General Information
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 Title:                  Rules of Silence
 Author:                 David Lindsey
 Read By:                Christopher Price
 Copyright:              2003
 Audiobook Copyright:    2003
 Genre:                  Thriller
 Publisher:              BBC Audiobooks
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 Media:                  CD
 Source:                 Library
 Condition:              Very Good

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 Total Duration:         10:02:11
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Book Description
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From Booklist
Multimillionaire Titus Cain is approached with a strange proposition: 
if he doesn't give a certain man $64 million, this same man will kill 
off some (or perhaps all) of Cain's friends and loved ones. The money 
has to be given to the extortionist in such a way that no one suspects 
anything is going on (primarily through deliberately bad investments), 
and if Cain even tries to seek help, the killings will start instantly. 
Lindsey's latest novel is thoroughly exhilarating, even if the premise 
isn't completely fresh: Jon Katzenbach's The Analyst (2001) was also 
about a man who had to do a specific thing if he didn't want the villain 
to kill his loved ones. Titus Cain is a sympathetic protagonist, a man 
forced to make tough decisions in the face of enormous danger; Cayetano 
Luquin, the powerful extortionist, who apparently does this sort of 
thing for a living, is vastly evil without being cartoonish; and Garcia 
Burden, the ex-CIA counterterrorism expert to whom Titus turns for help, 
is resourceful and inscrutable. Lindsey's novels sometimes suffer from 
lethargy, as though he's just sort of wandering through his story, but 
this one moves swiftly to its rousing finale. It's a definite winner.

From Publishers Weekly
Lindsey is an efficient thriller author who sometimes (as in Mercy) 
reaches considerable heights of suspense and terror. The present book, 
however, is no more than just efficient, despite its smooth prose, a 
Lindsey trademark. It has a workable plot-Titus Cain, a self-made Texas 
millionaire software developer, is being bled financially by a Latino 
thug who threatens to kill Cain's nearest and dearest if he fails to 
pay large sums into a series of front companies-but it soon becomes 
clear that the plot is all there is to the book. Titus; his wife, Rita; 
and the outlaw techno-whiz they hire to get them out of their horrible 
situation are not brought to life for an instant, but remain the ciphers 
of a mindless action movie. It soon becomes clear that the Cains' would-be 
savior, Garcia Burden, has his own dark agenda, and that their nemesis 
is not stockpiling money just for himself but perhaps for a sinister 
Arab group that could be planning a new terrorist attack. There's a 
great deal of planting bugs, scrutinizing laptops, dashing around in 
SUVs and the occasional burst of mayhem, but it's basically an unengaging 
and mechanical exercise. Lindsey can do much better.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to 
an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 

