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Black Cross

Black Cross

by Greg Iles

1995FictionFiction in SpanishGermanyGreat BritainHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
4.0
Open Library
Open Library

First lines

It's odd how death often marks a beginning rather than an end.

It's odd how death often marks a beginning rather than an end.

Themes & subjects

FictionFiction in SpanishGermanyGreat BritainHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Secret service
First published 1995

Setting

GermanyGreat Britain

About the author

Greg Iles
Greg Iles

8 April 1960 – 15 August 2025

Greg Iles was born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany, where his physician father ran the U.S. Embassy Medical Clinic during the height of the Cold War. Iles spent his youth in Natchez, Mississippi, and graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1983. Iles spent several years as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter in the band Frankly Scarlet. He quit the band after he was married and began working on his first novel, *Spandau Phoenix*, a thriller about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess. Primarily set in the Deep South, his later novels have been made into films, translated into more than 20 languages, and published in more than 35 countries worldwide. In 2011, Iles was serious…

Author

Greg Iles

First published

1995

Pages

556

Read time

≈ 14h

Editions

13

Languages

English, Spanish

Publisher

Signet

ISBN

9781423331827

Where to buy

TR
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