The Quiet Game

Greg Iles

ISBN 10: 0525937935 / ISBN 13: 9780525937937

Published by Dutton Adult, 1999

About this Item

NF/NF. First edition, first printing. Signed by author (with brief inscription) on title page. Mylar protected jacket. 433 pp. Seller Inventory # 25707

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Quiet Game

Publisher: Dutton Adult

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

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 now, in the aftermath of his wife's death, the grief-stricken father packs up his four-year-old daughter, Annie, and returns to his hometown in search of healing. But peace is not what he finds there.
Determined to save his father from a ruthless blackmailer, Penn stumbles over a link to the town's darkest secret: the thirty-year-old unsolved murder of a black Korean War veteran. But what drives him to act is the revelation that this haunting mystery is inextricably bound up with his own past. Under a blaze of national media attention, Penn reopens the case, only to find local records destroyed, the FBI file sealed, and the town closing ranks against him.
Penn joins forces with Caitlin Masters, a beautiful young newspaper publisher, on a quest that will lead from the bayous of the South to the highest reaches of the U.S. government. His need to right a terrible wrong pits him against the FBI, the powerful judge who nearly destroyed his family, and his most dangerous adversary: a woman he loved more than twenty years before, and who haunts him still.

About the Author:

Greg Iles is a graduate of the University of Mississippi and performed in the musical group Frankly Scarlet for several years before writing his first novel, Spandau Phoenix. He lives in Natchez, Mississippi, with his wife and two children.