Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.3
Points
27.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
176966
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
564
Points per Page
0.047872
Description
Returning to his childhood home of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage, a Houston prosecutor-turned-novelist, is stunned to discover that his own family is trapped in a web of intrigue and danger involving the highest levels of government.