Title: The Quiet Game (Penn Cage Book 1)Publisher: Penguin Group
Publication Date: July 2000
Genre: Thriller
Pages: 640
I first became aware of Greg Iles writing with the book Spandau Phoenix (1992), and I've been a fan ever since. All I can say is that his writing style has improved over the years, and that is something I did not think was possible.
The Quiet Game is the first book in his "Penn Cage" series. Penn Cage is a district attorney from Houston. He's sent sixteen men to death row and watched seven of them die. However, after the death of his wife, he leaves his job behind and takes his daughter back to his home town, Natchez Mississippi.
When he gets home, he becomes involved in stopping a blackmailer who has had Penn's father (a prominent doctor) under his thumb. Penn unknowingly ignites a powder keg in a small town when he sounds off on an old murder case with racial implications. With the aid of a news paper journalist, Caitlin Masters, Penn is setting out to right the wrongs of his home towns past. Along the way he will butt heads with the FBI, a powerful judge who nearly destroyed his family, and a woman he loved more than 20 years ago.
There are enough twists and turns in this book to keep even the most seasoned thriller reader on their toes. Just when you think you have everything figured out, here comes a twist from left field to knock you back a few steps, and trust me, Greg Iles stays three step ahead of you the whole way.
The other novels in this series are:
1) The Quiet Game
2) Turning Angel
3) The Devil's Punchbowl
4) Unwritten Laws
5 out of 5 Stars
Re Readable factor of 3 out of 5
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