Great suspense up to the very end

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	• Silence (Otto Penzler Book) Thomas Perry Harvest Books, 2008 - 468 pages average customer review:based on 33 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

"Silence" is Golden

I exerted self-discipline for as long as I could by letting "Silence" sit on my desk. I knew that once I started it, nothing else would capture my attention - my artwork would suffer, my cat family would be neglected, and no one would get supper on time. I was right - when I picked it up, it has been difficult for me to set it down for anything. The character development in this book is incredible - both the good guys and the bad guys. I've always had sympathy for Perry's killers (his antiheroes) as well as for his heroes. This is as true with "Silence" as it was with "Butcher's Boy" and "Sleeping Dogs." Sylvie and Paul are amazing. I am delighted he did not let as much time pass since writing his previous book (the also awesome "Nightlife"). I look forward to Perry's next tome.

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The usual disturbing formula

Silence follows Thomas Perry's usual plotline: a good, innocent (but lucky) person has escaped from an evil villain and gone into hiding. Now, the person has been found or needs to be found and must thwart the evil villain at last. It's a good formula that keeps the reader involved from start to finish. The villain and his henchmen are always killers with no conscience and a little bit crazy to boot. The good person always has help from a cynical but kind expert on staying alive. This formula worked particularly well in the Jane Whitefield novels until she got married and ruined the premise. It works very well in this novel also.

But I find that I don't take the same enjoyment from these novels that I did in the early days of Jane Whitefield. Few of the characters feel any genuine human emotion: they all manipulate each other and view life as a vast chess game with all the real kindness and spontaneity removed. Although it's a very good book, well-plotted and well-written, I think I'll skip the next one and move on to authors with less cynical views of the world.

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This is a winner

Much better than the last outing. Some updated views of hiding fugitives and the consequences. How come this isn't Jane Whitefield?

Hard to put down!

I haven't read any of Perry's earlier novels, but Silence is a terrific page-turner. Each character is distinctly drawn, the plot imaginative and riveting. HIs attention to detail makes the story come alive. Although more than 400 pages, I read it in three days.

Great suspense up to the very end

Thomas Perry has a wonderful, very human hero in Jack Till. The ins and outs of his locating Wendy, whom he taught how to hide 6 years before, are true to life. The story gets more complicated with a married pair of assassins whom we shouldn't like but, because of their own human traits, grow on the reader. Lots of people end up dead! The author flushes out the characters so that they are more than one dimensional, like the killers who love to dance. Great book!

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