Download or read book A Deadly Silence written by Dena Kleiman and published by . This book was released on 1988-10-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To stop her father's sexual abuse--abuse that had started before she was 12--Cheryl Pierson and her boyfriend paidl Cheryl's father, James Pierson. New York Times reporter Dena Kleiman pieces together this psychological jigsaw of a crime within a crime and explores this undercurrent of violence that permeates the American family.