Chasing The Dime

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Goodreads Rating: 3.96 of 5 stars

Title: Chasing The Dime
Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Published Date: 2002
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback Pocket Book
Livros em Inglês
Literatura > Mystery > Crime
ISBN 10: 0752855905
ISBN 13: 9780752855905

Synopsis
Would you risk your life for a woman you´d never met?
Henry Pierce has a whole new life new apartment, new telephone, new telephone number. But the first time he checks his messages, he discovers that someone had the number before him. The messages on his line are for a woman named Lilly, and she is in some kind of serious trouble. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly´s world, and it´s unlike any world he´s ever known. It is a nighttime world of escort services, websites, sex, and secret identities. Pierce tumbles through a hole, abandoning his orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman he has never met.
Pierce´s skills as a computer entrepreneur allow him to trace Lilly´s last days with some precision. But every step into Lilly´s past takes Pierce deeper into a web of inescapable intricacy and a decision that could cost him everything he owns and holds dear.

Review
Named one of the Best Books Of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times

"Connelly diabolically teases readers with bits of exposition while scaring the hell out of them in the most accomplished slice of Hitchcock since the Master´s heyday. The result is a tour de force of nerve-shredding suspense." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Connelly´s plotting is shrink-wrap tight, his characters... are smartly drawn. It´s the rare reader who will be able to finger the villain behind all the mayhem. ...this is the perfect book for a long airplane ride..." Publishers Weekly

"...it´s a grabber from the beginning, and the subject matter is utterly compelling. ...marvelously detailed particulars of both experimental computing and online sex for hire. Connelly brings the two worlds together in a slam-bang finale that will leave fans gasping." Booklist

""Chasing the Dime" creates a scarily high-tech brand of intrigue. Mr. Connelly is a spare, expeditious storyteller with a natural talent for generating forward momentum." Janet Maslin, New York Times

"With each chapter, Connelly tests his hero and achieves his full potential as an author." USA Today

"As one of today´s top crime novelists, Michael Connelly does many things well. The strongest aspect of his writing, however, may be his ability to create atmosphere, and his compellingly readable new thriller, "Chasing the Dime," has it in spades." Connor Ennis, Associated Press

"From the compelling beginning to an action-packed finale, Connelly will have readers Chasing the Dime." Oline Cogdill, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

"...a penetrating look at the power of curiosity to change a life, whether it´s applied to inventing molecular computers or tracking a mysterious call girl. ...Taking a supergeek who spends all his time in an underground, copper-clad lab and forcing him to apply scientific method to peer into the sleazy corners of the real world is a stroke of pure brilliance." The Times-Picayune