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Book Review of Guilt By Silence

Guilt By Silence
Guilt By Silence
Author: Taylor Smith
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback


The story of a young mother Mariah Bolt, a CIA officer, trying to cope with the aftermath of an accident in Vienna which left her young daughter severely injured and her brilliant husband David Tardiff paralyzed from the neck down and mentally impaired.. Now back in the United States, she is approached by a Paul Chaney, a foreign correspondent who tells her the accident may not have been an accident at all. She brushes him off and tries to forget his suggestions until it becomes apparent that she is being followed and she and her daughter are being threatened. When she is notified of her husband's death she finds she doesn't know who to trust and Paul Chaney may be her only ally.