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 He seeks justice in a
town where a thirty-year-old crime lies buried - and where everyone
plays...The Quiet Game
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.
Natchez, Mississippi, is
the jewel of the antebellum South, a city of old money and older sins,
where passion, power, and racial tensions seethe beneath its elegant
facade. After twenty years away, Penn is stunned to find his own family
trapped in a web of intrigue and danger.
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. His crusade for justice will ultimately
lead him into a packed Mississippi courtroom, where he fights a battle
that could end a decades-old silence and force the truth to be spoken at
last.
A riveting story of
conspiracy, murder, and hard-won justice, The Quiet Game lays
bare one of the most shameful chapters in American history by solving
the abiding mystery of one man's past. It is Greg Iles at his
unparalleled best.
Extraordinary Praise
for The Quiet Game
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"The pace is
frenetic, the fear and paranoia palpable, and the characters
heartbreakingly honest. Iles strikes not one false note."
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Here is a major talent
strutting his considerable stuff."
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The Denver Post
"It's a tribute
to Iles' flair for characterization that this capacious thriller
grabs you fast and keeps you glued."
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Entertainment Weekly (A-) "The
shady old antebellum jewel city of Natchez becomes a character in
its own right. The climatic unveiling in a crowded Mississippi
courtroom of citywide racist skullduggery will spellbind
readers."
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Boston Herald
"The first great
page-turner of the fall might well be The Quiet Game...a
gripping, beautifully crafted tale of murder and revenge that would make
James Lee Burke or even Pat Conroy proud. [It] is a brilliant mystery
and much, much more. This is storytelling at its absolute best, a tale
of near-epic status to be savored as well as enjoyed."
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Providence Sunday Journal
"The plot turns and
twists with surprise after surprise, and the culminating courtroom drama
and conclusion are inventive and satisfying. His characters demonstrate,
time after time, how we are haunted by the past, by bygone desires,
failures and courageous moments. [His] mastery of the Southern setting
rings with the truth of his own experience."
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New Orleans Times-Picayune
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