A Mysterious Review of …
Dead Anyway by Chris Knopf.
Review summary: This is an intricately crafted, superbly plotted crime novel. It's hard — probably impossible — to say much about the plot without giving away too much of what happens, so suffice it to say this is a most entertaining storyline. There are a few problems that slightly mar the experience, but none of them should prevent one from reading this excellent novel. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Dead Anyway
Chris Knopf
The Permanent Press (September 2012)
Publisher synopsis: Imagine this: You have a nice life. You love your beautiful, successful wife. You're an easygoing guy working out of your comfortable Connecticut home. The world is an interesting, pleasant place.
Then in seconds it's all gone. You're still alive, but the world thinks you're dead. And now you have to decide. Make it official, or go after the evil that took it all away from you.
Arthur Cathcart, market researcher and occasional finder of missing persons, decides to live on a fight, by doing what he knows best — figuring things out, without revealing his status as a living breathing human being. Much easier said than done in a post- 9/11 world, where everything about yourself and all the tools you need to live a modern life are an open book. How do you become a different person, how do you finance an elaborate scheme without revealing yourself? How do you force a reckoning with the worst people on earth, as a dead man?
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