Thursday Thirllers: Greg Iles
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| Thu, 09-08-2005 - 7:26am |
Was browsing for a new author to bring to you and found this one. Has anyone read any of his works? I think I'm going to add a few to my TBR list- how about you?
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. Greg spent 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 eight New York Times bestsellers.
http://www.gregiles.com/web_pages/site_entry.htm


I LOVE Greg Iles. I think I've read everything he's written except Blood Memory. My favorite remains his first book - Spandau Phoenix. ONe of my friends came back from a beach trip years ago with Spandau Phoenix and told me I had to read it. I've been hooked ever since. I've only found one of his stories (24 Hours) to be a bit predictable. The rest have truly been thrillers!
Hope you enjoy him as much as I have.
Cindy :)
I've read several of his books, including the most recent: Blood Memory. It was very engrossing, but also rather painful to read. It deals with incest & repressed memories, among other things. But it was a very good read, and I would definitely recommend his books.
Liz
Liz