Janet MaslinSilence moves suspensefully from near miss to near miss, with the rival hunters never far from one another in either deductive or geographical terms. That does not make it a terribly eventful book, nor does it yield a compact one. Longer than usual for its genre, Silence takes the richly methodical approach that works so well for Mr. Perry and remains steadily surprising. Only in his determination to create a two-sided story does the book show any strain. Either team, particularly the Turners, could have sustained a book alone.
— The New York Times
Publishers WeeklyKramer'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).
