The Quiet Game

It is always a pleasure to find a Sticky book – one of those that, once picked up, remains so difficult to put down that it seems to stick to your hands. “The Quiet Game” by Greg Iles is one of those.
Iles is a bestselling writer who lives in Natchez, Mississippi, and several of his books center around a bestselling writer who lives in the Deep South – Natchez, in fact. Hopefully, there the similarities end, since the high adventure his character endures would otherwise leave little time for real-life writing.
The story begins with Penn Cage returning to his parent’s home in Natchez. The fictional author has lost his wife to illness, and his young daughter is still painfully distraught over her mother’s death. Settling in, he finds time has changed some aspects of the old home town, but there are lingering reminders of the racial tension of earlier days.
The townsfolk consider him a celebrity of sorts – local boy turned novelist – and the widow of a man killed during the civil rights movement asks Penn’s assistance in solving the thirty-five year old case. He initially declines, believing some things best remain in the past.
He agrees to an interview with the attractive publisher of the local paper, who prints some inflammatory “off the record” comments, and before the ink has dried, he is knee-deep in a murder investigation.
From associates of the victim to members of law enforcement, everyone is playing “The Quiet Game,” holding secret truths close to the vest and saying nothing, knowing that a single revealing word might bring down the entire house of cards. Iles continually raises the stakes, and plays out “The Quiet Game” with the confidence of a card shark, turning up aces in the political back room dealings of the old south.

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