Paradime
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- €8.49
Publisher Description
After a stint as a private contractor in Afghanistan, Danny Lynch is back in New York. But nothing's easy. Work is hard to find and his girlfriend owes more than $30,000 in student loans. Danny is also haunted by something he witnessed at the base - a fact that could ultimately destroy him.
Then he spots Teddy Trager, tech visionary and billionaire. These two men couldn't be more different - except for one thing: in appearance, they're identical.
Danny becomes obsessed with Trager, and before long this member of the ninety-nine per cent is passing undetected into the gilded realm of the one per cent. But what does Danny find there? Who does he become? And is there a route home?
From the prize winning author of Limitless, Paradime is a novel for fans of the great '70s conspiracy thrillers, rebooted for today's ever-globalising world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Edgar-finalist Glynn (Limitless) updates The Prince and the Pauper in this breezy thriller set in the financial world. Danny Lynch, an Iraq and Afghanistan vet with mental-health problems, receives a letter that eventually leads to a job at an upscale Manhattan restaurant, where he spies his look-alike, Teddy Trager, a venture capitalist who runs Paradime Capital. Danny becomes obsessed with his doppelganger and quits his job, much to his girlfriend's dismay. After Danny succeeds in impersonating Teddy at business meetings and in sexual dalliances with Teddy's girlfriend, he boldly forges business documents. Then he meets Teddy face to face. When Teddy is killed, Danny is recruited to pose as Teddy to maintain Paradime's business deals. But of course, Danny is just a puppet. By the time Danny realizes what he has lost and who is manipulating his new life and identity, readers will be several steps ahead of him. Only in the last two chapters does Glynn put an interesting spin on this familiar conceit.
Customer Reviews
PARADIME
I really enjoyed this book. It's not often you get to the end of a book and go "Wow". And in this case it a bit more of a lower case "wow". Is this where the story ends? Is this the endgame of all the experiences our "hero" has to go through?
Our hero is presented as a decent but not quite reliable witness: all the signs are that he may be suffering from PTSD following his venture in Afghanistan. A lot happens but how it concludes is strangely bizarre, utterly human and yet too personal is anticipate.
Like Glynn's The Dark Fields, and the Winterland, Bloodland and Graveland sequels, we are driven into intrigure, conspiracy and abuse of power and what sticks above all is the humancondition.