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by: Michael Connelly  List Price: $31.98 Price: $31.15 You Save: $0.83 ( 3%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781586214494 Edition: Abridged Format: Abridged, Audiobook ISBN: 1586214497 Label: Hachette Audio Manufacturer: Hachette Audio Number Of Items: 5 Publication Date: 2002-10 Publisher: Hachette Audio Studio: Hachette Audio Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: 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 Product Description: From #1 bestselling author Michael Connelly, a searing thriller about a simple wrong number that opens a line into terror. 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 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 world 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. 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 owns and holds dear. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Dreadful, moronic book from a (generally) great writerThis 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. ... Read More Rating: - Save Your DimeI'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. Rating:  - A Cerebral Crime Story That Improves Past Mid PointWhat 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 ... Read More Rating: - Success againAnother 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. Rating:  - not bad for a non-Bosch bookThis 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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