The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


The story of FBI (or possibly former FBI) agent Jane Hawk hunting down a global conspiracy.

This book was a pick from the science fiction book club. IF you go with the thought process defining science fiction as ‘a story that fails without the science’ then this book fits that definition. There is a science portion here that the book wouldn’t survive without. I would not categorize this as science fiction ~ I’d put it much more into the ‘techno thriller’ category. There are many other aspects of what I consider to be science fiction that don’t actually appear in the book.

This book will bring excellent discussion to our group. There are lots of topics to pick from. Ethics, technology, law enforcement, moral choices, and how far some of the action stretches. I won’t say the story breaks my willingness to ignore my disbelief, but there are certainly a couple of stress points that are being pushed.

There were a couple of spots in the book that I thought made it drag too long. There were a number of details that the writer in me cheered as ‘research done’ so that the story was very grounded in the world we live in. This was OK, but I enjoyed Odd Thomas much more.



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