The Quiet Game | 
 enlarge | Author: Greg Iles
Publisher: Signet
Category: Book
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Pages: 592
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Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.8
ISBN: 0451180429
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780451180421
ASIN: 0451180429
Publication Date: July 1, 2000
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Amazon.com 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
Product Description
When former prosecutor Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, he doesn't find the peace he desperately craves. He finds that his own father is being blackmailed by a corrupt ex-cop. And when Penn investigates, he uncovers a murderous secret-and the small town's violent past....
"Rivals John Grisham's Best."-Library Journal
"Grabs You Fast And Keeps You Glued."- Entertainment Weekly
"Will Spellbind Readers."-Boston Herald
More praise for The Quiet Game:
"Riveting. [Iles] adroitly mixes the fiery tempers of the late 60's with the smoldering passions of the present-day south...A major talent."-Denver Post
"Suspenseful." -Kirkus Reviews
"Engrossing."-Publishers Weekly
"The pace is frenetic, the fear and paranoia palpable and the characters heartbreakingly honest."-The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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 Greg Iles Sets High Expectations August 5, 2008
This is the first book I've ever read by Greg Iles and I thought it was a gripping novel. I enjoyed it from beginning to end. So much, in fact, that I fear none of his other novels will measure up to this. Time will tell.
If you've never read any of Greg Iles novels, I guarantee that this one will bring you back for more by this author.
Very entertaining July 16, 2008
This is the first novel of this author that I have read and it was soo good and entertaining that I am going to read more stories by Greg Illes. Like in case of John Grisham, after reading his first novel, The Firm, I wanted more and I have later read all books that Grisham ever wrote.
The Quiet Game is really hard to put down. The characters are well developed and the story gripping until the very end. It is definitely a five star and I highly recommend it to everybody else. Another book that I recently read and highly recommend is The Burden of Proof
6 stars !!!! July 9, 2008
If only I could add a 6th star, I would. Greg Iles is by far my favorite author. This story was good -- very, very good. But having a writer who knows how to weave a story and keep you guessing page after page -- now that is TALENT !! I fashion myself a very difficult to please reader and an amateur sleuth. If I can figure out who-done-it before the last page I consider the author a disappointment. This book was NO disappointment. I thought I had it figured out 6 different times. WRONG !! Mr. Iles kept me guessing until the very end. I wish I hadnt read Turning Angel first because now I feel as though I've lost a friend because Penn Cage won't be waiting for me when I get home from work. I have to agree with another reviewer -- my only criticism of Mr. Iles is that he doesn't write fast enough. I NEED ANOTHER PENN CAGE NOVEL !!
 Stereotypical and cliched June 21, 2008
I bought this book for my Kindle because I'd read previous books by Greg Iles that were moderately entertaining. And this one got user raves, which is usually fairly dependable. But this book is seriously schlocky. It's actually borderline racist in places--there's one section where he talks about the "different smell" that black people have! I really have a hard time imagining that the 175 reviewers on Amazon are so ignorant that a sentence like that would go unnoticed. The characters are not only cliched, they're actively mean in this very subtle, assumed way: a hundred pages in, I felt kind of dirty, the same way you do when you're in an awkward social situation and someone tells a racist joke? I don't know how else to describe it. It was just offensive. I want to delete it off my kindle, actually, and feel like a sucker for buying it in the first place.
I'm sure you could make some argument that the author is only "portraying" the "New South" and perhaps revealing its hypocrisies through the main character. I would love to give Iles the benefit of the doubt on that. The problem is, I really can't empathize with this character at all; someone so selfish and classist and racist is not someone I can get behind, hero or anti-hero; and it didn't seem to me that Penn Cage was being portrayed as an anti-hero.
Furthermore, the book was kinda slow.
I like crappy but entertaining books as much as anyone; but if you're a reasonably well-educated person who likes thrills and entertainment, skip it. Go look up Michael Monroe's two hardboiled detective novels set in North Carolina if you want well-written, sensitive studies about race and class with an actual plot; or, even better, check out Pellecanos.
Another great Greg Iles read March 5, 2008
THE QUIET GAME is a richly-written, multi-layered thriller, as all Greg Iles books are, with Natchez as the cauldron & politics & law enforcement as the fire, with deceit, conspiracy & blackmail for flavoring. Lawyer-turned-author Penn Cage returns with an aching heart & his daughter, after years & careers away, only to find his parents under threat. What follows is pure Greg Iles. This author has created a likable hero of ordinary proportions, with extraordinary skills, perceptions & courage, & a tale that's worth every minute of your time. I'm a great fan of Greg Iles.
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