The Quiet Game
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (966 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001JT6FAK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 591 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Must Read! WOW! I have read several of Greg Iles' books before this one and really enjoyed his writing, so I decided to give the Penn Cage series a tryI am so glad I did! This book had me captivated by the end of the first chapter. I couldn't put it down and ordered book #2 (Turning Angel) before I was even finished. I have a feeling I am going to fly through the rest of this seriesexcellent reading f. What is it about Mississippi that creates such epic storytellers What is it about Mississippi that creates such epic storytellers. I have an image of them staring off into the Delta with hundred yard stares, some dangling cigars from downturned mouths. There's been so many great writers raised there. And, now, we have another. I just finished book five of this series, and am starting his earlier work. I have entered a new version of Yoknapatawpha county,. Most excellent in every way. What a well-written page turner! I've not read Greg Iles before, but I sure will read the rest of his series about Penn. This book will captivate you from page one, It begins with a widower who is with his small daughter in line at Disney World, trying to recapture good feelings about the last time they were there with his wife. Every page after this brings you in to this man's life: his pa
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. --Dick Adler. 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. 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. Then there's the unsolved 1968 murder case of a black man, which Cage insists on reopening with the help of an attractive, ambitious
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.. Penn Cage is no stranger to death. 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. But what drives him to act is the revelation that this haunting mystery is inextricably bound up in his own past. His need to right a terrible wrong pits him against the FBI, the powerful judge who nearly destoyed his