Jane Hawk-fiction’s most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine-continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting sequel towards the Silent Corner. ‘No time to hold off. Do everything you were born to accomplish. Fame will be yours when you do this.’ These are what that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, dearest schoolteacher Cora Gundersun-just before she calls for her own life, and several others’, inside a stunning action of carnage. When the disturbing material of her secret journal are about The Whispering Area discovered, it appears sure that she must have been crazy. But Jane Hawk knows better. In the wake of her husband’s inexplicable suicide-and the equally mysterious fatalities of ratings of various other exemplary individuals-Jane picks up the trail of a key cabal of effective players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment. However the ruthless people bent on hijacking America’s future for their own monstrous ends under no circumstances banked on an extremely trained FBI agent ready to go rogue-and become the nation’s most needed fugitive-in purchase to derail their insidious plans to gain total power using a terrifying technical breakthrough. Powered by love for her lost husband and by dread for the five-year-old child she has delivered into concealing, Jane Hawk is becoming an unstoppable predator. Those she is hunting could have nowhere to run when her shadow falls across them.