The Quiet Game - Hardcover

Iles, Greg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0783892993 ISBN 13: 9780783892993

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 2000

Synopsis

Penn Cage is no stranger to death. As a Houston prosecutor he sent sixteen men to death row, and watched seven of them die. But after his wife's death, the grief-stricken father packs up his four-year-old daughter, Annie, and goes back to his hometown in search of healing. Natchez, Mississippi, is a city of old money and older sins, where passion, power, and racial tensions lurk behind elegant facades. After twenty years away, Penn is stunned to find his father in the clutches of a ruthless blackmailer. Determined to save him, Penn uncovers a link to the town's darkest secret: a thirty-year-old unsolved murder . . .

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Review

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

About the Author

Greg Iles was born in 1960 in Germany. He founded the band Frankly Scarlet, plays guitar for the Rock Bottom Remainders, and is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Blood Memory and 24 Hours. He lives in Natchez, Mississippi.

Edition details

• Publisher: G K Hall & Co
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0783892993
• ISBN 13: 9780783892993
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 720