The Quiet Game
by Greg Iles
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Author: Greg IlesEdition: Paperback
Published: 2000-07-01
ISBN: 0451180429
Number of pages: 592
Publisher: Signet
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Book Review: Very entertaining
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first novel of this author that I have read and it was soo good and entertaining that I am going to read more stories by Greg Illes. Like in case of John Grisham, after reading his first novel, The Firm, I wanted more and I have later read all books that Grisham ever wrote.
The Quiet Game is really hard to put down. The characters are well developed and the story gripping until the very end. It is definitely a five star and I highly recommend it to everybody else. Another book that I recently read and highly recommend is The Burden of Proof
Summary of The Quiet Game
Is there space in the overcrowded courtroom for one more writer of sharp, very suspenseful legal thrillers? Yes--if that writer is Greg Iles, who has proven in such varied efforts as Black Cross, Mortal Fear, and Spandau Phoenix that he knows how to squeeze the last drop of suspense out of all sorts of situations.Iles immediately makes us feel both sympathy and empathy for his glossy hero, Penn Cage--a former ace Texas prosecutor turned suspense novelist whose sales are up there in the John Grisham Himalayan range.
Trying to cope with the recent death of his wife, Cage takes his 5-year-old daughter to Florida's Disney World, where the child sadly sees visions of her mother everywhere in the fantasy-filled environment. Wouldn't a trip to his parents' stately home in Natchez be more soothing for all concerned? Wrong, as it turns out--and before Cage can catch his breath, he's deeply involved in several dangerous matters. His father, a dedicated doctor, is being blackmailed for a past mistake in judgment, and a powerful judge (who just happens to be the father of Penn's high school sweetheart) has a nasty personal agenda of his own. Then there's the unsolved 1968 murder case of a black man, which Cage insists on reopening with the help of an attractive, ambitious newspaper publisher.
Iles does for Natchez what John Berendt did for Savannah in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, creating a gothic Southern landscape where elegance and depravity walk hand in hand. --Dick Adler
When former prosecutor Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, he doesn't find the peace he desperately craves. He finds that his own father is being blackmailed by a corrupt ex-cop. And when Penn investigates, he uncovers a murderous secret-and the small town's violent past....
"Rivals John Grisham's Best."-Library Journal
"Grabs You Fast And Keeps You Glued."- Entertainment Weekly
"Will Spellbind Readers."-Boston Herald
More praise for The Quiet Game:
"Riveting. [Iles] adroitly mixes the fiery tempers of the late 60's with the smoldering passions of the present-day south...A major talent."-Denver Post
"Suspenseful." -Kirkus Reviews
"Engrossing."-Publishers Weekly
"The pace is frenetic, the fear and paranoia palpable and the characters heartbreakingly honest."-The Cleveland Plain Dealer
When recently widowed Penn Cage leaves Houston with his young daughter and returns to his hometown seeking peace, he finds something very different. Natchez, Mississippi, is the jewel of the antebellum South, a city of old secrets and older money. Upon learning that his father is being blackmailed, Penn finds himself reopening the most highly charged murder case in the town's history, searching for the evidence that could bring down the judge who nearly destroyed his father years ago. As the town closes ranks against him, Penn is joined by Caitlin Masters, a young newspaper publisher, on a deadly quest to find answers to one of the darkest chapters of American history, a quest that pits them against the FBI, a band of brothers still fiercely guarding the tainted legacy of J. Edgar Hoover. But Penn's most dangerous journey must be made alone--into the abiding mystery of his own past, into the mind and heart of a woman he lost twenty years ago, and who still has the power to save or destroy him.
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