After Silence is the eighth novel by the American writer Jonathan Carroll, published in 1992.

[2] It tells the story of a successful cartoonist, the protagonist Max Fischer, who fell in love with a woman.

LA Times Reviewer Susan Heeger, thought the plot had a strong design, but was not expertly told: "Carroll's book doesn't rise above the level of an intriguing cautionary tale over-directed by someone anxious to get his point across.

"[2] Publishers Weekly had a much more positive review, writing that the novel is "An electrifying, unforgettable novel that unfolds with the logic of a Greek tragedy, Carroll's parable on moral cowardice [has an] uncompromising honesty about how secrets gnaw and kill.

"[3] The London Review of Books describes the novel as representing the American "everyday" with "delicate descriptions".