{ "item_title" : "Silent Signal", "item_author" : [" Alasdair A. Perry "], "item_description" : "HIS SON HAS NEVER SPOKEN A WORD. HE'S ABOUT TO STOP A WAR.Danny Mercer used to be one of the best shots in the Marine Corps. Now he buffs gym floors on the night shift at a Baltimore elementary school, the bills are stacking up in the drawer under the microwave, and the electric company has just set a shutoff date. He has one reason to keep going: Jonah.Jonah is eleven, nonspeaking and autistic, the boy Danny adopted four years ago. He talks through a tablet when he talks at all. He counts the buses on West Pratt Street. And he pins the whole world to the refrigerator: bus transfers, receipts, newspaper clippings, fortune-cookie slips, all arranged in an order only he understands. Left is what already happened. Right is what hasn't happened yet. The higher it's pinned, the more it matters.Then fourteen shipping containers vanish from the Port of Baltimore. On paper they cleared customs. In reality they never existed. Nobody in Washington has noticed yet.Jonah has already put them on the wall.Allister Perry runs Sentinel, a tiny agency that doesn't officially exist, has no badges, and doesn't arrest anyone. Its job is to find the threats everyone else misses, and Perry believes the boy on the refrigerator sees what no analyst, algorithm or satellite can. Nobody else believes it. Not the FBI. Not the Secret Service. And not the child-welfare investigator who has decided a broke janitor with a nonspeaking son is a case to be closed.With the State of the Union days away and the clock running, Danny has to do the hardest thing a father can do: stop trying to explain his son and start listening to him. The clues are hidden in crossword grids and chess moves, and the pattern reaches higher than anyone wants to admit. Jonah isn't just seeing it. He's telling Danny where to stand.Danny can shoot. Danny can fight. But none of that matters if he can't read the signal his son has been sending all along. As time runs out and the people who should be helping start closing doors, Danny learns that the most dangerous person in a conspiracy isn't the man with the rifle. It's the one nobody bothers to watch: the kid in the gray hoodie at the front window, counting buses, who never forgets a thing.Inside: a former Marine who is out of money and out of options, a boy everyone underestimates, and a conspiracy that runs from the Baltimore docks to the halls of power. Real-world detail on how ports, intelligence agencies and modern surveillance actually work. Action told with the precision of a sniper's shot. And a twist you won't see coming.Silent Signal is Book One of the Sentinel series: a fast, grounded techno-thriller about loyalty, fatherhood, and the quiet kid in the corner who turns out to be the most important person in the room.Perfect for readers who love military and political thrillers, secret-agency stories, high-stakes conspiracies, and books with real heart at the center: a father and son who will do anything for each other.About the author: Alasdair A. Perry started writing Silent Signal in 2006, after reading the great techno-thrillers of that era. Twenty years later, he finished it. He is now at work on Book Two of the Sentinel series.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/898/251/9798982512000_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "18.99", "online_price" : "18.99", "our_price" : "18.99", "club_price" : "18.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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