Dead Silence-Randy Wayne White

Dead Silence
Randy Wayne White
Putnam, Mar 2009, $25.95
ISBN: 9780399155406

Before leaving for New York City, Dr. Marion Ford, a member of a top secret black-ops organization, kills former NFL player Bern Heller, who murdered Doc’s friend, was convicted as a serial rapist, but was freed due to a mistrial. Ford goes to the Big Apple to meet former, but maybe still active, British Agent Sir James Montbard, who plans to lead an expedition to the jungles of Central America; Ford wants inclusion to see if Crusaders came there with treasures plundered from the Crusades. As they talk, he notices through a window a kidnapping of Senator Barbara Hayes-Sorento.

Ford reacts going after the kidnapper while Sir James gets the senator to a safe spot. Will, a teen who was in the car with the senator is abducted by two former expert torturers who want a part of the Cuban files. While Castro was alive he had all his treasures and papers on his vacation island. The critical plan was to force the US government to hand over the documents by burying the senator alive, but now adjust with what they indeed for Barbara they will do to Will. Ford accepts the assignment to find Will before it is too late while dodging the Florida cops who suspect him of murdering Heller.

DEAD SILENCE is a fabulous action-packed thriller as Ford is as fascinating as ever especially when he performs what he believes is righteous justice; a belief that is personalized. He feels no remorse when he kills as the people he assassinates deserve their fate and the system fails in meting justice to these miscreants. Will is no saint but a tough guy who even scares the crap out of one of his kidnappers with his ire while they bury him alive. Readers will enjoy this wild out of control Doc Ford thriller.

Harriet Klausner