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.