Five years ago, Lee Jordan was nearly killed on the job. Now deaf, blind, and mute, he’s recovered enough to live a routine but silent life.
However, now, the LAPD needs him back…
When the cases of many missing persons are tied together with the same M.O., Lee Jordan is called in to help locate people who seemingly walked away from their everyday lives. But did they? When one of them … one of them surfaces, the forensic evidence makes it clear that this man did not stay gone as willingly as he disappeared.
Lee’s only assets are his guide dog, fourteen years of experience as a homicide detective — and an intriguing American Sign Language translator named Rachel.
Just as Lee begins to discover something remarkable about himself, he must engage in a battle of wits with a murderer he can’t see or hear. With no weapons but his own mind — and a guide dog with a heart of gold — he sets off alone in Los Angeles to investigate the disappearances.
It’s only a matter of time before more people may die under nefarious circumstances. And the manner of death could put the entire city at risk from… something even more dangerous.
Lee Jordan knows there is more to fighting crime than meets the eye, or ear, or voice. But will he survive his courageous solo pursuit of a twisted killer on the mean streets of L.A.? And can he really stop a madman by himself?
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I really enjoyed reading this book. The author has created a novel with a truly unique premise. In doing so, he pushes the literary envelope and challenges his readers to join him for the experience. I finished this book a few months back and I wanted to wait to see if it stayed prominently in my memory and it certainly did this and more.
Extremely strong writing, gives us a glimpse into the life of the protagonist! You can almost feel the unrelenting enormity of this man’s plight in life. The despair and feelings of being imprisoned within himself, as well as when he begins reaching out of his seeming isolation. I would truly love to read more about this character and how he continues to expand his horizons.
I loved this book but it could have been a much larger, more intricate story. The author could easily have made this a much longer book, it was too short.
I have to admit I’ve been getting a little tired of the highly flawed anti-hero (or heroine), who has hit rock bottom and lost everything in their life due to a tragic personal addiction. But just when you think you’ve read it all, here’s Lee Jordan. Now this is a man who TRULY has lost it all, and for once it wasn’t due to a personal flaw. A homicide detective, incredibly injured when he kicked in the door of a house that was wired with explosives, we start this story with Lee sitting in his sad little apartment with his guide dog. He’s now blind, deaf, and mute from having his vocal cords severed by fragments. He communicates slowly, using hand signs, letter tiles, and a braille text device. But in the middle of feeling sorry for himself, his old lieutenant visits, wanting Lee’s help and advice on a series of missing person cases that all follow the same pattern. Now, I haven’t had a problem reading any kind of stories at night since I read HP Lovecraft as a teen, but this is the one book that I stopped reading in the middle of the night, as this crazy blind, deaf and mute detective goes after the bad guy at night with no assistance but his guide dog. My heart couldn’t take the strain. The book does require some suspension of disbelief, but not nearly as much as you’d think given the premise. It was very unusual, and very good.