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He also wrote the script for the movie 24 hour, which eventually was renamed as trapped. Greg iles spent most of his youth in natchez, mississippi. The devils punchbowl is a knockout thriller thats just the right degree of chilly to combat the dog days of summeriless knack for perfectly integrating character and plot could serve as a masters class for other authors the dallas morning news. Narration for the devils punchbowl was irritating and sounded too fake and extreme. His first novel, the thriller spandau phoenix, became the first of fourteen new york times bestsellers. In 2011, iles was involved in a car accident and had to have part of a leg amputated. Ive had my problems with greg iles books in the past, but one thing i can always say about them is that theyre enormously readable and gripping from beginning to end.
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Jul 07, 2009 book was very good and kept me on the edge of my seat as did the rest of greg iles books. I have listened to all of the greg iles books narrated by the fabulous jeff harding. Some parts were so explicit i had to hurry up and read thru. The devils punchbowl by greg iles is the third installment in the series of penn cage books this novel was published on july 7, 2009. But as mayor of his hometown natchez, mississippi penn will face his most dangerous threat.