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Paradime: A Novel
Paradime: A Novel
Paradime: A Novel
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Paradime: A Novel

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From Alan Glynn, the award-winning author of Limitless, comes a novel of a twenty-first-century identity crisis that will thrill you from page 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.

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Release dateAug 2, 2016
ISBN9781250061836
Paradime: A Novel
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Alan Glynn

ALAN GLYNN is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. His first novel, The Dark Fields, was republished as Limitless and simultaneously released as a film of the same name in March 2011, and was subsequently developed into a TV series by CBS. The winner of the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Award and a finalist for an Edgar Award, Glynn is also the author of Winterland, Bloodland, Graveland, and Paradime. He lives in Ireland.

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    Having read three previous works by Alan Glynn, I half expected what this one would focus on: members of an ultra-corrupt, ultra-rich business elite in Manhattan are assailed (and eventually destroyed) by a random coalition of lone-wolf type activists, willing or otherwise. And while there are surely some of those features at play here, there's an unexpected variation on the Glynn theme. I won't spoil it for you if you've yet to read on, but suffice it to say that the formula is already wearing pretty thin, and this new plot device drags the story down rather than, as expected, breathing new life into the series. An easy, non-challenging read that you'll devour in one or two sittings, but will leave you feeling a bit underwhelmed by the repetitive themes and, frankly, incredulous at what I can only assume were Mr Glynn's publisher and/or agent suggesting a change of emphasis might bring new readers into the fold. Indeed it might, but this is the last Alan Glynn novel I'll be reading. A bitter disappointment.

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