Can you save the world while damning yourself?
The Silent Season is a neo-noir corporate thriller written from the perspective of a contract killer who insists there’s a right way to murder, even as each escalation sinks him deeper into moral ambiguity, until his principles become weapons in themselves.
Constantly wanting to be more, he deals with loss, love, family, and a world that needs saving. Will these challenges make him stronger, or break him? Or both?
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I flipped the avocado into the air with the tip of the knife, and caught it on the length of the blade
Set against a collapsing society of corporate rot and casual oppression, it’s a story about how systems break people, how violence seduces, and how even the most hardened killer might still carry some sliver of hope, or delusion.
There are no easy answers here. Instead, expect sharp dialogue, visceral action, and unsettling violence, all wrapped in a creeping sense of philosophical unease.
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“You name your weapon because contract killing is a nasty field, where trust and certainty are rare commodities. You might not trust people, but you can trust Melissa, or whatever name you might choose. She is your prisoner and your guardian angel, you are inextricably linked.”
This is not a tale of redemption
The Silent Season doesn’t care what shelf it’s on. Crime noir, corporate thriller, biopunk horror, literary fiction even. It only cares about telling the best story it can. Genre conventions are nothing but tools to it.
Some will call this genre-hopping. I call it writing for an audience who dares to look beyond the framing. This book has something to say about violence, power, and complicity, and it won’t stay in a lane to say it.
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