SILENCE 2 takes place four decades after the events in the first book. The new Confluence Republic is brimming with magic power, but old enemies are returning. Investigators find evidence of an Elder snatching someone''''s body, and dimensional explorers are attacked by shadow creatures planted by unknown foes. As they discover that the Erd author starts writing a book about what is happening - almost at the same time as it happens - the Special Circumstances division assembles a team to deal with the situation.