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| Chasing the Dime | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Category: EBooks
List Price: $7.99
Buy New: $6.39
You Save: $1.60 (20%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  (224 reviews)
Sales Rank: 6620
Format: Kindle Book
Language: English (Published)
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B000FC1MN2
Publication Date: October 15, 2002
Release Date: October 15, 2002
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Product Description
Henry Price 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. Price is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world, and it's unlike any place he's ever known. It is a nighttime world of escort services, web sites, sex, and secret identities. Price tumbles through a hole, abandoning his orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman he has never met. Price'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 Price deeper into a web of inescapable intricacy-and a decision that could cost him everything he holds dear.
Amazon.com Review
Henry Pierce is about to become very rich--as soon as his firm, Amedeo Technologies, gets an infusion of capital from a big backer. But the brilliant chemist's workaholic habits are disrupted when his lover, the former intelligence officer of his company, breaks up with him. Lonely and dispirited, he moves into a new apartment and gets a new phone number that attracts a lot of callers, but not for him. His new telephone number seems to have previously belonged to one Lilly Quinlan, an escort whose Internet photo arouses Henry's curiosity, especially when L.A. Darlings, whose Web page features the beautiful young woman, can't tell Henry how to find her. 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 Pierce's sudden abandonment of his career at such a critical juncture, even if forces unknown to him are setting him up for a fall. 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. --Jane Adams
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 Dreadful, moronic book from a (generally) great writer December 24, 2008
This was the only book of Michael Connelly's that I hadn't yet read. I'm a big Bosch fan and all the other books (Terry McCaleb etc) were mostly excellent. So I simply can't believe that this was written by the same author. It was dreadful and an insult to my intelligence. Mr. Connelly: if you read this review, please refund me my money. Get this: the plot develops only because the genius inventor hasn't yet filed his patents before raising money from the evil investor. THIS SIMPLY CAN'T HAPPEN. NOBODY IS THAT STUPID. You file your patent applications and then you disclose the technology, and then people invest in your copmany. The evil investor wants to 'steal the patents' and presumably file them under his own name. Never mind that this would legally invalidate the patents. And now it's a race against time as the company's patent attorney takes the red-eye to the US Patent Office. FedEx? Express Mail? Hello? Hello? Anybody out there? Mr. Connelly? Hello?
Save Your Dime October 27, 2008
I'm a huge Michael Connelly fan. This is certainly his weakest effort. The characters aren't believable. The plot does not flow. Drama is lacking. Give this one a pass.
 A Cerebral Crime Story That Improves Past Mid Point October 7, 2008
What do nanotechnology (making molecular-sized devices), call girls, pornography, going public, and extortion have in common? They're all part of a most unusual crime story in Chasing the Dime.
Instead of following noir homicide detective Harry Bosch on the track of a violent criminal, this book is about Henry (don't call me "Hank") Pierce, a genius CEO who has cracked the code on an amazing new technology and who is poised to capitalize on his success by selling off a piece of the company to a "whale" investor. A typical lab rat, Pierce has let that fixation on amazing science destroy his relationship with the love of his life. After moving out, he's thrown off kilter by repeated calls to his new telephone number by men at local hotels looking to hook up with Lilly Quinlan. Intrigued, Pierce has to know more. That decision turns his over-sized IQ into learn-on-the-job bit of amateur detection. Despite being warned to get back to the lab, Pierce pushes on. Will curiosity kill the lab rat?
This story seems odd. Most people don't pick up Michael Connelly books to read about molecular biology. In addition, having a scientist become fixated on a call girl he's never met seems weird. I almost didn't keep going. I would rate the book's first half as a two-star effort.
Connelly hits his strike, however, after mid point in the book, and the plot becomes surprising, interesting, and irresistible. Be patient. The five-star second half lifts the weak beginning (which should have been edited down quite a bit) into an above average story.
But if you are looking for Harry Bosch (or a reasonable facsimile), you won't like this story very much. Unless you feel compelled to read every book written by Michael Connelly, you can certainly skip this book and not miss anything you really have to read.
The book's lack of adequate editing can be found in the many mindless repetitions of Pierce calling the lights on and off in his offices (a "high" technology PR stunt) and talking about how his science is going to "change the world." There's a reason why some people don't enjoy hanging out with geeky scientists: Their dialogue sometimes doesn't thrill. Connelly should have chosen to ignore the stereotype and let Pierce be able to vary his language in interesting ways.
Success again September 3, 2008
Another entertaining read by Mr. Connelly. Suspenseful in all the right places while keeping a complex plot within the realm of understanding. A fun read worth picking up.
 not bad for a non-Bosch book July 23, 2008
This is my 3rd Connelly - Non-Bosch book - and I liked it. It is not Harry Bosch and not the Lincoln Lawyer - but it is a good read. I am ready for a new Bosch book!!!
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