{"product_id":"quiet-hour-scott-p-hicks-9798299335583","title":"Quiet Hour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe lake went silent before the screaming started.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow the quiet itself is counting down.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a sudden pressure event tears through a lakeside crowd and leaves witnesses shaken, injured, and unable to explain what happened, federal investigator Cass is sent into a crisis that makes no sense. There's no blast crater. No conventional weapon. No clear suspect. Just a strange hush, scattered evidence, and the sickening sense that something beneath the surface has woken up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGabe, a brilliant technical specialist with his own scars, sees the pattern before anyone else wants to name it. The silence isn't absence. It's structure. A signal. A weaponized hour built from old experiments, buried records, and a system powerful people tried hard to forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Cass and Gabe race to understand the threat, the town begins to fracture around them. Emergency channels fail. Evacuation orders turn urgent. Officials argue over what can be said, what must be hidden, and who will take the blame if panic spreads faster than the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen a captured man with ties to the project reveals the worst part: the first event was not the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was a test.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Cass must decide how far she'll go to stop a force that turns sound, silence, and human fear into a weapon. The deeper she digs, the more the evidence points to Deep Gauge, a buried program with reach far beyond one lake, one town, or one ruined night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd every minute they wait, the quiet gets closer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiet Hour\u003c\/b\u003e is a tense, atmospheric thriller about buried technology, civic panic, moral compromise, and the terrible things that happen when silence is no longer empty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who want: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eA high-concept thriller built around a terrifying mystery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eA tense federal investigation with escalating public danger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eA grounded blend of science, conspiracy, and psychological suspense\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eA strong lead investigator forced into impossible choices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eA race-against-time crisis with emotional fallout\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eA chilling threat that feels both strange and disturbingly plausible\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eA complete story with a lingering final unease\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eCass came to contain a disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo stop it, she may have to listen to the one thing everyone else is trying not to hear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe quiet remembers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Scott P. Hicks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798299335583\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 458\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.02d","brand":"Scott P. Hicks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173461663999,"sku":"9798299335583","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/quiet-hour-scott-p-hicks-9798299335583","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}