Jane Hawk-fiction's most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine-continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting sequel to The Silent Corner. "No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this." These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun-just before she takes her own life, and many others', in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain that she must have been insane. But Jane Hawk knows better.
In the wake of her husband's inexplicable suicide-and the equally mysterious deaths of scores of other exemplary individuals-Jane picks up the trail of a secret cabal of powerful players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment. But the ruthless people bent on hijacking America's future for their own monstrous ends never banked on a highly trained FBI agent willing to go rogue-and become the nation's most wanted fugitive-in order to derail their insidious plans to gain absolute power with a terrifying technological breakthrough.
Driven by love for her lost husband and by fear for the five-year-old son she has sent into hiding, Jane Hawk has become an unstoppable predator. Those she is hunting will have nowhere to run when her shadow falls across them.
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[Cora Gunderson walked through seething fire without being burned, nor did her white dress burst into flames]***
(Bantam, 21 November 2017, ebook, review copy provided by the publisher via NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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I loved The Whispering Room as much as The Silent Corner and look forward to Jane Hawk's next adventure.
Koontz is a hugely successful writer. He's been around for decades and knows his stuff.
You need to have read The Silent Corner to completely understand some of what goes on in this book.
The Whispering Room picks up directly after The Silent Corner with Jane continuing her quest to punish the powerful organisation responsible for her husband's suicide and a string of similar ones. The book takes the concept that a powerful organisation uses a computer programme to find people they perceive to be a threat in the future in some form of another. The organisation then eliminates these people by planting nanomachines in their brains, which when triggered cause them to commit suicide.
The Whispering Room takes the concept further. We are introduced to the small town of Iron Furnace. The town is like those creepy little places that features in episodes of the Twilight Zone where everyone is peachy-keen and happy beyond measure. The residents, except the children are controlled by said nanomachines. Someone give me a hug because I am so creeped out right now.
Koontz is known for writing about the more unpleasant aspects of scientific development in his fiction and The Whispering Room is no exception.
