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Her Dark Silence: A Thriller
A young mother tries a revolutionary PTSD therapy, only to find herself—and her family—in danger. Living a seemingly perfect existence in Charleston, brilliant novelist Clara Swanner secretly exists in the shadow of post-traumatic stress. For years, she has been haunted by a dark event of her past—an event that has since caused four of her friends to commit suicide. When a new psychedelic drug gains a cult following as a treatment option, Clara thinks she has nothing to lose by trying it. But when the treatment releases a flood of memories that Clara has spent years trying to escape, she uncovers disturbing connections between her friends’ deaths. As the lines between reality and nightmare begin to blur, she isn’t so certain that they killed themselves. Determined to uncover the truth, and grappling with her own inner demons, Clara becomes entangled in the dark and deadly mystery that unfolds. The more she faces her past, the closer she gets to proving the identity of a killer. And the more she realizes he’s already coming for her—and her family.
- GenresThriller
292 pages, Paperback
Published August 27, 2020
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Jason Kasper
74 books495 followersJason Kasper is a USA Today bestselling thriller author. He served in the US Army, beginning as a Ranger private and ending as a Green Beret captain. Jason is a West Point graduate and a veteran of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and was an avid ultramarathon runner, skydiver, and BASE jumper, all of which inspire his fiction.
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September 10, 2020
Q: … a pretty dark worldview… (c) some people share.
The plot background setting is ludicrous. It seems that a military girl, Clara, and her platoon get to be under fire once (ONCE!) while traipsing through Iraq as a part of that half-assed military mission and this experience triggered intense PTSD in every one of them. Their PTSD is so intense that they go on to generally lead miserable lives and/or to kill themselves off after they are home.
Q:
It had taken her years to gradually piece her humanity back together, until she was able to feel emotions other than anger, impulses that extended beyond animalistic survival. And Clara had only been in one gunfight, horrific as it was. (c)
I can't be too empathetic with their plights for 3 reasons:
- We have all gotten extremely complacent with our comfortable lives, video games, super comfy everything, extra simple information at a mouse click's/google search/Siri effort. We seem to be thinking ourselves to be indestructible, immortal and omniimportant beings. Many seem to be thinking that going to some war might be a welcome distraction or some laudable effort, plus the G.I. Bill thing won't hurt (or at least it seems to be that way with all these Iraq, Syria, etc novels). So, when people actually get in real war, under heavy fire, they seem to be quite surprised at the actual thing not being at par with the trashy films and novels and not quite the thing one would be inclined to tell one's kids about.
This dissonance is definitely leading people first into taking heavy risks with one's own and other people's lives (starting wars around the world, yes I'm looking at all the Arabic countries and what's being done to them) and then into getting 1st grade heavy PTSD for life. Defending one's home and elderly parents / young kids is quite a different experience to going to another mainland and destroying other people's country. (Even the ones with horrible towards women cultural norms. You don't really go about enriching gender cultures with mortar shelling, do you?)
- This stands no comparison: how does one even get to be a vet after being in a firefight once?
I'd dearly love to see them under Nazi fire for 1418 days and nights. That's for how long Russia and its USSR satellites fought the European Nazi fascists in 1941-1945. Men fought. Women fought. Very mature people fought. War came to their homes, basically. So even some -children fought.
For example:
> My grandma was 14 at the time, my grandpa 13, both were with labor army which is the people who would dig tranches, wash bloodied bandages in ice-cold water, prepare food and do other support for active battle personnel.
> The youngest of my great-grandpas was 16 when he volunteered into active battle duty.
> Overall, over 46 of relatives of mine got into the WW2 and were either killed or lost in action, and that's me not counting many other relative civilians about whom not much was ultimately known, like those 3 cousins' kids who were in orphanages as at the start of the WW2 (these orphanages were partially evacuated, partially extra heavily hit with bombs, all archives 100% lost and everyone dead who could tell what happened to these particular kids…). Many were lost like that …
Many lost their homes, their families, their everything. Many more people were subjected to heavy bombardments, had to hide and live in forests - all kind of crazy stuff that happens when you don't go invade someone else's country but when you are attacked at home. When you don't choose 'will I take some extra clothes or a favorite photo of my late grandma with me if our house is hit with a bomb?' but instead, if you are very lucky, you manage to grab your kids and the other grandma and run as hell out of a burning house in the middle of a burning town. I'm pretty sure that's very PTSD-conductive yet people somehow worked through that.
Almost every family lost at least somebody. The bigger families (of which there were many at that epoch!) lost 5-10-25-40-50… etc family members. Lost as not 'lost to intense PTSD, OMG' but lost dead.
After the WW2, they had no PTSD therapy or anything. What they had to do is rebuild from the ground up the whole European part of the country since most everything was in shambles. Just like that. Easy-peasy, huh?
No one went 'oh, I have the most intense PTSD, I can't sleep, I have flashbacks and hypervigilance', while I'm sure about 90% of the population at the time had all or most of prerequisites for the condition.
- Now, I have the most ground-breaking PTSD solution since the Chenghis-Ghan wars: How about staying away from the countries one has no business being in? Germany shouldn't have gone to Russia/USSR, the US to Iran and every-fucking-where else. Everyone just stays home, how nice is that? No half-assed military campains, no attacking other people's homes (and, not-to-spoil-it, mosques!)? Would do wonders for everyone's PTSD. Better than ashwagandha. Duh.
So, this contrast really makes me roll my eyes. While I know fairly well that PTSD's a terrible, dreadful and largely not exactly curable condition, I still can't help going 'Duh!' on this whole setting.
Another takeout: miracle drugs can have interesting effects. Don't try them at home, kiddies. Or vets. Or whoever the hell you are.
The twists were…. well… I liked them since I love angst in my books but… well… all the acid tripping was overboard.
Clara's so very intensely insecure, I'm pretty sure she'd give all the YA insecure kids a run for their money. She's feeling defeatist about everything: the gate community she and her family live in, the trophy wives of the neighbourhood, her husband. Even while watching zombie horrors of her mind, she still feels the need to have sex with her hubby 'in spectacularly promiscuous fashion'. Why? Are the horrors making her extra horny? Nope: she does it to Q: 'more or less to divert his mind from her paranoia, from the home break-in, from the fact that he was increasingly suspecting that she was losing her mind. ... And Jeremy had far too many better options for her to be flirting with total vulnerability right now.' (c)
Q:
She felt secretly grateful that she wouldn’t have to spread her legs for him a second time today. (c)
Q:
Clara was also Jeremy’s little plaything, the sex object dolled up in silk and lace, waiting to be used whenever the need struck him. (c) Now, that's quite a marriage to behold.
Anyway, why wasn't this stuff resolved?
Her dynamics with neighbours is spectacular:
Q:
Jackie Hazley, the bombshell blonde from two doors down, was power walking down the sidewalk toward her.
...
She looked resplendent in the labial wedgie of her yoga pants, her flat abs ending in a hot pink sports bra doing its part to support her surgically enhanced breasts. (c) Nasty.
Q:
“Oh, right… I just had some time before I have to get dinner started and thought I’d burn some extra calories. Can you believe how hot it is?”…
“Yeah, kind of… We’re in the South.” (c)
Q:
Jackie called after her, “Clara?”
“Yes, Jackie?”
The woman seemed confused. “Your mail. Weren’t you going to check your mail?”
* * *
Clara entered her house, tossing the mail on a side table and locking the front door. Her eyes were burning with tears now, and she angrily wiped them away. (c)
Other stuff:
Q:
… three grams’ worth of ashwagandha root extract and six grams of glycine. (c) That's way too much, actually. No big wonder she wasn't sleeping.
Q:
How could things be any worse than losing her marriage to Jeremy, and then reliving the horrors of combat in her sleep? Answer: losing your marriage, and then reliving those horrors combined with your former platoonmates turning into zombies. That’s a fun little twist, now isn’t it? (c)
Q:
You’re Clara Swanner, a genuine warrior princess. I’ve seen a lot of people who became killers after multiple deployments, but you’re the only person I ever served with who was born that way, and showed it on their first gunfight. (c)
The plot background setting is ludicrous. It seems that a military girl, Clara, and her platoon get to be under fire once (ONCE!) while traipsing through Iraq as a part of that half-assed military mission and this experience triggered intense PTSD in every one of them. Their PTSD is so intense that they go on to generally lead miserable lives and/or to kill themselves off after they are home.
Q:
It had taken her years to gradually piece her humanity back together, until she was able to feel emotions other than anger, impulses that extended beyond animalistic survival. And Clara had only been in one gunfight, horrific as it was. (c)
I can't be too empathetic with their plights for 3 reasons:
- We have all gotten extremely complacent with our comfortable lives, video games, super comfy everything, extra simple information at a mouse click's/google search/Siri effort. We seem to be thinking ourselves to be indestructible, immortal and omniimportant beings. Many seem to be thinking that going to some war might be a welcome distraction or some laudable effort, plus the G.I. Bill thing won't hurt (or at least it seems to be that way with all these Iraq, Syria, etc novels). So, when people actually get in real war, under heavy fire, they seem to be quite surprised at the actual thing not being at par with the trashy films and novels and not quite the thing one would be inclined to tell one's kids about.
This dissonance is definitely leading people first into taking heavy risks with one's own and other people's lives (starting wars around the world, yes I'm looking at all the Arabic countries and what's being done to them) and then into getting 1st grade heavy PTSD for life. Defending one's home and elderly parents / young kids is quite a different experience to going to another mainland and destroying other people's country. (Even the ones with horrible towards women cultural norms. You don't really go about enriching gender cultures with mortar shelling, do you?)
- This stands no comparison: how does one even get to be a vet after being in a firefight once?
I'd dearly love to see them under Nazi fire for 1418 days and nights. That's for how long Russia and its USSR satellites fought the European Nazi fascists in 1941-1945. Men fought. Women fought. Very mature people fought. War came to their homes, basically. So even some -children fought.
For example:
> My grandma was 14 at the time, my grandpa 13, both were with labor army which is the people who would dig tranches, wash bloodied bandages in ice-cold water, prepare food and do other support for active battle personnel.
> The youngest of my great-grandpas was 16 when he volunteered into active battle duty.
> Overall, over 46 of relatives of mine got into the WW2 and were either killed or lost in action, and that's me not counting many other relative civilians about whom not much was ultimately known, like those 3 cousins' kids who were in orphanages as at the start of the WW2 (these orphanages were partially evacuated, partially extra heavily hit with bombs, all archives 100% lost and everyone dead who could tell what happened to these particular kids…). Many were lost like that …
Many lost their homes, their families, their everything. Many more people were subjected to heavy bombardments, had to hide and live in forests - all kind of crazy stuff that happens when you don't go invade someone else's country but when you are attacked at home. When you don't choose 'will I take some extra clothes or a favorite photo of my late grandma with me if our house is hit with a bomb?' but instead, if you are very lucky, you manage to grab your kids and the other grandma and run as hell out of a burning house in the middle of a burning town. I'm pretty sure that's very PTSD-conductive yet people somehow worked through that.
Almost every family lost at least somebody. The bigger families (of which there were many at that epoch!) lost 5-10-25-40-50… etc family members. Lost as not 'lost to intense PTSD, OMG' but lost dead.
After the WW2, they had no PTSD therapy or anything. What they had to do is rebuild from the ground up the whole European part of the country since most everything was in shambles. Just like that. Easy-peasy, huh?
No one went 'oh, I have the most intense PTSD, I can't sleep, I have flashbacks and hypervigilance', while I'm sure about 90% of the population at the time had all or most of prerequisites for the condition.
- Now, I have the most ground-breaking PTSD solution since the Chenghis-Ghan wars: How about staying away from the countries one has no business being in? Germany shouldn't have gone to Russia/USSR, the US to Iran and every-fucking-where else. Everyone just stays home, how nice is that? No half-assed military campains, no attacking other people's homes (and, not-to-spoil-it, mosques!)? Would do wonders for everyone's PTSD. Better than ashwagandha. Duh.
So, this contrast really makes me roll my eyes. While I know fairly well that PTSD's a terrible, dreadful and largely not exactly curable condition, I still can't help going 'Duh!' on this whole setting.
Another takeout: miracle drugs can have interesting effects. Don't try them at home, kiddies. Or vets. Or whoever the hell you are.
The twists were…. well… I liked them since I love angst in my books but… well… all the acid tripping was overboard.
Clara's so very intensely insecure, I'm pretty sure she'd give all the YA insecure kids a run for their money. She's feeling defeatist about everything: the gate community she and her family live in, the trophy wives of the neighbourhood, her husband. Even while watching zombie horrors of her mind, she still feels the need to have sex with her hubby 'in spectacularly promiscuous fashion'. Why? Are the horrors making her extra horny? Nope: she does it to Q: 'more or less to divert his mind from her paranoia, from the home break-in, from the fact that he was increasingly suspecting that she was losing her mind. ... And Jeremy had far too many better options for her to be flirting with total vulnerability right now.' (c)
Q:
She felt secretly grateful that she wouldn’t have to spread her legs for him a second time today. (c)
Q:
Clara was also Jeremy’s little plaything, the sex object dolled up in silk and lace, waiting to be used whenever the need struck him. (c) Now, that's quite a marriage to behold.
Anyway, why wasn't this stuff resolved?
Her dynamics with neighbours is spectacular:
Q:
Jackie Hazley, the bombshell blonde from two doors down, was power walking down the sidewalk toward her.
...
She looked resplendent in the labial wedgie of her yoga pants, her flat abs ending in a hot pink sports bra doing its part to support her surgically enhanced breasts. (c) Nasty.
Q:
“Oh, right… I just had some time before I have to get dinner started and thought I’d burn some extra calories. Can you believe how hot it is?”…
“Yeah, kind of… We’re in the South.” (c)
Q:
Jackie called after her, “Clara?”
“Yes, Jackie?”
The woman seemed confused. “Your mail. Weren’t you going to check your mail?”
* * *
Clara entered her house, tossing the mail on a side table and locking the front door. Her eyes were burning with tears now, and she angrily wiped them away. (c)
Other stuff:
Q:
… three grams’ worth of ashwagandha root extract and six grams of glycine. (c) That's way too much, actually. No big wonder she wasn't sleeping.
Q:
How could things be any worse than losing her marriage to Jeremy, and then reliving the horrors of combat in her sleep? Answer: losing your marriage, and then reliving those horrors combined with your former platoonmates turning into zombies. That’s a fun little twist, now isn’t it? (c)
Q:
You’re Clara Swanner, a genuine warrior princess. I’ve seen a lot of people who became killers after multiple deployments, but you’re the only person I ever served with who was born that way, and showed it on their first gunfight. (c)
August 22, 2020
Ah..The Things many people go through when trying to sleep..Nightmares, many brought upon by real life situations that person has been in..So is the case for author Clara Swanner, living through PTSD after her time in the military, when she made some decisions that saw the end of many folks, enemy and private citizens alike..She struggles to be her best each day, a mother and wife to her husband and young son..But it gets harder every minute..Insomnia has taken everything, and nothing she has tried can make it better..
She calls her best friend, Kyle, a man who served with her and knows the thoughts and horror that encompasses everything..He tells her of a friend who saw a doctor who helped him greatly. He has done some great things for veterans with an experimental treatment..Happy to try Anything Clara makes an appointment...And The real nightmare has just begun..
A story in which the author skillfully winds you up, you are right there with Clara, with thoughts so intolerable you want to Get Out..Anyway you can..Then he may let you breathe a bit, as you and Clara both get some sleep...But nothing is That easy..And the nightmare goes On..and on..
A thriller that you find yourself reading until it's Done, just so YOU can Sleep..I received an ARC from the author and offer You my honest thoughts and feelings in this review.
She calls her best friend, Kyle, a man who served with her and knows the thoughts and horror that encompasses everything..He tells her of a friend who saw a doctor who helped him greatly. He has done some great things for veterans with an experimental treatment..Happy to try Anything Clara makes an appointment...And The real nightmare has just begun..
A story in which the author skillfully winds you up, you are right there with Clara, with thoughts so intolerable you want to Get Out..Anyway you can..Then he may let you breathe a bit, as you and Clara both get some sleep...But nothing is That easy..And the nightmare goes On..and on..
A thriller that you find yourself reading until it's Done, just so YOU can Sleep..I received an ARC from the author and offer You my honest thoughts and feelings in this review.
August 24, 2020
This book was the hardest one that I have ever read as far as wanting to pick it up and go back to reading. It should be headed with a warning for people with PTSD that it is graphic and you touch areas that are sensitive to combat veterans even though it was based on Afghanistan and a Mosque the reactions of the soldiers involved transcends different actions and different decades. As a Vietnam Vet I find reading and booze a great escape from everyday life and a way to forget . Taking you’re life is not the answer making it count to honor those that gave theirs is a better answer.
December 5, 2020
Jason Kasper is my top choice for military, adventure fiction. He has added a new genre to his writing quiver – bywriting an exceptional psychological thriller. Kasper’s book follows a combat veteran- Clara, as she struggled with PTS (Post Traumatic Stress), through unexpected twists, plot turns, and of course, lots of action that readers expect from Kasper. As a base-jumping author himself, I suspect that Jason Kasper is an adrenaline-junkie, which is not a bad thing. Agree with other readers, who note that this book starts out a LITTLE slower, since he has to set the stage for an entirely new cast of characters separate from the American Mercenary Series, and Spider Heist thriller. Kasper describes the desperation of a military PTS sufferer, who is willing to go to almost any lengths to “make it stop.” And Kasper’s description of experimental PTS treatment certainly reminiscent of both ethical and unethical medicos who attempt to either help suffering veterans or help themselves. Although some very emotional fiction, the author’s depiction of the suffering of PTS (Post traumatic stress) could be case studies in any military or psychiatric medical textbook. This book grabs the reader very quickly, and makes it hard to be a book that is easily put into a mutli-day read. This book should be on a VA must-read list before taking care of our GWOT veterans. Strong work, Ranger Kasper.
August 22, 2024
Whoa! So well written and a total page-turner!
The author is a former Ranger and Green Beret so he really focused on the military and combat part of this book.
Clara Swanner is a former military lieutenant who has come back from a terrible combat tour. She is now a novelist looking to try and cure her PTSD. She spends sleepless nights drinking to excess hoping for a bit of sleep and enough energy to participate in family life with her husband and young son.
When a fellow platoon mate tells her of a new treatment that might help, she goes all in for an infusion. Initially it helps, but then she starts having hallucinations that scare her.
The mystery is figuring out if she is just nuts or if something more sinister is going on.
This felt very personal since I'm married to a combat veteran who has some scary stories. Also our youngest went through an infusion treatment for depression that made him have paranoid thoughts.
The author seamlessly blends Clara's thoughts/memories/flashbacks. This is an edge of your seat thriller! I will definitely check out more of his works!
The author is a former Ranger and Green Beret so he really focused on the military and combat part of this book.
Clara Swanner is a former military lieutenant who has come back from a terrible combat tour. She is now a novelist looking to try and cure her PTSD. She spends sleepless nights drinking to excess hoping for a bit of sleep and enough energy to participate in family life with her husband and young son.
When a fellow platoon mate tells her of a new treatment that might help, she goes all in for an infusion. Initially it helps, but then she starts having hallucinations that scare her.
The mystery is figuring out if she is just nuts or if something more sinister is going on.
This felt very personal since I'm married to a combat veteran who has some scary stories. Also our youngest went through an infusion treatment for depression that made him have paranoid thoughts.
The author seamlessly blends Clara's thoughts/memories/flashbacks. This is an edge of your seat thriller! I will definitely check out more of his works!
August 31, 2020
His best book yet (and when I say they're all good, that's telling)
As part of the author's review team, I had the chance to read this book as an advance copy, and the Maker knows it was more than worth it!
Dark? Yes, immensely dark, with accents of horror worthy of Stephen King, but à la Jason Kasper, entering the mind of an army veteran in more ways than one, in a twisted and sometimes horrific manner, revisiting events of her past, while also uncovering a series of mysterious suicides in her platoon, following their release from the military.
I will not lie: it was a tough read, mentally. But a very worthy one. If you think that the David Rivers books are tough, they are small potatoes compared to this one.
Then again, I cannot recommend it enough.
As part of the author's review team, I had the chance to read this book as an advance copy, and the Maker knows it was more than worth it!
Dark? Yes, immensely dark, with accents of horror worthy of Stephen King, but à la Jason Kasper, entering the mind of an army veteran in more ways than one, in a twisted and sometimes horrific manner, revisiting events of her past, while also uncovering a series of mysterious suicides in her platoon, following their release from the military.
I will not lie: it was a tough read, mentally. But a very worthy one. If you think that the David Rivers books are tough, they are small potatoes compared to this one.
Then again, I cannot recommend it enough.
August 31, 2020
Jason Kasper masters a real life scenario of PTSD and the tragic collateral damage it causes to the subject and those dear to them. Clara Swanner a mother, wife and established / active author is living a demanding life. She has been reliving her combat times daily and self medicates with alcohol to get her needed sleep. A friend reaches out to her with a promising cure of PTSD; she checks it out and begins the battle of her life.
Her Dark Silence is a surreal ride through the worst of trauma a human can experience. This story is so real I could identify with some the experience that Clara and her comrades went through. Well written and healing.
Her Dark Silence is a surreal ride through the worst of trauma a human can experience. This story is so real I could identify with some the experience that Clara and her comrades went through. Well written and healing.
August 31, 2020
Clara is one of many veterans coming home from Afghanistan that has been in battle to suffer PTSD. She is unable to sleep and hears about a Dr Jannesson that has helped with this problem. After her first treatment she is able to sleep longer, but has recurring nightmares. She has hallucinations. She investigates Jannesson and finds out some interesting facts about him. This is one novel that will keep your interest until the heart pounding ending.
September 7, 2020
This is a new type of book from Jason Kasper. It is much darker than his other stories. This book gives us a really intimate insight into someone suffering from PTSD and how it affects their life and the lives of those around them. It makes your heart kind of heavy to learn what some of our Veterans are having to go through. And we really wish more could be done to help them. It also contains a mystery and twists and turns that make a good story. I recommend this book.
September 13, 2020
I'm a huge fan of Jason's David Rivers and Blair Morgan novels, and wasn't sure how this one would be.
But boy am I glad I started it.
Many others have given a synopsis of the book, so I won't elaborate. All I will say is this story is a must read.
The research and attention to detail that has gone into this story is amazing. I hope the author will have the opportunity to write another stand alone story as good as this one.
But boy am I glad I started it.
Many others have given a synopsis of the book, so I won't elaborate. All I will say is this story is a must read.
The research and attention to detail that has gone into this story is amazing. I hope the author will have the opportunity to write another stand alone story as good as this one.
October 21, 2021
Not being in the military I am far from familiar with what those who serve go through. This story helped me gain some understanding, and it is an edge of your seat thriller. I have liked every Jason Kasper book I have read, but this one is something special. I would have preferred no explicit sexual references, which don't seem critical to me to the story, but beyond that, this is a great read.
December 9, 2022
TOO MUCH!!!
Very interesting premise, writing and characters but way too confusing with the constant change between reality, dreaming, fantasy, delusion and drug induced! It was intriguing for a while determining whether it was reality or delusion but became to overwhelming and tedious! So much so I had to scroll quickly through the ending just to see the "non-climatic" outcome.
Very interesting premise, writing and characters but way too confusing with the constant change between reality, dreaming, fantasy, delusion and drug induced! It was intriguing for a while determining whether it was reality or delusion but became to overwhelming and tedious! So much so I had to scroll quickly through the ending just to see the "non-climatic" outcome.
August 31, 2020
PTS among our returning gulf vets is an epidemic -- but imagine being a young woman, with a single tumultuous battle that haunts her memories -- and the added distress of treatment gone bad.
Jason branches out from the Spider series and his in-the-action thrillers with a psychological thriller. I, for one, loved it...
Jason branches out from the Spider series and his in-the-action thrillers with a psychological thriller. I, for one, loved it...
September 7, 2020
A wife , A soldier
Jason Kasper You will not want to put it down. has written another fantastic book so many things happen and a book that makes you think . What a talented man and writer and his books always keep you glued to the story until the end. This book is no exception.
Jason Kasper You will not want to put it down. has written another fantastic book so many things happen and a book that makes you think . What a talented man and writer and his books always keep you glued to the story until the end. This book is no exception.
September 8, 2020
An Excellent Read!
Jason Casper has written an exceptionally good book. My only criticism is it wasn't long enough. The characters are well described and the tension and terror keep you on your toes. I can only say " a job well done" and will anxiously await the next book that Jason writes .
Jason Casper has written an exceptionally good book. My only criticism is it wasn't long enough. The characters are well described and the tension and terror keep you on your toes. I can only say " a job well done" and will anxiously await the next book that Jason writes .
September 17, 2020
Wonderful read, with a great message
Kasper is at his best with another page turner. He draws on his military service and experiences with the men and women he served with- some who returned and some who did not, some who returned to their previously normal lives, some who did not. A realistic story of what our service men and women experience.
Thank you Jason
Kasper is at his best with another page turner. He draws on his military service and experiences with the men and women he served with- some who returned and some who did not, some who returned to their previously normal lives, some who did not. A realistic story of what our service men and women experience.
Thank you Jason
April 15, 2025
This is another great read from this author. It deals with a serious subject of PTS. I have had friends dealing with this and for the most part I didn’t know they were. As a veteran I know it’s a serious problem. I was fortunate that in my 15 years of service I was never sent into combat even though I spent most of my time in a combat specialty.
August 31, 2020
Mr.Kasper has written prior to this book, I was skeptical about a thriller. Not my general genre but I have to admit his storytelling sucked me in almost as much as his previous books. I highly recommend this read as I have all of his previous novels.
September 5, 2020
Outstanding
PTSD is a real thing for people who suffered it. I hope those agencies will help them. They are the front liners. I can't put the book down until I'm done reading .once again Jason did his very best to give it to his fans. More Power to you JK.
PTSD is a real thing for people who suffered it. I hope those agencies will help them. They are the front liners. I can't put the book down until I'm done reading .once again Jason did his very best to give it to his fans. More Power to you JK.
September 18, 2020
Great new characters
After reading all of the David Rivers Series
And the 2 Spider Heist story's
This was a very different type of character and story line
I forgot to say thanks I saw I made it into the story and made it out alive
To serve in an other story
After reading all of the David Rivers Series
And the 2 Spider Heist story's
This was a very different type of character and story line
I forgot to say thanks I saw I made it into the story and made it out alive
To serve in an other story
September 28, 2020
Wow !
Different from the other books that I have read by this author. A little dark but a gripping story. PTSD is a major issue with returning veterans. Unfortunately most of it is untreated. Also, common in first responders.
Different from the other books that I have read by this author. A little dark but a gripping story. PTSD is a major issue with returning veterans. Unfortunately most of it is untreated. Also, common in first responders.
October 11, 2020
Knowledge can be_;0
No matter how much you want to trust ,there almost always is that one person who can't be =honest =..Keeping their wrongdoing silent.. I really enjoy reading this Author..
No matter how much you want to trust ,there almost always is that one person who can't be =honest =..Keeping their wrongdoing silent.. I really enjoy reading this Author..
November 24, 2020
Couldn't put it down!
I don't usually Read thrillers Because they make me too nervous.That was true with this Edge of your seat thriller. I had a hard time putting it down.Best book ever!
I don't usually Read thrillers Because they make me too nervous.That was true with this Edge of your seat thriller. I had a hard time putting it down.Best book ever!
July 25, 2021
Revealing
A good overview of PTS from a fictional character's perspective. Gave me an interest to start researching PTS. I perceive that a lot of Her Dark Silence may be somewhat autobiographical of Jason. Excellent story telling.
A good overview of PTS from a fictional character's perspective. Gave me an interest to start researching PTS. I perceive that a lot of Her Dark Silence may be somewhat autobiographical of Jason. Excellent story telling.
August 27, 2022
One of Jason Kasper's best books. A very solid 4.5. Great writing, that flows naturally, and excellent description of PTS. The scenes moving between reality and hallucinations/dreams were the best. Some echo of Jacob's Ladder, would be interesting to know if there was an influence or not.
August 14, 2020
Author never ceases to amaze! Keeps you intrigued and turning the pages to see what will happen next. A real heart pounder at times!
September 4, 2020
A thriller like no other!
I can't imagine the research to get the information to be able to write a book so realistic, so scary & suspenseful. I could not put it down.
I can't imagine the research to get the information to be able to write a book so realistic, so scary & suspenseful. I could not put it down.
September 5, 2021
Solid PTSD focused thriller.
October 30, 2024
This book is a must-read for those who enjoy dark thrillers. It is hands-down one of the best in its genre and comes highly recommended. Jason Kasper Author Jason Kasper Author
July 29, 2021
Her Dark Silence enters new genre territory for best selling author, Jason Kasper. This thriller/horror novel follows Clara, the main character and war veteran survivor and her platoon, through a hellish PTSD landscape filled with horrific nightmares and graphic violence. Clara's husband and son, her platoon members and a physician are at the heart of the twisted plot. You, the reader, are taken through a labyrinth of distorted reality and Martian terrain at Clara's side, not knowing what is real and what is a dream. A thrilling read of skillfully woven strands of insight and insanity that will entertain and perplex the reader.
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