The Quiet Game

The Quiet Game
by Greg Iles

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Author: Greg Iles
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-07-01
ISBN: 0451180429
Number of pages: 640
Publisher: Signet
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ISBN13: 9780451180421
Condition: New
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Book Review: Every Weird Story Plot Dragged This Book Out
Summary: 2 Stars

This book took forever to finish and every weird story plot was included to help drag it out. Greg Iles plays judge and jury on every character in this book and it is sickening.

Penn Cage's entire immediate family is completely without any fault or blemish. That is a fantasy in and of itself.

Penn's old girlfriend is painted as a harlot who dumped him after she is raped repeatedly and gets pregnant because as a teenager she "teased" the viscous murderer and rapist who repeated raped her when he drove her home after she was drinking. Penn's old girlfriend is then painted as a dirt bag "mother" when instead of aborting the rapist's baby, she put the child up for adoption. The dirt bag part comes in when the daughter illegally gains employment in the adoptive lawyer's office, ILLEGALLY steals her birth certificate and then repeatedly harasses the bio mother hoping for some maternal love. Mr. Penn can't seem to understand why his old girl friend (bio mom) did NOT want to reminded of her repeated rape which she did when looking at this girl so Penn painted her as an awful woman unlike his sainted dead wife and new girlfriend and mother. Further, Penn Cage blames this rape victim for her father (a lawyer) suing Penn's father (a doctor) for malpractice in part for revenge against Penn for getting his daughter pregnant because his daughter never told anyone who the "daddy" was. Penn Cage women do not "deserve" to be raped no matter if as a young drunk adult teenager she teased the vicious man who raped her and she had no obligation to tell her father anything even if Penn's father was sued. Medical lawsuits happen all the time but apparently Penn Cage's father was such a saint no one ever bothered to sue him for malpractice despite Mississippi for years being malpractice heaven.

Instead of condemning the adopted daughter's scheming to work in the adoptive lawyer's office, stealing birth records out of this office, and harassing her bio mother when she tracks her down, Penn blackmails his ex girlfriend, Levi, into paying for her entire college education on the threat of his spilling her rape secret. And to make matters worse, Penn Cage then "spares" the girl the pain of knowing she was the product of a repeated rape and that her bio dad was also a murderer. So let me get this right. It is just fine to out the bio mother who by LAW has the right to remain anonymous and to blackmail her into paying for the college of a child she could have aborted but but it is not fine to out the bio father to spare the daughter any emotional pain. Hello, Mr. Penn, has more money than God - let him pay for her college if he feels so guilty over her being adopted out. Blaming a rape victim for rejecting her daughter and blackmailing her for not feeling maternal and admonishing her for getting angry when constantly harassed by this bio child is NOT right.

And Penn Cage then gives a big pass to the actual murderer who is a black man. Ike was caught with a ton of drugs and he is told either kill a black man and also get a job on the police force or go to prison for life. He choose to kill.

So Penn Cage says that a young woman who teased a man and gets raped, has the child and rejects the child as an adult who illegally tracks her down deserves to be blackmailed but a drug selling killer gets a pass.

This book is supposed to be about a 30 year old murder of a black man but Greg Iles "The Quiet Game" is so politically correct and biased it is nauseating.

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Summary of The Quiet Game

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

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

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