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	• Silence Thomas Perry Harcourt, 2007 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 28 reviews view larger image
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"Sound of Silence"

SILENCE by Thomas Perry drives home the penalty of hiding behind a veil of silence and keeps readers turning the pages. Wendy Harper is aided by newly retired homicide detective, Jack Till to disappear into a new life after a friend dies and she is badly beaten.
The killer must find her and close the books before her knowledge can surface. Using the bat and torn blouse from her attack, he draws her from hiding. Innocents die to protect Wendy.
Jack struggles to both protect Wendy and prove to an antagonistic DA the innocence of Wendy's former partner and lover who had been arrested for her murder.
A thriller/romance, SILENCE doesn't allow the reader time to breathe.
Nash Black, author of WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS and SINS OF THE FATHERS.

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Stop Analyzing and Enjoy!

One of the best suspense novels ever. Sit back and enjoy. I challenge you to put this book down. One terrific read. Practically read it in one sitting. My first Thomas Perry novel and a winner it certainly is.

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Misplaced Identity

Originally released in 1982, Thomas Perry's "The Butcher's Boy" became a cult classic - the tale of a steely-eyed assassin double-crossed and out for revenge. And while a couple of follow-on efforts didn't quite do it for me ("Sleeping Dogs", "Pursuit"), the cynically dark humor and credible suspense is back with full impact in "Silence", a well-crafted and highly original crime yarn proving again that when it comes to contract killers, Perry knows his craft.

Jack Till is the formulaic SoCal ex-cop making ends meet as a private detective. Six years prior, Till helped Wendy Harper, the partner in an up-and-coming LA restaurant, disappear after she barely escaped a brutal attempted murder. But now, Wendy's ex-partner Eric is indicted for her murder, framed in an apparent attempt to bring Wendy back to the surface, and Jack Till must find Wendy to prove Eric's innocence. This is no easy task since Till took extraordinary steps to hide Wendy, insuring that no one - including himself - could ever track down her new identity and secret life.

From this rather confused premise, Perry weaves an even more convoluted but well-written and gripping mystery. While Jack Till and the inevitable attraction between him and Wendy is flat and predictable, the novel's life and brilliance comes in the form of Paul and Sylvie Turner, a husband and wife hit team who when not killing are either ballroom dancing or bickering. My first reaction to this gun-slinging update of "The Bickerson's" was mild annoyance - I mean, really - "Tango with the Triggerman"? But as the story and the characters developed, the relationship between stripper-turned-porn-star Sylvie and stone-cold killer Paul took on unique and darkly refreshing dimensions, upstaging the comparatively bland Till and Wendy in a move by Perry that could only have been calculated. The plot dips and twists through a few Salsa moves of its own, takes a tour through the slime and sleaze of LA's music industry, and ends up with a few surprises and a satisfying wrap up, leaving at least one reader hoping that Perry will consider bringing back the wacky and deadly Turner duo for an encore.

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Silence

I am fan of Thomas Perry and this is his worst work. That said it was still a fun read. His usually brilliant character development stuttered out between the irony of Metzger"s Dog and the depth of revelation of the Jane Whitfield series. His focal character Jack Till leads the hack assasins by nose leaving mayhem in their wake and never catches on. The resoluton is so weak as to make me wonder whether I had just read an intended farce or a failed thriller. Don't read this Perry novel as your introduction to an otherwise fine author.

Till death do us part!

HA! What a riot, the last chapter is the best one. The whole book is good, it's fast, and spaces the "need to know" points out enough to keep you guessing. I'd read another Thomas Perry book, better then what I thought it was going to be.

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