The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk #2)

The Whispering Room by Dean Koontz
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It picks up where The Silent Corner left off. Jane plans to enlist the aid of a journalist (Lawrence Hannafin) in her crusade only to discover he is a member of the Arcadians. He leads her to D. J. Michael's attorney Randall Larkin.

She kidnaps Larkin and learns of Furnace Creek a place she believes she will be able to get to D. J. Michaels. After she arrives in Furnace Creek she realizes that Larkin mislead her Michaels isn't there and the estate is being used to house children under 16 as apparently the nanotechnology doesn't work on them. Harley Higgins has already made several attempts to escape only to be brought back due to a locator in his shoes. Armed with this new knowledge he is planing a daring escape and planning to take the other 7 children with him.

Sheriff Luther Tillman is dismayed when his friend Cora Gundersun drives a car bomb into a hotel killing the Governor and several other people.Suspicious of the FBI's behavior he embarks on his own investigation and the trail leads him to Furnace Creek where he will team up with Jane Hawk to recuse the children imprisoned there at the risk of his own family.

Jane and Luther rescue the 8 children and take them to safety with the Sacket's. Luther plans to meet up with his family and go into hiding with the Sacket's too, but before he can his wife and eldest daughter are implanted with nanotechnology. His youngest daughter (Jolie) escapes but blames him for the loss of her Mother and sibling.

Jane goes after Michaels alone in his penthouse and is dismayed when he commits suicide. Suspecting that he was implanted by nanotechnology and that there is someone else pulling the strings she goes into hiding with her son to recover from the bullet wound she suffered when she confronted Michaels.

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