The Silent Corner
When nowhere is safe…The start of a gripping new thriller series featuring rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk, from the master of suspense and New York Times #1 bestselling author.‘I very much need to be dead’These are the chilling words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. Now his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, is determined to learn the truth, no matter what.People of talent, seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. Jane will give up everything to find out why.Her enemies are devoted enough to exterminate anyone in their way. But Jane is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.
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First published in the USA in 2017 by Bantam Books,
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Copyright © Dean Koontz 2017
Excerpt from The Whispering Room by Dean Koontz
Copyright © Dean Koontz 2017
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To Gerda. You rock me.
The major advances in civilization â¦
all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
âALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
I look down into all that wasp-nest or bee-hive
⦠and witness their wax-laying and honey-making,
and poison-brewing, and choking by sulphur.
âTHOMAS CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus
Contents
The Silent Corner: Those who are truly off the grid and cannot be tracked by any technology, yet are able to move about freely and use the Internet, are said to be in the silent corner.
JANE HAWK WOKE in the cool dark and for a moment could not remember where she had gone to sleep, only that as always she was in a queen- or king-size bed and that her pistol lay under the pillow on which the head of a companion would have rested had she not been traveling alone. Diesel growl and friction drone of eighteen tires on asphalt reminded her that she was in a motel, near the interstate, and it was ⦠Monday.
With a soft-green numerical glow, the bedside clock reported the bad but not uncommon news that it was 4:15 in the morning, too early for her to have gotten eight hours of sack time, too late to imagine that she might fall back to sleep.
She lay for a while, thinking about what had been lost. She had promised herself to stop dwelling on the bitter past. She spent less time on it now than before, which would have counted as progress if recently she hadnât turned to thoughts of what was yet to be lost.
