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Title: The Quiet Game by Greg Iles ISBN: 0-451-18042-9 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 10 July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (142 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fast-paced Reading
Comment: Nothing gets in the way of the story in The Quiet Game, a suspenseful page-turner that keeps the pace through over 400 pages.
Penn Cage, a prosecutor from Houston and an author of legal thrillers, returns to his boyhood home in Natchez, Mississippi to help his daughter Annie recover from his wife's death. In an interview with an ambitious local journalist, he mentions the Del Payton case, a racial murder that has remained unsolved for thirty years.
Suddenly Cage finds himself in the midst of a storm of racial tensions, crime and political intrigue in which all the major suspects are playing The Quiet Game, a game of waiting to see who breaks first.
Greg Iles has done a wonderful job writing a book that is hard to put down. Not only is it well-plotted, but the characters are likable and the setting is well-established. The swamps of Natchez yield not only old grudges, but new insights about race relations as Cage works to bring the murderer to justice. Definitely a 5-star read.
Rating: 5
Summary: I wish there were more stars!
Comment:
Even though he's a popular author with a huge following and plenty of security, former Houston prosecutor Penn Cage is a haunted man. He's just lost his wife after a lengthy battle with cancer; he's being stalked by the brother of a man he successfully prosecuted and sent to death; and his young daughter sees her dead mother everywhere. After a particularly heart-wrenching experience at Disney World, he scoops his daughter into his arms and heads for the only place where he can find peace: HOME.
Home is Natchez, Mississippi.
Home is where his father, sixty-six year old Dr. Tom Cage, is still practicing down home medicine, complete with house calls and no HMO's. "My parents started life with nothing, and in a single generation, though hard work and sacrifice, lived what was once unapologetically called the American Dream."
Home is where his mother longs to help her son and her granddaughter heal. Peggy Cage is "...a girl who made the social journey from the 4-H Club to the Garden Club without forgetting her roots. She could take tea with royalty and commit no faux pas, yet just as easily twist the head off a banty hen, boil the bristles off a hog, or kill an angry copperhead."
Home is where the Cage's beloved family maid, Ruby Flowers, waits: "Ruby Flowers came to work for us in 1963 and, except for one life-threatening illness, never missed a single workday until arthritis forced her to slow down thirty years later."
Home is where Cage and Annie can find peace and recover from their loss.
Or is it?
"Natchez is unlike any place in America, existing almost outside time.....In some ways it isn't part of Mississippi at all....Natchez exists in a ripple of time that somehow eludes the homogenizing influence of the present."
Upon his arrival at the Cage home, Penn immediately suspects that something is seriously wrong. His father has been cashing in large CD's and cannot account for the money's whereabouts. When Penn finally figures out the reason, his determination to clear his father's name leads him into a hornet's nest of deceit, greed, and a 30-year old murder case.
Before the 559-page book ends, no one escapes unscathed. Penn's parents must relive a particularly difficult time in their lives. Penn's values and judgment are challenged to the extreme. He also has to deal with Olivia Marston, his long lost love and the unanswered questions surrounding his feelings for her. And, at the core of this story lies the underbelly of Natchez' racial history which is exposed in the most unflattering way possible.
The local police and the FBI enter the fray, making for a hair-raising, spine-tingling, thought-provoking read that doesn't let up from the first page until the last.
This was my first Greg Iles book, but I can promise you, it won't be my last. Iles has a gift for suspense, introspection and characterization like no other writer around today. He's been compared to John Grisham, but I think he's in a league of his own.
He's a young man and THE QUIET GAME is only his 4th novel. With any luck, we'll be hearing about Greg Iles for years to come.
Enjoy!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Detail
Comment: Out of all the Greg Iles books I've read so far, this one is definitely my favorite. The richness of the detail far outweigh his other books and really take you to the heart of the story. If you could only pick one Greg Iles book to read, this one should be it!
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Title: Mortal Fear by Greg Iles ISBN: 0451180410 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: 24 Hours by Greg Iles ISBN: 0451203593 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Black Cross by Greg Iles ISBN: 0451185196 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Dead Sleep by Greg Iles ISBN: 0451206525 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Spandau Phoenix by Greg Iles ISBN: 0451179803 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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