by Michael Connelly (Author)
Henry Pierce has a whole new life - new apartment, new telephone, and 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'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 him deeper into a web of inescapable intricacy - and a decision that could cost him everything he owns and holds dear. "Chasing the Dime" has the irresistible velocity of film classics like "The Maltese Falcon" and "Chinatown", but with the extraordinary writing and style that have made Michael Connelly 'a crime-writing genius' ("Independent on Sunday").
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Orion
Published: 07 Nov 2002
ISBN 10: 0752821415
ISBN 13: 9780752821412
Book Overview: MGM optioned the movie rights for CHASING THE DIME from the same film producers who did the films of Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton Connelly's last three novels have been Guardian Paperback Fastsellers CITY OF BONES has sold 100,000 copies in the trade and reached no 2 position on the Sunday Times bestseller list A DARKNESS MORE THAN NIGHT spent 5 weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list and the paperback reached no 2 BLOOD WORK was shortlisted for an Edgar Award, ANGELS FLIGHT for the Gold Dagger BLOOD WORK, the movie starring Clint Eastwood as Terry McCaleb, was released in autumn 2002. Major movie deals in place for all Connelly's other novels Connelly gets consistently brilliant reviews