Chasing the Dime
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (623 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1478908033 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Even geeks have intrigue. A wrong number leads to the main character, Henry Pierce, to begin a welfare check on the mystery woman whose phone number he was assigned. His hunt begins with delving into the underbelly of digital sex and leads him right into a very clever and devious trap, but why and who did this and why him? Chasing the dime means basically doing nothi. BoomerBuyer said Ok but stupiest protagonist ever.. I was angry with the author over this one and tried to quit reading it several times. The protagonist was such a putz, so incredible, that i almost couldnt believe it was Connellybut I still turned the pages to see how this putz was going to survive. That page-turning push is classic Connelly. Not a believable story at all, contrived and far. Amazon Customer said Maddening - Defies Rational Consideration. Honestly, I could not bring myself to finish reading the book. That's saying something since I've read most of Connelly's novels more than twice and am anxiously awaiting the second season of Bosch. Now, why couldn't I finish reading it? Henry Pierce is supposedly a very bright person. Yet he cannot avoid blundering into situations that a sl
As Pierce tries to help a woman he has never met, he steps into a world of escorts, websites, sex, and secret passions. The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren't for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It's on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he's been "chasing the dime"--doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. A world where his success and expertise mean nothingand where he becomes the chief suspect in a murder case, trapped in the fight of his life.. But he can't get the messages for Lilly out of his head
Despite those holes in the plot and a less than compelling protagonist, the novel succeeds due to Connelly's literary and expository gifts and his more interesting secondary characters. With the same single-mindedness that made him a high-tech superstar, Pierce pursues his search for the missing girl, motivated by his guilt over the disappearance years earlier of his own sister, who, like Lilly, was also a prostitute (and ultimately the victim of the Dollmaker, a serial killer from Connelly's 1994 novel The Concrete Blonde.) But that motive is too thin to support Pi