Silence（ISBN=） 英文原版

Kramer’s smooth, slightly sardonic delivery is a good fit for
Perry’s latest mixture of dark humor and suspense. The chase
thriller focuses on four characters—the hunted (private eye Jack
Till and Wendy Harper, a beauty he helped disappear from assassins
six years before) and the hunters (the bickering, tango-dancing hit
team of Paul and Sylvie Turner who’ve been assigned to wipe out
Wendy). Kramer barely alters his reading voice for Till and Wendy,
adding a wary flatness for the sleuth and a softer tone of
uncertainty for the hapless woman-in-jeopardy. For the Turners,
however, he shows a bit more vocal dexterity. Paul has the deep,
vaguely hollow sound of a very effective con man, while Sylvie’s
bogus East Coast socialite drawl loses much of its cool refinement
when the going gets rough. The plot is tricky—Wendy is forced from
hiding when her former partner is accused of her murder—but as
convoluted and complex as it gets, Kramer’s well-paced presentation
makes every twist register.
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Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now
her ex-boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being
framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and
Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie
Turner do. The Turners are merely hired to do a job, though, and
prefer to remain anonymous. When they find that a middleman has let
the true employer know their identities, finishing the job is no
longer enough. Their fee just went up. Full of masterful plotting
and unnerving psychological insight, “Silence “is a mesmerizing
thrill ride.

Thomas Perry is the author of the Jane
Whitefield series as well as the bestselling novels
Nightlife, Death Benefits, and Pursuit, the
first recipient of the Gumshoe Award for Best Novel. He won an
Edgar Award for The Butcher’s Boy, and his thriller
Metzger’s Dog was a New York Times Notable Book of
the Year. He lives in Southern California.