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Title: Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker ISBN: 0-7868-9003-7 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (49 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: EXPLOSIVE
Comment: Meet Joe Trona, a scarred man.
As a child, Joe had acid thrown on his face by his biological father. Spending much of his youth in an orphanage, Joe, is rescued by politician Will Trona. Tormented by the nightmares of his childhood, Joe, welcomes the love, and acceptance given to him by his new family.
At twenty-four, Joe, now a cop, is his adoptive father's biggest fan. As the ever enthusiastic supporter of Will, he helps his father with his political career, but on an evening of "night business", things go terribly wrong leaving Will dead.
On what started as a mission to rescue a kidnapped girl, turns into a storm of violence, lies, and deception...with Joe wondering if he knew his adoptive father at all.
While trying to find his father's killer, and locate the missing girl, Joe, will uncover all the secrets that Will kept hidden, and he will be forced to face the painful memories of his childhood.
"Silent Joe" is another explosive novel from T.Jefferson Parker. While a suspenseful, page-turning thriller, it is much more, for at the heart of the novel lies the examination of love, and the power of man's spirit to overcome tragedy. With it's strong characters, powerful plot, and strong narrative "Silent Joe" races at break-neck speed to a statisfying conclusion.
T. Jefferson Parker has been consistent with churning out fresh thrillers, and "Silent Joe" is no exception. Although a depature from the style of his previous thrillers, Mr. Parker keeps the pages turning by throwing in twists at every turn.
A MUST read!
Nick Gonnella
Rating: 5
Summary: New Character for Parker
Comment: T. Jefferson Parker is one of the better detective novelists around right now. One of the interesting things about him is the Orange County locales he uses, which are pretty much unique to him (Robert Ray used to use them a few years ago, but he appears to have stopped writing) and which he describes wonderfully. It's apparent he lived in Orange County, though the back of the book says he lives in Fallbrook, down by San Diego, currently.
Here, the main character, Joe Trona, is very unusual, a young sherriff's deputy in OC whose father horribly scarred him as a child, so that his face is horribly disfigured. He's been adopted and raised by a local deputy turned politician and his wife, even though they already have children of their own, and he's now his father's gofer, driver, and bodyguard. When a mysterious meeting goes horribly wrong, and his father's killed in a murky shootout, Joe must work to find out what happened, and try and fix what went wrong. We see everything through the eyes of this wounded individual, and it's interesting. There's also shootouts, fights, and romance, along with lore of the jail where Joe works as a guard.
This is probably Parker's best novel in some time, to my mind anyway. I did like the Merci Rayborn books (he's about to release a third one) but I think this one's better.
Rating: 5
Summary: A New Hero from T. Jefferson Parker
Comment: T. Jefferson Parker has given us another hero to root for and one whom I hope he will bring back from time to time so that we can find out he is doing.
Joe Trona is a quite remarkable young man. Scarred for life by a psychotic father while still a baby in his crib, Joe is later adopted by Will Trona and his wife. Growing up in their loving home, along with the natural children of the Tronas, Joe finds all the emotional, physical and financial support he would never have known had he remained with his natural parents.
After graduating from college, Joe joins the Orange County, CA Sheriff's Department just like his adopted father had. As a young man growing up, Joe developed exceptional skills with firearms and unarmed combat through the martial arts. Because of these skills and the fact that he possessed the extra authority imbued by his Sheriff Department's badge, he has served as the "back-up" to his father, Will. After retiring from the Sheriff's Department, the elder Trona turned to politics and his wife's financial status of independent wealth permitted him to run for county-wide office.
During his political career, the elder Trona made many enemies through his battles against over-development. If ever there was a man in government who could be found to stand in the way of further development of the Orange County countryside, it was Will Trona. In his battles against the wealthy and powerful, Trona takes his son along and provides him with first hand experience and a bird's eye view of his personal method of doing business. But relatively early in this fast-paced novel, Will Trona is gunned down in front of his son and the 24 year old deputy sheriff decides to revenge his beloved father.
What I always find exceptional about Mr. Parker's novels is the consistent ability he shows in description of time, place, atmosphere and the personalities of the people he creates as characters for his novels. SILENT JOE is no exception and held me hard and fast from first page to last.
While showing a potential for violence, Joe Trona also has a side that is softer and needs nurturing. While his parents have shown that to him while he became a part of their family, his face, so badly scarred by acid leaves him a perennial social outcast. To cover the side most scarred, he wears a brimmed hat. But the technique also calls attention to himself, especially in southern California, where the sun is ever present. In addition, his case, which received widespread press coverage while he was a child and during his father's trial is well remembered by many who know his family through his adopted father's political career.
Parker keeps the interest level high as he introduces a possible kidnapping into the equation, one where Joe is asked to serve as a go-between for a wealthy developer, whose youngest daughter has turned up as a "guest" of her older brother.
Throughout the detective work, the revenge seeking and the general plot development, Parker introduces people who turn out to be less than they appear at first meeting. Almost all of them have one or more fatal flaws that result in the reader siding with Joe Trona. This ability, to create less than sympathetic main characters, while providing even more vile key role players is what I like about Parker's novel. And again, his well-developed ability to describe, in some cases, with a minimal use of words, the atmosphere being discussed is what keeps me coming back for more of his novels.
I really came to admire Joe Trona for his singleminded devotion to avenging the death of his father. Parker paints a full-fledged hero for us and despite the fact that Joe Trona is not without his own faults, he grows into his role as a man, a police officer and as a fully realized human being.
Jeff Parker has created an admirable and likeable hero in SILENT JOE. I enjoyed this book immensely and I only hope that Mr. Parker has the good sense to bring Joe Trona back for more adventures in Orange County.
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