Another slam dunk for Jane Hawk. Dean Koontz has created a masterful female lead who uses skill, wits, intelligence and sheer grit to bring down a sinister and shadowy group bent on remaking the world into a horror show. This time paring up with a new ally, there are even more obstacles to overcome and a surprising twist. This series makes you re-think everything you know about conspiracies. I hope we will see more of both Jane and her new pal. It will be difficult to put this book down once started, so pick a day with a clear schedule.

I liked the first book of this new series but was on the fence about reading Book 2. I'm glad I did! "The Whispering Room" is a great, suspenseful read that I enjoyed more than "The Silent Corner." Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk will let nothing get in her way to clear her husband's name and protect her 5 year old son. She's unstoppable.

This is the sequel to The Silent Corner, which should be read first. I tore through SC in a day, just could not stop reading. I took more time with this one; not because it is lesser, just so I could enjoy it longer. Jane is still a badass and the plot still fresh and interesting. Koontz has an ability to make any plot seem possible, and this one moreso in today’s world. Highly recommend! Thanks so much for this opportunity to read this one, which is sure to become a bestseller!

I've been a long time fan of Mr Koontz and read his books as soon as I can. While I enjoy the new character and story line it's not as original as say Odd Thomas. However still an enjoyable read.

As I was reading this book, I thought to myself that it was right up there with books by the masters, such as Dean Koontz.

Then I looked at the title page and discovered it was written by Dean Koontz...

This is a remarkable book with great characters and extraordinary suspense. It builds inexorably toward its climax, with many adventures along the way. Highly recommended.

Jane Hawk is back, as fearless and tough as she was in Koontz's first book in this series. This time she is joined by a small town sheriff in her quest to discover the fiendish plot behind the multiple supposed suicides taking place all over the country, (one of which was her husband in the first book.). In The Whispering Room, Hawk finds that people at the highest government levels have been injected with the nanomachines and the race to find help to stem their power grows more desperate as she fights to stay under their radar.

The Whispering Room is everything I expect and more from Dean Koontz. The second book in the Jane Hawk series. The battle between Good and Evil has always existed and the author is the best at creating heroes and heroines I want to be read about. What humans can do to one another with the excuse of creating a better world, what’s more frightening than that? Jane Hawk is a fantastic heroine and the cast of characters in this book is awesome. I’m hooked!

I really enjoyed the first book in this series. However the second one was so slow I could not finish it. Just awful. Not recommended.

Dean Koontz's second book The Whispering Room, is even more frightening then his first book The Silent Corner about Jane Hawk. She is like a Hawk who swoops down and destroys the bad guys. The only trouble is that the bad guys seem to be taking over the world.. Jane does make many friends on her journey but always has to leave them as she hunts down the leaders of the group that are controlling 1000s of peoples minds. They made her husband kill himself and she is determined to punish and destroy those that did it..

In Dean Koontz's second installment of the Jane Hawk series, The Whispering Room (Random House 2017), Jane Hawk continues her quest to prove that her husband, a highly-decorated Marine, didn't commit suicide but instead was murdered. She's not only been fired from the FBI but they are chasing her as a rogue agent who is a danger to the country she used to serve. The fact that she has been threatened by the people she's chasing and that her son has been threatened doesn't seem to matter to them. that doesn't stop Hawk. She's more than happy to use her prodigious brain and exceptional problem-solving skills to track the people down that she holds responsible. She's fired from the FBI but that doesn't stop her from chasing the people she holds responsible for her

Hawk is one of those characters you don't meet often enough in thrillers.

"Life had too much meaning to process, that every minute of life was rich with meaning, crammed full to the top with meaning. Some of its meaning was as clear and poignant as a needle in the neck, some of such a joyful nature that your buoyant heart seemed capable of lifting you high among the birds, although much of life’s most profound meaning lay beyond her understanding, latent and mysterious. "
She's smart, driven, and focused on what she must do to right the wrongs. Very little gets in her way and almost no one can outthink her. For example, here's how she selected her car:

"The car had been stolen in the U.S.; significantly souped-up in Nogales, Mexico; given a new engine number; repainted; and consigned to an unlicensed auto-sales operation across the border in Nogales, Arizona. The car dealer operated out of a series of unmarked barns on a former horse ranch, and he didn’t accept checks or credit cards. Or make loans. She paid with some serious cash she’d taken away from some bad people in New Mexico. The vehicle’s GPS, with its identifying transponder, had been stripped out, so the Escape couldn’t be tracked by satellite. For now she was done with the San Gabriel."

As for cleverness, on a scale of one to ten, I constantly asked myself, "How the h*** will she get out of this one?" Though I didn't read the first in the series, I still lost little time getting up to speed on the plot and felt it stood on its own nicely.

One complaint though and this is a spoiler: The story doesn't end with the last page. It's only the beginning.

--to be published on my blog WordDreams around Nov. 15th

This is the follow up to Dean Koontz’s Silent Corner, which was in itself a pretty amazing book. Again, Jane, the rogue FBI agent, is out to save the world, but it’s a pretty monumental task being as how she America’s Most Wanted criminal and all over the news. The dystopian aspect of the story is an injection that sends little nanobots into the brains of people where they take over the people’s bodies. I’m eating this book up because I don’t see that part of the story as total fiction. I think that if not now, then in the very near future that this could be a real possibility. Anyway, back to the story of the Whispering Room…Jane is on the hunt for the people who are at the head of all of this mayhem and she’s not afraid to do anything, ANYTHING, to bring them down. In this book she meets up with an unlikely partner, a sheriff of a small town, who recognizes also what the world has to look forward to if this problem is not brought to an end. The Whispering Room is….well, I’m not going to tell….that’s a good piece of the story. The book does not seem to end in a cliffhanger….except in my mind. Jane and Luther have not totally succeeded in their mission and I hope that it will continue on in a third book in the series.

Wow! This story picked up Jane Hawk's mission and hit the ground running. I liked this one better than the first in this series - The Silent Corner. The conspiracy is much larger than she first imagined and more people she needs to try to bring down so that people won't be changed by these "idealists". Fast-paced and engrossing, I couldn't put this one down.

Thanks to Dean Koontz and Random House Publishing - Ballantine through Netgalley for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Dean Koontz' new series is amazing. The Whispering Room is the second book in the Jane Hawk series. The thrill ride continues as the action picks up right after the events from The Silent Corner. I really enjoyed the first book and this one is no different, I absolutely loved it. The Crooked Staircase is next and I look forward to it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, hoping this series gets developed into a TV series or movie. As a long time Dean Koontz fan, I hope that the Jane Hawk series becomes as epic and the Odd Thomas series. I highly recommend this series to all fans of suspenseful thrillers.

The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk #2)
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Lou Jacobs's review
Sep 22, 2017 · edit

it was amazing

Jump on the Millennium Force roller coaster ride .... and experience the breakneck speed of this follow up Jane Hawk novel. I've read the first: "The Silent Corner" and was anticipating the further investigative prowess of our new heroine ... badass and beautiful rogue FBI agent. Koontz weaves another gripping thriller with captivating prose and plotting. Present are his usual blend of humor, action, love and nobility in the face of evil.
The first entry into Jane's world involved her going off the grid to investigate and unravel the inexplicable suicide of her "War Hero" husband . She uncovered a multilayered plot by a cabal of
powerful people to accomplish their own idea of Utopia. Thus, eliminating "undesirables" by suicide and murder to accomplish the goal of a new , better world. They are accomplishing their goals with the aid of science .... injecting nano machines into their victims to force "mind control"
This second novel takes off with the apparent "haunting" of beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun resulting in her becoming a suicide bomber .... and leading to the fiery deaths of a Governor, Congressman and multitude of innocents.
Jane's quest to unravel and expose the cabal takes us on a twisting path across the USA. The ultimate goal is a show down with the apparent leader of the cabal ... multi billionaire, DJ Michael.
Her cinematic confrontation with him and his security measures is worth the price of admission.
Koontz introduces us to a slew of quixotic charters along the way ... and a few beloved ones as well. None more captivating than the Jewish, widower and grandpa ... she encounters him at a rest stop after hijacking a State Trooper's vehicle and in need of new "ride" This lovable character instantly accesses her character and plight and willingly aids and abets.
Thanks to NetGalley who provided a E-book ARC in exchange for an honest review. I can't
wait until the conclusion of this grand Koontz trilogy.

The Whispering Room by Dean Koontz 11/21/17

Scrappymags 3-word Review: My girl-crush continues!

Genre: Thriller/action/mystery

Shortest Summary Ever: Jane Hawk, rogue FBI agent continues hunting the people responsible for the death of her husband, but a full-on manhunt of Jane is underway as she's been put on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Oh snap! 

What’s good under the hood: if you read my review of The Silent Corner you know Jane Hawk became my instant book girl crush - a badass who is smart, manipulative, tough, human and isn't some tacky damsel-in-distress cliche'. She's wicked smart. She's not falling while she's running or relying on some guy to save her. She calculating and lethal. She's everything I want to be... in a book! That bad-ass nature continues here where deeper layers of the new Manchurianesque-world emerge. 

The pacing is swift, the story sharp and pages flew by much like the first.


What’s bad or made me mad: The story didn't advance as much as it did in the first (a curse of many trilogies) but was capable in moving fast enough to keep me in love with the series.

Recommend to: Fans of the first book!

Thanks to NetGalley and Random House Ballantine and the author for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review and making me feel like the greatest bad-ass chic on the face of the earth!

Another page burner from Dean Koontz. I loved The Silent Corner. I love The Whispering Room. If you have a paranoid bone anywhere in your body, this book will enthrall, enrage, excite, and then leave you exhausted. For those who have already read The Silent Corner, The Whispering Room will not disappoint. I cannot wait for #3. Hopefully, only six months.

Dean Koontz has a way of grabbing you at the very beginning and not letting go until it is over. This tale is an edge of your seat story of the power hungry and the one who sees it. I can't wait for another one.

The wonderfully crazy-pants adventures of Jane Hawk continues in this high-octane sequel to The Silent Corner.
Jane, a bad-ass former FBI agent, is still on a dangerous quest to take out the organization that caused her husband to kill himself, put her son in danger, and aims to take over the world- Stepford Wives style. Fans of the first book will be thrilled with the continuation of the conspiracy-laden chaos, which maintains a steady pace from the first page to the last.

The Whispering Room is the latest novel by Dean Koontz and is the follow up story to The Silent Corner. The Whispering Room could be a stand alone book, but is much richer if the reader is familiar with Jane Hawk, the main character. Even though there will be a third book the ending is satisfactory and doesn't leave the reader hanging in limbo. I think these stories are the best yet from Mr Koontz and I've been a fan of his from the very beginning. I was given an early copy to review.