The Quiet Game |
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| Author:
| Iles, Greg |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7838-9300-6 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2001 |
| Publisher: | Thorndike Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $28.95 |
Book Description:
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Penn Cage is no stranger to death. As a Houston prosecutor he sent sixteen men to death row, and watched seven of them die. But after his wife's death, the grief-stricken father packs up his four-year-old daughter, Annie, and goes back to his hometown in search of healing. Natchez, Mississippi, is a city of old money and older sins, where passion, power, and racial tensions lurk behind elegant facades. After twenty years away, Penn is stunned to find his father in the clutches of a...
More DescriptionPenn Cage is no stranger to death. As a Houston prosecutor he sent sixteen men to death row, and watched seven of them die. But after his wife's death, the grief-stricken father packs up his four-year-old daughter, Annie, and goes back to his hometown in search of healing. Natchez, Mississippi, is a city of old money and older sins, where passion, power, and racial tensions lurk behind elegant facades. After twenty years away, Penn is stunned to find his father in the clutches of a ruthless blackmailer. Determined to save him, Penn uncovers a link to the town's darkest secret: a thirty-year-old unsolved murder . . .