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Title: Paradime
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Alan Glynn
Narrator: Will Damron
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-03-16
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
From Alan Glynn, the award-winning author of Limitless, comes a novel of a 21st century identity crisis that will thrill you from minute one.
Danny Lynch didn't sign up for this, but right now it's all he's got. Three weeks ago he was working at a chow hall in Afghanistan and - more or less - doing fine. Sure, this meant living in a war zone, but he was never in the line of fire, and frankly the money was hard to resist.
Then Danny saw something he shouldn't have, and now he's back in New York City, haunted by what sent him home and lucky to be employed at all, even if that means dicing carrots for ten hours a day in a stuffy Midtown restaurant. The job's one saving grace? A sight line from his prep station in the kitchen to a coveted corner table in the main room. For Danny this is a window into the lives of some of Barcadero's flashy clientele - and one evening he sees a man who looks exactly like him.
Teddy Trager is the visionary founder of the billion-dollar investment firm Paradime Capital. He has everything Danny never knew he wanted - cashmere suits, a sleek sports car, privilege, power - and the closer Danny looks at Trager, the more fixated he becomes.
Critic Reviews:
"Scarily plausible.... There are, as the publishers claim, echoes of John le Carré, 24, and James Ellroy here, but Glynn's talent is all his own." (The Guardian)
Members Reviews:
Another unputdownable book from this writer.
Alan Glynn has once again disproved my personal claim to be a slow reader. Like all his other books, I read this one at the same pace as the movements of the characters and the plot, that is to say very fast. It's one of those novels where you try to tell yourself to be reasonable, turn out the light and go to sleep and then you promise yourself that you're just going to read a very few lines of the next chapter -and wham! next thing you know it's 4am and you now only have two and half hours of sleep left before you have to get up.
As the story kicks off I first though this plot is going to be very much along the lines of Glynn's trilogy books where the his biting criticism of corporate greed and the total lack of corporate social responsibility in our world get exposed in a very real and convincing way. In Paradime we are quickly drawn into the very nasty world of the exploitation of war for financial gain. However, the reader almost feels frustrated at the main protagonist's inaction and his stubborn unwillingness to set the world right. You keep waiting for the penny to drop and for the author to make his hero see that he must do his duty and denounce the awful goings-on in this big bad world. But instead of that the story seems to completely change and move onto a different plot altogether, only it...well I think I'd better let you read for yourself what happens.
Alan Glynn is a master of the short snappy but perfectly appropriate phrase which I can only suppose is the technique that keeps both the story and the reader running along at break-neck pace. Yet he finds time and space for some gems too:
"Forget Afghanistan. Forget Iraq. Forget Vietnam.