Fic­tion

The Silence

Mon­roe Sid Helfgott
  • From the Publisher
May 22, 2014

The Silence is a para­nor­mal his­tor­i­cal thriller based on fac­tu­al mate­r­i­al in the man­ner of Dan Brown’s The Da Vin­ci Code—though it draws upon facts involv­ing the two world wars, Jew­ish mys­ti­cism and the Bib­li­cal Essenes, and New York City in the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry to tell a com­plex iden­ti­ty-quest sto­ry. Alien­ation, exile, and silence pre­vail across three gen­er­a­tions of a Jew­ish fam­i­ly whose reli­gious dynasty orig­i­nat­ed in an east­ern Euro­pean vil­lage in the eigh­teenth cen­tu­ry, but whose roots reach back in time for thou­sands of years.

John Macken­zie, the mod­ern-day pro­tag­o­nist, does not know who his bio­log­i­cal par­ents are; nor does he know that he inher­it­ed a Jew­ish dynas­tic role and the intu­itive and mys­ti­cal pow­ers he needs to ful­fill it.

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