She cannot drive a vehicle with a GPS, have a laptop, or use a smartphone. When Jane becomes the most wanted fugitive in the country, which she is as the story opens, she is not able to use planes, trains, or buses because the security cameras in those venues can be so easily married to facial-recognition software. While I knew that the premise would provide for a scary and exciting story, I didn’t realize just how scary and exciting until I began to explore it fully in THE SILENT CORNER. The story involves no supernatural element, but it has what I’d call a scientific premise in the Michael Crichton tradition, something that is not futuristic but here now in an early form with a terrible potential. She is 27, incredibly tough, wonderfully smart, and surprisingly tender. Jane Hawk, the lead of the story, is an FBI agent on leave, who quickly becomes an FBI agent gone rogue-at least in the eyes of the agency. When I started THE SILENT CORNER, I didn’t know what a rocket-propelled roller coaster I had just boarded. It often follows that if the character has such an edge, the story moves like an express train, because a character with an edge has surprises up his or her sleeve that I can’t foresee but that I’m delighted to discover in one twist after another. Once in a while, a character comes so alive so quickly and with such an edge that I almost feel as if I’ve actually met this person.
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