Chasing The Dime [Paperback]

Chasing the Dime starts a suspenseful urban nightmare with the simplest of things--a wrong number. Nanotechnology expert Henry Pierce has been working too hard--his girlfriend Nicole has thrown him out for it--and moves into a new apartment, where the phone continually rings with calls for Lily, a high-price call girl with her own Web site; Henry, whose prostitute sister was murdered by a serial killer, has his own reasons for worrying about her safety and cannot let things alone. When he should be registering patents and pursuing finance, he spends days using the hacker skills he and his friend Cody devised at college to track her down, along the way falling foul of brutal gangster Wentz and suspicious cop Renner; the thing about Henry, both as scientist and man, is that he is obsessively curious.

Most of Michael Connolly's books have dealt with cops either working within the rules or bending them; here he has an intelligent, highly logical man making up investigatory leg-work as he goes along, and realising as he works that he is as much pursued as pursuer, and that it is not only his own demons that are chasing him. Chasing the Dime is a gruelling puzzle from a master of misdirection and suspense. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Connelly is a former polic reporter for the LA Times, and attention to detail is perhaps one of the hallmarks of his work. In this, computer engineer Henry Pierce has a whole new life - new aprtment, new telephone and new telephone number. But he finds messages left for the woman who had the number beforehim, and becomes drawn into her troubled, somewhat seedy and definitely dangerous world in this intriguing and well-crafted novel.' THE INDEPENDENT 50 Best Books to Read on Holiday 28/6/03

REVIEWS LITERARY REVIEW - 'Immaculately and inventively plotted' GUARDIAN - 9 November DAILY MAIL - 29 November SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - review 8 December OBSERVER - review 29 December HELLO - 26 November EVENING STANDARD - Christmas Books round up 9/12/02 TIME OUT - 'a taut thriller that defies the reader to put it down' IRISH INDEPENDENT - 'Thrill-a-minute stuff and impeccably researched, Chasing the Dime is such a good read you don't miss Connelly's Harry Bosch character at all.' SUNDAY TRIBUNE - review 15 December BIRMINGHAM POST - 'Spare, tense and cleverly plotted, Connelly, once again, doesn't miss a trick.' CRIME TIME - 'Chasing the Dime has all the best facets of a good Hitchcock film thrown into sharp relief ... once again Connelly shows he's the master of character-led dramas that are shot through with energy, pace and, above all, authenticity.' PUBLISHING NEWS - 'a considerable piece of work from a highly skilled author.' LIVERPOOL ECHO - 'Connelly's genius is in virtuoso characterisation bettered by few fiction writers working today.' PETERBOROUGH EVENING --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From #1 bestselling author Michael Connelly, a searing thriller about a simple wrong number that opens a line into terror.

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 night-time 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 traces Lilly's last days, but every step into her past takes him deeper into a web of inescapable intricacy - and a decision that could cost him everything he owns and holds dear . . .

A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the author of twelve acclaimed Harry Bosch thrillers and several other bestselling novels. He lives in Tampa, Florida, with his wife and daughter.