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THE BLACK SILENT
by David Dun
Pinnacle, July 2005
479 pages
$6.99
ISBN: 078601637X


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Geneticist Dr Ben Anderson is called to oversee an emergency in the octopus tank. When he dives down to see what is wrong, another diver tries to kill him. Frick, the head of security for the Sanker Corporation, makes sure that he is the one the police call when something questionable happens at Sanker, and he comes to investigate. Before he gets there, however, Ben manages to hide his research and all papers referring to his discovery. Then he disappears.

His adopted daughter, Dr Haley Walther, has recently been forced from the Sanker Corporation on bogus charges. She is now running a bicycle and motor scooter rental business on the beach of San Juan Island, Washington. Sam Wintripp, Ben's nephew, a secret agent who has been recently badly injured, is recuperating on the island. Haley and Sam have been estranged for several years, but with Ben's disappearance, they start to work together to find him before either Frick and Sanker or the rival corporation do.

Sam and Haley find bits of his research notes, enough to figure out that he was working on the secret of longer life, based on material found in the bathyspheric depths of the Marianas trench. They must release the octopus in the tank, who has lived well beyond the normal life span of the species, in order that his genetic material not fall into the wrong hands, as well as find Ben and stay out of the hands of the corporate thugs after them.

David Dun has written one of the new breed of thrillers, where the enemies are not rival governmental bodies but rather rival corporations. All the action takes place in the lesser-known wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, which is beautifully described. Apparently, this is the third book in which Sam Wintripp appears but enough of his back story is detailed so that it doesn't seem as though THE BLACK SILENT is a sequel to anything, but stands on its own as an excellent thriller.

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, September 2005

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