The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz *****

The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz is the first Jane Hawk novel (out of 5). I’d call it an SF thriller. Jane Hawk goes up against a group of evil billionaires wielding nanotechnology to control people. Some of their victims work in their brothels, others are security guards, and others are considered a threat to society and induced to commit suicide. With 167 short, short chapters, the book moves quickly with few surprises. Escape reading at its best.

When the bad guy goes down (no surprise), Jane Hawk observes: “But what might have looked like courage proved to be a deficit of common sense and an excess of self-importance, too strong a faith in his genius and superiority—not courage at all, but the rash actions of an ordinary narcissist incapable of imagining that he might fail.” This goes along with the author’s idea that “Evil is unimaginative and last.”

There is no ambiguity in this book. The good guys are very good, and the bad guys are evil.

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