false <![CDATA[Chasing the Dime]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168391419m/32507.jpg 32507 26 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 <I>The Concrete Blonde</I>.) 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. <I>--Jane Adams</I> 2758504 2002 Chasing the Dime total:1547|5:270|4:588|3:536|2:119|1:34| 1547 5582 1960 94 2 0 false false Wed Nov 26 18:19:41 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 18:24:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 19:15:47 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 19:15:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 04 22:37:55 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 22:43:18 -0700 2009
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Narrator: Jonathan Davis
Publisher: Hachette Audio, 2002
Length: 10 hours and 26 min.

Publisher's Summary
The messages waiting for Henry Pierce when he plugs in his new telephone clearly aren't intended for him:
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Still a fun read.]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 14:06:01 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 14:06:20 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Aug 29 05:10:07 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 05:12:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 15:41:04 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 15:42:20 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 11 14:53:29 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 15:11:35 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 05 16:51:18 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 16:51:18 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 16:09:56 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 05:53:37 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 23:54:31 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 23:55:30 -0700 2009 The main character is a computer entrepeneur who is being set up for a big fall and framed for a murder. ]]> 0 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 17:40:08 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 17:34:22 -0700 2009
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