Pete Fernandez is a mess. He s on the brink of being fired from his middle-management newspaper job. His fiancée has up and left him. Now after the sudden death of his father he s back in his hometown of Miami slowly drinking himself into oblivion. But when a coworker he barely knows asks Pete to locate a missing daughter Pete finds himself dragged into a tale of murder drugs double crosses and memories bursting from the black heart of the Miami underworld--and shockingly his father s past. Making it up as he goes and stumbling as often as he succeeds Pete s surreptitious quest becomes the wake-up call he s never wanted but has always needed--but one with deadly consequences. Welcome to Silent City a story of redemption broken friendships lost loves and one man s efforts to make peace with a long-buried past to save the lives of the few friends he has left. Silent City is a gritty heartfelt debut novel that harkens back to classic PI tales but infused with the Miami that only Alex Segura knows.