Strong writing but incredibly racist
This is my second Greg Iles book and I enjoyed the writing in both immensely. However, as engaging as they were, both were so rife with racial epithets and offensive stereotypes directed at African Americans that they were sometimes difficult to get through. I understand that Iles is trying to convey the sentiment of whites in the South and that racist views are often an element of said sentiment. But the racism was so glaring and so gratuitous that I cant help but think that Iles was really conveying his own hate-filled beliefs. If this is how most Mississipians think, its a sad testimony.

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