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Book Reviewed by:This article relates to Turning Angel
Greg Iles was
born in Germany in 1960, where
his father ran the US Embassy
Medical Clinic during the height
of the Cold War. He spent his
youth in Natchez, Mississippi,
and graduated from the
University of Mississippi in
1983; followed by several years
playing music in the band
"Frankly Scarlet."
The year after he was married,
he gigged on the road for 50
weeks out of 52, and realized
that this lifestyle was simply
not sustainable with a
family. He quit the band and
began working eighteen hours a
day on his first novel,
Spandau Phoenix, a thriller
about Nazi war criminal Rudolf
Hess.
When Greg sold this manuscript,
he left the music business to
complete the book. Spandau
Phoenix was published in
1993 and became the first of his
eleven New York Times
bestsellers to date - the latest
of which is True Evil (2006).
Useful link: On his
website Iles gives advice on
what order to read his books;
books that are likely to appeal
more to male readers than
female, and vice versa; and also
offers a warning note regarding
which of his books are particularly unsuitable for teenage readers.
This "beyond the book article" relates to Turning Angel. It originally ran in January 2006 and has been updated for the
November 2006 paperback edition.
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