The Quiet Game
by Greg Iles

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• ISBN13: 9780451180421
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Book Review: Without a doubt, the BEST legal-thriller I have read
Summary: 5 Stars

Penn Cage, a former attorney-turned-successful author is returning back to his home of Natchez, Mississippi after the death of his wife, partly for himself, and partly for his daughter who could use the sight of her loving Grandparents to keep her mind off Mommy. This visit will be nothing like Penn had in mind, and everything that Penn never wanted. Within just a couple days, an interview in the local paper takes on a life of its own, and someone makes an attempt on his life. But this is far from the ONLY problem that Penn has at this moment. He is also working on a problem that is slowly ruining his Father, and by itself could possibly damage beyond repair, his own career. All of this is set around minor sub-plots that Iles manages to treat like major ones, all without sacrificing the main storyline. Is Race relations still a problem in Natchez? Who benefits from digging up a long-lost racial killing in 1968, and who wants it buried forever? The answers may surprise you in this incredibly original and always entertaining story. All at once, Greg Iles manages to place this story in league with every major Legal-Thriller author in print, and better than most of them, too. If you find Grisham to be the leader of these types of books, I invite you to discover the story that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Grisham IS amazingly over-rated. If you like this particular genre, then find out for yourself why Greg Iles is one of THE greatest thriller authors writing today, and 'The Quiet Game' really shows this Gifted Storyteller at the top of his form.

Do yourself one incredible favor: Give this a shot and totally ignore the negative reviews. It is quite literally a book to savor and put aside to re-read in the near future. The plot is explosive and amazingly complicated without getting lost or impossible to follow. You'll find characters that are as flawed as anyone and more than 2-dimensional, too--in short, you will find yourself wondering more than once whether or not this story is fiction or is Greg Iles drawing upon some secret never-before-heard nasty story from his hometown...? All in all, this story is without a doubt, the BEST legal-thriller I have ever read, and I have read them ALL. I hate to raise expectations so much that it may be impossible for this book to live up to, but for ME, I can honestly say that it gave me one incredibly amazing ride of emotions for the 4 days it took me to finish (which is lightning fast for a guy like me). Not just good, but absolutely fantastic. I now look less forward to Greg returning to Historical Fiction as in his first two novels, and more towards another venture into the murder/mystery/legal arena that he has come to succeed in as well as ANYONE.

Summary of The Quiet Game

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

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