While this is going on, Jane has captured a lawyer, one of the Arcadians, and extracts more information.
The local sheriff, who has known this kind teacher all his life, knows something is very wrong. The second book begins with a dedicated and hard working award winning teacher loading up her car with flammables and driving into a newly opened restaurant, killing a politician and over forty other innocent people. In The Silent Corner the technology is more wide-spread than first assumed, and the so called Techno Arcadians, the people on the inside, are far more numerous than first expected.Īn excellent book, 5 out of 5, and as soon as I’d finished it I was downloading the second book.ĭon’t read beyond here if you’ve not read The Silent Corner. Nano-technology is something that Dean wrote about 30 years ago in the book Midnight, where a whole town has been implanted, and then many of the subjects go slightly crazy. With the help of another Marine Jane hunts down a brilliant but insane scientist who invented and almost perfected the technology. Jane does this and then tracks down a few leads, discovering rumours of nano-technology being used to control people, and of a ‘weird’ brothel. The silent corner refers to people going ‘off-grid’, going offline, no internet, no mobile, no GPS devices. When she is threatened she knows that she is onto something, and goes on the run, hiding her son with friends. Devastated, Jane investigates and finds that the suicide rate has increased and that her husband isn’t the only apparently happy person to have killed themselves. Her husband suddenly kills himself, for no apparent reason. Jane Hawk is a decorated FBI Agent, happily married to a former Marine with a young son. It is difficult to review a whole series of books without giving away too much plot details from the later books, so if you’ve not read the series, don’t read beyond ‘Spoilers’. However, there are a number of books available to read for free with Prime, one of which was The Silent Corner, the first book in the five book series. It is very easy to do this and surprisingly harder to cancel, but that’s the way things go.
I wrote at the time that it was highly unlikely that I would want to change my top three books by My Koontz, but actually I would remove Phantoms and replace it with Lightning, a pseudo-science adventure with time travelling nazis.īack to the Jane Hawk series, and I ordered something from Amazon in early June and accidentally clicked on the one month free Prime trial. First I reviewed his Nameless series of books (read my blog here) and then I wrote about his best three books (read my blog here). I’ve had a bit of a Dean Koontz revival these last couple of months.
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