Jane Hawk is one of those characters you can't help but admire for her fortitude, cleverness and drive.
She has chosen a path with no backward direction. She must expose those behind the plot that has hurt so many and will potentially destroy many more lives. I loved the first book in this series and was certainly not disappointed in #2. I would recommend to anyone who enjoys, a suspenseful, tight, page-turning (trite, but it's true!) novel.

Thank you to Random House and Netgalley.com for allowing me the opportunity to read and review The Whispering Room.

Dean Koontz at his best is hard to top and is he ever at the top of his game with this! Suspense, mystery, you name it. This was hard to put down!

I love books by Dean Koontz. Not only are they entertaining, the characters come to life and the plots suck you in and keep you until the end. That is exactly what happened with this book. The characters a strong, the story line is interesting, and the plot is creative. I would recommend this book to any fan of mysteries or thrillers!

I hadn’t read Koontz in a while but the Whispering Room has brought me back in the fold. Along with Stephen King Koontz is the top,thriller/ supernatural,writer of th last half century. Check this book out and see why.

“The Whispering Room” by Dean Koontz, is the second in the “Jane Hawk” series. The action and drama continue from “The Silent Corner,” but it is not necessary to have read the previous book before starting this one. Those who have not read the previous book can jump right in without any problem, however, this is the best book yet, so new readers will undoubtedly want to go back and read “The Silent Corner.”

Cora Gunderson walks through fire without being burned. “You’re dead already … They’ll know all about you in the whispering room.” Thus, it starts, and where will it end?

The book follows Jane Hawk and several additional characters on a frantic journey through a dangerous maze of deception, surveillance, and murder where technology collides with shadowy power brokers. It is wrong that Jane Hawk’s husband is dead and her only child is in jeopardy. Life has crushed her dreams as effectively as a junkyard hydraulic press crumples cars into compact cubes. She has a mission, a story to tell … a big one. To whom can she tell her story without sounding like a paranoid of the tin-foil hat variety? The conspiracy, the tragedy, and the impending doom, all loom large, and the solutions seem impossible. Who can be trusted on this frantic non-stop pursuit of justice and resolution? The chase is intense with all the action, violence, blood and death that readers should have anticipated, but the climax is one that most could not quite have imagined.
As always, the strength of this book is Koontz’s incredible use of language. Readers are immersed in every scene, every event, every problem, and every character all along the way. Example after example leap from every page. (I cannot help but include a few examples, somewhat abbreviated and out of context, and yet so characteristic of the rich, vivid, text in the book.) Readers watch the gossamer swatches of plastic film, inflated like miniature balloons. We observe forty or fifty robins soar with smooth flickering wingbeats, short glides, in an arc descending. We hear birds shriek as they a flock of prophets crying out an impending cataclysm.

I received an advanced copy of “The Whispering Room “from Dean Koontz, Random House Publishing Group, and NetGalley. I highly, highly recommend it; it is one of Koontz’s best. One caution, however, when you start this book, be sure you set aside time to finish, because you will not be able to put it down. The action, the incredible descriptions, and the complex characters, (the good, the bad, and the incredibly evil) will suck you in right from the start.

I love Jane Hawk! This is the sequel to The Silent Corner. I definitely recommend reading The Silent Corner first to get the most from this book, but it's not necessary. The author adds information from The Silent Corner when needed.
In The Whispering Room Jane Hawk continues her in her efforts to avenge her husband's death, make the world safe for her son, and expose (or eliminate) the bad guys.
It's a great read. I hope there's a third Jane Hawk book!

The Whispering Room is a great follow up to the The Silent Corner. Fast paced thriller that kept me entertained and glued to the pages. T

Jane Hawk—fiction’s most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine—continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting sequel to The Silent Corner.

“No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this.”

These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun—just before she takes her own life, and many others’, in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain that she must have been insane. But Jane Hawk knows better.

In the wake of her husband’s inexplicable suicide—and the equally mysterious deaths of scores of other exemplary individuals—Jane picks up the trail of a secret cabal of powerful players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment. But the ruthless people bent on hijacking America’s future for their own monstrous ends never banked on a highly trained FBI agent willing to go rogue—and become the nation’s most wanted fugitive—in order to derail their insidious plans to gain absolute power with a terrifying technological breakthrough.

Driven by love for her lost husband and by fear for the five-year-old son she has sent into hiding, Jane Hawk has become an unstoppable predator. Those she is hunting will have nowhere to run when her shadow falls across them.

This is the second book in a series with Jane Hawk as the main character. I think it would be better to have read ‘The Silent Corner’ beforehand to get the full understanding of what drives the characters. Saying that, though it can be read as a standalone. I haven’t read the first book in the series and could still understand what was going on.

I haven’t read any Dean Koontz books since I was in my early 20’s, so I have a lot of catching up to do.

This book is well written, gripping and unpredictable. At times I had no idea where the story was headed and was surprised. Just once or twice I could guess what was going to happen, but that didn’t make it less enjoyable. 4*

I didn't read the first one but I was given this by Netgalley to post a review.

I really enjoyed the book, even without reading the first one I was able to pick up the story fairly quickly, the main character mentioned several things from the first book but gave enough context you didn't feel left out. That being said, I've always found Koontz to be hit or miss, this one was definitely a hit and I'll be following up by going back and reading the first one.

The only 2 things that annoyed me were 1) the descriptions could get ridiculously long and detailed and never-ending, then you'd flip the page and there would be yet another long, never ending description of the terrain / weather. 2) For some reason the Sheriff's daughter Jolie just drove me insane.

This book is number 2 in the Jane Hawk series by Dean Koontz. In my opinion, this book is finally getting us back to the Dean Koontz we know and love. (Several of his more recent works have felt rushed, especially towards the end, as if only trying to meet a deadline.)
This book picks right up where book one ended. Jane continues on her hunt for answers, while danger lurks in every corner. Compared to book one, I thought that this volume had more excitement, suspense, and action. Koontz uses descriptions to completely submerge you into the story and hooks you in at the very beginning (no spoilers here). The most terrifying part of reading this is the realization of how true this story could be...
I look forward to the next book.

Suspenseful and scintillating, Dean Koontz takes Jane Hawk's quests to a new level. With the love of her husband and child as a driving force, Jane tries to stop a sinister evil that threatens not her her life but the fate of the world.

I received an ARC of this novel from NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group in exchange for an honest review. Thank you!

Rogue agent Jane Hawk may be on the FBI's most wanted list but that is not going to stop her from tracking down the ones responsible for her husband's death and protecting her son. Jane must hunt down those responsible for the implanted nanotechnology as they conspire to achieve power and wealth while forcing innocent people into their mental servitude.

I love a strong female protagonist and Jane Hawk is sexy, smart, and lethal a winning combination. The Whispering Room is the second novel in the Jane Hawk series and I can't wait to continue her journey in book 3, The Crooked Staircase.

A page-turner from start to finish... Highly recommended.

MONEY/SEX/POWER, they are all three here as Mr. D.K. picks up with the Jane, the excommunicated FBI Agent, still on the run and still being hunted. As good as the first one, write on D.K.

THE WHISPERING ROOM is more than a thriller; it is an observation of what our world can become like if we allow nanotechnology and the basic greed of men to persist. Jane continues her saga in this book, pursuing the money-man behind the nano devices that led her husband to commit suicide. D.J. Michael seems to be a foe that no one can get to, but Jane is intelligent and determined. There is another part of the story here; the nano devices have spread to rural areas, including one entire town that has been taken over by them. And there is a trigger phrase to get the people there to become automatically responsive to whatever command is given to them. Jane teams up temporarily with a small-town sheriff and together they make a difference in this small town. Luther is a lovable character, tough but fair and a welcome addition to the plot. At the end of the novel, you want more...you just want Jane to win all the time, but you can see a foreshadowing that this may come with a high price. This was a wonderful book that kept me reading late into the night, with my heart racing and my fingers crossed for the best outcomes for Jane and Luther. You have to read it to believe it; the author is an absolute master at drawing you into the story.

When I finished "The Silent Corner," the first book in this series featuring FBI agent Jane Hawk, I loved it so much that in my review I urged the author to hurry up and finish the next one sooner than scheduled. He must have heard me, since he beat that original date by a couple of months. And oh boy, am I glad he did!

This one can stand alone, although I'm sure I enjoyed it more for having read the first. That one had plenty of action, but here it's almost nonstop, meaning I was "forced" to put other chores on the back burner so I could keep reading (honestly, I think it's even better than the first, and I gave that one a 5-star rating). The prose is pure Koontz, with each turn of the phrase artfully crafted. The focus of the plot - really, really bad guys and gals who are using nanotechnology to turn human beings they don't like into well-controlled automatons - may be a bit "out there," but on the other hand, as one of my favorite comedians, Judy Tenuta, used to say, "It could happen."

In the first book, Jane's husband Nick reportedly committed suicide - but Jane knew better and vowed to get to the truth. That in turn put her at odds with the FBI and even higher-up powers, forcing her to go on the run and put her young son Travis in hiding. Early on, she seeks help from a respected journalist - hoping he's someone she can trust (it's nearly impossible to discern who's had the technology implants, making Jane's quest to take down the instigators all that much harder). At the same time, a much-loved Minnesota school teacher inexplicably commits mass murder by driving her homemade bomb-laden car into a crowd (killing herself as well). When Jane learns of the incident, she immediately suspects that the woman was "guided" by an outside force.

At the same time, local Sheriff Luther Tillman has suspicions all his own; wanting to find out why the normally sweet teacher would commit such a horrible act, he visits her home and retrieves a few items. Shortly thereafter, her home goes up in flames, adding fuel to Luther's belief that something is rotten in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

Jane and Luther lead separate investigations for a while, but as might be expected, their trails eventually come together. From that point on, there's no going back - and they must cling to the hope that the way forward won't end with either or both of their deaths.

Mysterious and spooky and all together ooky, this book is a must-read for anyone who loves thrillers spiked with a tablespoon of science fiction. Love it - and I thank the publisher, via NetGalley, for the opportunity to read an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

READ THE SILENT CORNER FIRST!!!

This book picked up right where the first left off. Jane Hawk is a smart, bad ass heroine. She astonished me at every move. The situation she has put herself in is quite a difficult one. The technological intrigue makes you wonder what is real and what is not in my own life. Who can really track us and to what extent. Human nanotechnology? This book really caught my attention and I can't wait for the next one!!

This is the second book in the Jane Hawk series. In the first book, Jane's husband dies by what is seemingly suicide, but she knows better. She deposits their son somewhere that he will never be found, and then takes off on a mission to clear his name, and prove he was murdered. This book picks up where The Silent Corner ended. She has discovered at least a portion of those responsible, and is taking them out one by one.
As much as I loved The Silent Corner, I believe this one is even better. I laughed, I got stressed out, and I was unable to put the book down. This is definitely a must-read!

I am an on and off again Koontz fan and I must admit that I have not read the prequel to this book, The Silent Corner. The beginning chapter immediately hooked me and I was pretty sure this was going to be a fun ride. The characters were bold and immediately intriguing. As I read, I found The Whispering Room to have the same general theme as the Frankenstein series (which I loved) with elite, wealthy intellectuals and their strive for totalitarianism. Overall. the first 20% of this book read slightly slow for me as I believe that the author was supplying background from the first novel. Even not reading the first book, I felt it was a little too much and a bit repetitious. The author is often "wordy" for my personal tastes. I don't need paragraphs to understand scenic beauty, apartment decorations, etc. One or two well formed sentences does the job quite well. I must admit that his words are crafted beautifully but (for me) - it was too much. This is just a personal preference and no way detracts from the story. I probably skimmed a fifth of the novel that I felt was just too wordy.

.Koontz creates wonderful characters that you can love and hate. I find it impossible to lose myself in a story without characters you can connect to. From this novel and past ones I have read, I believe that his strength does lie in his character development and he didn't disappoint in The Whispering Room. I must say that although a minor character, I especially adored that of Grandpa Bernie.

I would have preferred a 400 page story with less (beautifully constructed) fluff to the 500+ page novel I did enjoy this story even though it felt like a reconstructed theme. The book is fast paced which encourages the reader to push to the end. I think had the novel been about 100 pages shorter, I would have given it a 5 star rating. As it is, The Whispering Room deserves a solid 4 stars and I will be reading The Silent Corner next then waiting anxiously for a third installment in the series.

I received this copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.