Penn Cage · Book 1
The Quiet Game
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 516
- ISBN-13
- 9780340686034
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Quiet Game, dated 1999, is the first book in the Penn Cage series by Greg Iles, running 516 pages. It introduces Penn as a former Houston prosecutor returning to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, who becomes mayor and finds himself pulled into the town's buried civil-rights-era history.
Its place in Penn Cage
The Quiet Game is book 1 in the Penn Cage series. It is followed by Turning Angel. See the full Penn Cage reading order.
Penn Cage is a former Houston prosecutor who returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, and becomes mayor, only to keep getting pulled into the town's buried history -- civil-rights-era murders, Ku Klux Klan violence, and the entangled loyalties of families (including his own father's) who lived through it. Greg Iles began the series in 1999 with The Quiet Game, then set it aside for a decade to write standalone thrillers before returning to Penn in 2005's Turning Angel and 2009's The Devil's Punchbowl. The…
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