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The Thunder and the Silence
Paperback
General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 5 2025
Pages: 598
Weight: 1.74
Height: 1.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The world knows the thunder of his genius: the inventor, the diplomat, the revolutionary.
This is the story of the silence.
From the dark print shops of Boston to the shadowed alleys of revolutionary Paris, Benjamin Franklin walks a solitary path. His ambition is a storm that tears through his life, splitting him from his wife, his son, and the private man he might have been.
This is not the Franklin of history books. This is a man haunted by the son he lost to smallpox, torn apart by the son who chose the Crown, and stalked by the silence of the wife he left to die alone, an ocean away.
For readers of Wolf Hall's political shadows and Hamnet's intimate grief, The Thunder and the Silence lays bare the man behind the myth-a man forced to choose between building a nation and saving his own family.
A story of genius and its cost, of revolution and regret. What is the price of greatness, and who is left to pay it?
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