"Silent Partner" unfolds with elements projecting dubiety through characters and frameworks in a unique way. A few pages further, we get a feeling that this is going to be some sort of fact-finding pursuit that would involve the protagonist unearthing startling truths about the life of his ex-girlfriend. Here and there, I felt the whole quest getting diffused, and labyrinthine, and the jaded readers are pushed to expect the book to end with some closure for the sake of ending it. It's at the same time, very interesting and elucidative to learn about the mechanisms of the cognitive side controlled by the Human brain. In our life, we hope for a lot of things to happen and hence we compartmentalize our thoughts according to those predictions. During this preparation, there is also a fair chance that we come across different characters, and get ourselves into different roles that would help us handle those situations effortlessly, with a huge amount of denial. It is very