The Man Who Was Allergic To Silence

<p>Ethan Cole's life was ordinary-spectacularly boringly ordinary-until the day silence tried to kill him. After a disastrous breakup and a job where he's barely noticed Ethan is desperate for a change. But the last thing he expects is to develop a bizarre condition: whenever a room becomes completely silent he begins to hear strangers confessing their darkest secrets-confessions happening somewhere else spoken by people he has never met. Not hallucinations... more like accidental eavesdropping from a distance. What starts as a nuisance becomes a strange curse. Silence triggers chaos. Silence makes him dizzy. Silence reveals truths Ethan has no business knowing-cheating lovers stolen money hidden plans and one chilling confession that pulls him into a world he can't ignore: I'm going to finish the job tonight. Nobody will ever know what happened to her. Terrified yet driven by a moral itch he can't suppress Ethan tries to uncover who said those words. But how do you solve a crime when the only clue you have is a voice you heard because your apartment became too quiet? With the help of Mia Rivera a sharp loud and endearingly chaotic neighbor who believes Ethan's condition might be the universe screaming at him he begins tracing mismatched clues across Amsterdam's canals. The pair stumble through comedy-filled mishaps-mistaken identities a disastrous silent meditation retreat a choir rehearsal gone wrong and an interrogation involving a karaoke machine-yet somehow find themselves closing in on the truth. But someone else is also closing in on them. Ethan's unwanted gift becomes the only thing keeping him alive. And the silence he fears becomes the very weapon the villain uses against him. The Man Who Was Allergic to Silence is a fresh globally appealing comedy-thriller about fear courage human connection and how the smallest strangest flaw in a man's life becomes the key to stopping a crime nobody else can hear. It's witty heartfelt suspenseful and profoundly relatable-a story about a man learning to listen not just to the world... but to himself.</p>