THE QUIET PART
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THE QUIET PART Book 1
6 parts · 26 h 36 min
Savannah, this year. Nate Cobb is a psychotherapist who is not yet licensed in Georgia, which means that for six weeks he can consult for anybody except a patient.
THE QUIET PART Book 2
6 parts · 24 h 10 min
Palo Alto, this year. A research laboratory has a problem it will not report: one of its safety researchers has spent five months becoming somebody nobody can talk to, and eleven hundred intelligent people are frightened of her and would rather not say so.
THE QUIET PART Book 3
6 parts · 22 h 18 min
Salt Lake City, this year. A direct-sales company with eleven thousand distributors has a problem with its best one: a woman in Bountiful with four hundred people under her has built something the company did not authorize and cannot take back, and she has forty thousand phone numbers.
THE QUIET PART Book 4
6 parts · 23 h 56 min
New York, this year. A private-equity founder of seventy-one has spent five months making succession decisions his partners cannot explain, and for eleven weeks he has been receiving recordings of his own voice saying things he never said.
THE QUIET PART Book 5
6 parts · 24 h 40 min
Kansas City, this year. A food-service distributor with nine warehouses and four thousand two hundred employees has fourteen months of things going wrong that nobody can connect, and one man on the night shift whose behavior has begun to frighten people. Nate Cobb is retained to assess him.
THE QUIET PART Book 6
6 parts · 19 h 47 min
Dallas, this year. A church of eleven thousand people across four campuses has a care team of nine and a pilot program that lets anybody be reached at three in the morning, and in February it does something no human being in that building had the hours to do: it notices a man of sixty-one nobody had noticed.
THE QUIET PART Book 7
6 parts · 20 h 0 min
Seattle, this year. A cloud provider with four thousand nine hundred employees runs an insider-risk program built on a framework Nate Cobb published in 2018, run by somebody who has read every word he has written and who disagreed with his caveats for reasons that are good.
THE QUIET PART Book 8
6 parts · 21 h 58 min
Los Angeles, this year. A studio of thirty people operates a performer with eleven million followers who does not exist, and a man in Bakersfield has been writing to her for three years, and the studio wants a threat assessment.
THE QUIET PART Book 9
6 parts · 21 h 48 min
Denver, this year. A defense contractor runs a research program on how populations are influenced, and one of its eleven researchers has filed a security incident report on herself that nobody can find any evidence for.
THE QUIET PART Book 10
6 parts · 19 h 32 min
Cambridge, Massachusetts, this year. A university laboratory has built a system that conducts the clinical interview, and it is better than Nate Cobb at the one thing he has been paid for since 2010, which is noticing the sentence somebody starts and does not finish.
THE QUIET PART Book 11
6 parts · 20 h 43 min
An island in the Bering Sea, this year. A monitoring station with eleven people on it has had a supervisor resign by radio in the middle of a winter block, and two of the remaining crew have not spoken to each other since October, and the operator cannot fly everybody out.
THE QUIET PART Book 12
6 parts · 18 h 27 min
Santa Barbara, this year. A foundation endowed with fourteen million dollars nine years ago has a trustee its board would like assessed, and the counsel who asks is the counsel from Savannah, which means that for the first time in twelve years a client has come back. The trustee is the daughter.