The Devil's Punchbowl

Greg Iles was born in 1960 in Germany where his father ran the US Embassy medical clinic during the height of the Cold War. After graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1983 he performed for several years with the rock band Frankly Scarlet and is currently member of the band The Rock Bottom Remainders. His first novel, "Spandau Phoenix, " a thriller about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess, was published in 1993 and became a "New York Times" bestseller. Iles went on to write ten bestselling novels, including "Third Degree," "True Evil," "Turning Angel," "Blood Memory," "The Footprints of God," and "24 Hours" (released by Sony Pictures as "Trapped," with full screenwriting credit for Iles). He lives in Natchez, Mississippi.