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Summary: Another excellent Iles story.
Review: After reading this book, the fourth I've read by this author, I now rank him as one of my favorite. When I first read the synopsis, this book didn't excite me. I guess I was a little tired of the civil rights murder solved 30 years later plotline. Now I wish I hadn't waited so long. Iles writes another brilliant story full of twists and turns and interesting characters.Penn Cage returns home after his wife has died and gets caught up in the murder of a black man from 30 years ago. Cage believes the killer was his ex-girlfriend's father, Leo Martson. Of course there are numerous twists and turns involving the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, and crooked cops. In a story with so many twists and turns, Iles sometimes leaves out character development. Caitlin Masters is a newspaper publisher who helps Cage. She starts out with a bang but really is ignored at the end. Most of the truth about the murder is revealed before the courtroom finale, leaving little to be resolved at the end. This book is a lot like Mortal Fear and nothing like 24 hours. I am about to read Dead Sleep which I am sure will be another excellent book.
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Summary: Great storytelling.
Review: 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.
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Summary: A Hard to Put Down Page Turner
Review: I decided to read "The Quiet Game" through a recommendation from a friend, and I am so glad that I took the great advice. I was totally captivated by this story and I had a hard time putting it down. Penn Cage, a famous lawyer and novelist, decides to return to his home in Missisippi with his young daughter after the untimely death of his wife. He teams up with newspaper editor Caitlin Masters to investigate a 30 year old civil rights murder that has been left unsolved. The suspense of solving this crime kept me turning the pages all night long. There are so many plot twists and turns that I just had to find out what would happen next. The only complaint I do have is with the last quarter of the book where Caitlin is hardly heard from at all. I really liked the character and I wished she would have been partners with Penn all the way to the end. The book is well written with strong characters, action packed, and I was sorry that it had to end. I plan to read more books by Greg Iles because of how much I enjoyed this one and I think his writing style is excellent. I would highly recommend reading this book to everybody.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: I was completely unaware with the type of carnage that happened in the South during the early 60s. While reading this book I was surprised as well as angered, at the same time I learned a lot things, I learned about individual feelings, I became aware of the mind set of the people during that time, and I was taken aback by the emotions that families endured and the way Greg Iles has presented the book is quite interesting and insightful. This book brought my attention to something that I normally overlook in today's environment. I really liked the way Greg Iles portait the true spirit of justice and he proved to his readers that regardless of power money and influence, justice is blind and it is always served. Go ahead and read it.
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Summary: GREAT BOOK!
Review: Loved it, couldn't put it down, he's a talented writer that keeps the pace moving enough to maintain reader interest, and enough so that you are sorry to see the book end. Looking forward to more from him!
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Summary: Great Detail
Review: My father picked up this book at the airport when he had nothing to read on the flight. By the end of the trip he was done and I had to read it myself. It was an exceptional read and I have loaned it out over and over with the same response. This book turned me on to Greg Iles!
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Summary: Great Detail
Review: 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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Summary: Fantastic read--a super spellbinder!!!
Review: So far, I've read The Footprints of God, 24 hours, Sleep No More and The quiet Game. This last one has been my favorite. A well-rounded mystery with interesting characters. The story does not give itself away. It keeps you on the edge of your seat. I read this book in a couple of days and had a hard time putting it down. I'm now looking forward to getting my hands on Mr Iles other books. Worth the read!
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Summary: Not as good as 24 Hours
Review: Some seven months after his wife's death, best-selling author and former prosecuting attorney Penn Cage returns with his four-year-old daughter to his home town of Natchez, Mississippi. He manages almost at once to stir up long-moldering racial tensions in the small town with a chance remark he makes to an ambitious and unusually persuasive journalist, the braless insubstantially shirted Caitlin Masters. Penn soon finds himself investigating the thirty-year-old murder he had mouthed off about, but many people--among them the director of the FBI and Natchez's most fearsome resident, the corrupt Judge Leo Marston--would prefer that the 1968 car bombing of black factory worker Del Payton remain unsolved.
The plot of Greg Iles's The Quiet Game is complex, and its principal characters are three dimensional, but the book did not pack the emotional wallop I expected of it after reading Iles's 24 Hours. It may be that the story is slowed down by unnecessary detail. For example, describing Penn's arrival at the site of the murder, the parking lot of a battery plant, Iles launches into a history of the factory: "The dark skeleton of the Triton Battery plant materializes to our right as Ike turns onto Gate Street, then right again into a parking lot lighted by the pink glow of mercury vapor. The Triton Battery Company came to Natchez in 1936 to build batteries for Pullman rail cars. In 1940 they retooled the line to manufacture batteries for diesel submarines. After the war it was truck batteries, marine batteries, whatever fit the changing market. The last I heard, Triton was using its ancient equipment to produce motorcycle batteries for European manufacturers." But while slower than it might be and longer than it perhaps should be, The Quiet Game remains a decent read. Fans of courtroom dramas in particular will enjoy the book's denouement.
Debra Hamel -- book-blog reviews
Author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece
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Summary: another great Greg Iles book
Review: The Quiet Game rivals the intensity and suspense of Spandau Phoenix and Mortal Fear. A leading attorney turned successful author returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, and gets drawn into investigating what appears to be an unsolved civil rights murder that occurred during his childhood. When he begins to discover that the truth of that murder has major ramifications for the present state of affairs in his hometown as well as his personal past and his psyche, the plot of The Quiet Game reaches the high level of Iles' best books. He does a nice job of blending historical threads with familiar experience to create suspenseful fiction. Character development and plot are balanced nicely, and the suspense and the conclusion are wholly satisfactory.
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