T.JEFFERSON PARKER

El silencio de Joe es una atractiva novela de suspense sobre un hombre con la cara marcada, el padre al que idealizó y un secreto por descubrir. Con las horribles cicatrices de una tragedia infantil todavia visibles en la cara, Joe Trona esta marcado en mas de un sentido. Años despues de haber sido rescatado de un orfanato por Will Trona, un carismatico politico del condado de Orange, Joe, se ve inmerso en la marea de poder e intimidacion en la que se halla la brillante carrera profesional de su padre adoptivo. Joe se convierte no solo en la mano derecha de su padre, sino tambien en el defensor a ultranza del territorio de este. Pero sus esfuerzos no seran suficientes para librar a Will Trona de sus enemigos. Cuando Will es asesinado, Joe movera cielo y tierra para saber quien lo hizo.

California Homicide Detective Tom McMichael has every good reason to pass on the investigation of slain city patriarch Pete Braga. After all, it was former mayor and self-made millionaire Braga who killed Tom's grandfather in a dispute over money -- and Tom's own father who, allegedly, sought revenge by savagely beating Braga's son into imbecility. But there are others who hated the old man as well. And McMichael is a good cop determined to perform his duty to the best of his abilities -- despite his growing feelings for the beautiful nurse who is the prime suspect in the brutal bludgeoning death ... and despite a twisting trail that is leading him into deadly, dark, and very private places where he dearly wishes not to go.