Delirious
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Charlie Giles is at the top of his game. An electronics superstar, he’s sold his startup to a giant Boston firm, where he’s now senior director. He’s treated like a VIP everywhere he goes . . . until everything in Charlie’s neatly ordered world starts to go terrifyingly wrong.
Charlie’s mother is hospitalized, his prestigious job is in jeopardy, his inventions are wrenched away from him, and one by one, his former colleagues are being murdered. Every shred of evidence points to Charlie as a cold-blooded killer. And soon he is unable to tell whether he’s succumbed to the pressures of work and become the architect of his own destruction, or whether he’s the victim of a relentless, diabolical attack. Now he must save his own life—all the while realizing that nothing can be trusted, least of all his own fractured mind.
“Hits all the right notes. Terrific stuff.” —John T. Lescroart
“A high-speed thrill ride, filled with shocks and mind-bending twists.” —Tess Gerritsen
“Not just a great thriller debut, but a great thriller, period.” —Lee Child
Daniel Palmer
DANIEL PALMER is the author of several critically-acclaimed suspense novels, including Delirious and Desperate. After receiving his master's degree from Boston University, he spent a decade as an e-commerce pioneer. A recording artist, accomplished blues harmonica player, and lifelong Red Sox fan, Daniel lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two children, where he is currently at work on his next novel. DANIEL JAMES PALMER holds a master's degree in communications from Boston University, and is a musician, songwriter, and software professional. His debut thriller novel, Delirious, was published by Kensington Publishing in early 2011. He lives with his wife and two children in one of those sleepy New England towns.
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Reviews for Delirious
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I actually give this book 4.5 stars. This is a thriller with lots of suspense. The book moves quickly with no dull areas. I had a hard time putting it down once I started and got into the story. Charlie Giles is a director of Solucent (a giant techno firm) where he sold his start up company for millions. He is self-centered and not a very nice person. He is somewhat estranged from his family (mother and brother) due to his brother's mental health issues (schizophrenic) and what he sees as his mother's absorption with his brother. Suddenly, everything starts to go wrong. He meets with a woman and makes a business decision based on information she gives him, and that turns out to be the first step in his downfall. When he starts hearing voices, finds messages in his own hand writing that he does not remember writing and people he is angry with turn up dead, he begins to think he is developing schizophrenia. When his mother has a stroke, he had to go back home to help his brother, but it ends up the other way around. A thrill a minute. A great book to keep you on the edge of your seat.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enjoyable read. At first, I thought the main character was overwrought and droll, but then you get deeper into who he and his family are, and that's when the story flows. The manipulation. Is he going crazy? Is the therapist a nut? But the action and story work well. I think the therapist's character could have been more human, more real, but other than that the story drew you in and made you want to know what was happening.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I found the writing long-winded and sometimes extraneous. I didn't particularly like Charlie, the main character and I couldn't bring myself to care about his plight. I skimmed the second half of the book, trying to see if it got better. For me, it didn't.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Charlie is a very successful electronics inventor until he listens to a co worker and then all hell breaks loose. Through twits and what not, Charlie finds him self rock-bottom into a psychiatric hospital. Now comes the fun part in this thriller/suspense mystery. Is someone after Charlie? Could it be this Eddie we read about at the very beginning but never hear from again? What about this brother of his? The author has done an excellent job of making the reader stay on the edge of your seat wanting to know what is going to happen next. He makes you think about what if and could some of these things really happen and want about our past with technology? You will have to read the book to find out.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5So, first off I knew this book had the right plot and theme for me. I am part of a startup company and love technology. So, why not read a thriller about a successful entrepreneur? Overall, I found the book to be interesting and made for a good summer read. Being a college student, I'm always busy reading textbooks and don't have enough time to read books that I might enjoy. I was entertained and the book kept me up a good couple nights wondering what was happening to Charlie.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If the name sounds familiar, it should. Daniel is best selling novelist Michael Palmer's son. Apparently talent runs in the Palmer genes, because "Delirious" is as white knuckled a thriller as ever there was one. It's actually a techno-thriller that rings very true--Palmer was a pioneering e-commerce website developer, so he knows of which he writes. The main character, Charlie, is a hot shot computer guy who has just merged his small company with a huge one and is set to hit the big leagues in a very short time. He's also an ass with no patience and no mercy for anyone. But all of that changes in the space of just a few days, and Charlie finds himself wanted for murder and questioning his own sanity as he stumbles over more and more layers of the complex plot and things make less and less sense to him and the reader. There is no one to trust and no such thing as reliable truth throughout this page-turner, right up to the breathtaking end. You'll never look at a computer the same way again.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What if you knew there was a roughly 50/50 chance you'd get a life-threatening mental illness that would destroy everything you'd achieved in your life? How would you cope with that?Charlie Giles is your basic self-centered techno yuppie - the marketing end of a duo whose technical half created InVision and took the company to a multi-billion dollar acquisition. So a few people got hurt along the way - the ends justify the means, right? For anyone who labored in the vineyards of the dot com boom and bust Charlie and his milieu will be quite familiar. What makes Delirious fun and different is that he's plopped right smack down in the middle of an intelligent debut techno-thriller.Charlie Giles may have found success, fortune, and power, but he's running from some family secrets - one of which could lose him everything he has. His brother's schizophrenia has had life-altering effects on Charlie's life and that of his family. The sure knowledge that having a sibling with schizophrenia makes it significantly more likely that you will have schizophrenia hangs over Charlie's life like an axe. It's just one of the secrets that make him vulnerable and it's fun to watch Mr. Palmer take his life apart in this great debut thriller. A smart, entertaining read with some interesting twists and turns along the way.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Okay, ya'll know I love to do honest opinions but HATE giving bad reviews. So, my honest opinion is this: this novel, this debut, by a surely talented author, was okay. Simply okay. But, that is just this one reader's opinion. I can't really pinpoint what it was lacking for me. The characters were great, the plot line was very intriguing. But, there was just something missing.That being said, I will not discourage anyone from reading this. The psychological, edge-of -your-seat thrills is definitely there, if you love that kind of novel. The use of the language is there as well, but if you love this kind of novel, it would be easy to over look.All in all, this is a 3 star novel that I encourage everyone to try. It just wasn't my taste. I know that there are lots of readers out there who will sit down, open this debut novel, and be so completely pulled in, they will feel a part of the plot as if Daniel Palmer wrote it for them!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I enjoyed everything about _Delirious_. The portrayal of Charlie Giles as a cutthroat executive in the Information Technology sector was spot on. I loved how Daniel Palmer weaved in the family dynamics of mental illness. I couldn't stop reading when the mounting, strange coincidences forced Charlie to question whom he could trust. As he said, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you." This is the best psychological thriller that I've read all year.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great, suspenseful corporate drama. Loved it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great read, a unique story with twists and turns throughout
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Daniel Palmer’s Delirious delivers an intense non-stop suspense debut with corporate espionage on steroids, for a bang up psychological thriller.
Eddie Prescott was world-class software engineer whose life spiraled out of control, a partner of Charlie Giles, who took a wrong turn and ended his life from a bridge.
Charlie Giles sold his successful start-up company to a Boston electronics firm, where he now serves as senior director. As a top software engineer at SoluCent, developing cutting edge InVision, a high profile sophisticated car entertainment system. He is successful, intelligent, and lives to work money and a future.
This all changes when a woman, Anne, a SoluCent marketing employee, tips Giles off that one of his superiors, Jerry Schmidt, will argue against a deal with GM to make InVision standard. When Giles crashes an executive team meeting and confronts Schmidt. Giles cannot prove Anne, works for SoluCent or even exists, and his betrayal leaking secrets to competitor, leads to his firing and is escorted out of the building.
He is astounded and has to prove he was set up. However, as things start stacking up against him, he fears he is falling victim to his family history of schizophrenia after finding a note in his own handwriting listing names of SoluCent executives marked for death. Someone is manipulating him as he is surrounded with deceit, lies, and betrayal, as he turns paranoid, slowly second guessing reality, fiction, or illusion.
Delirious in an acutely disturbed state of mind resulting from illness or intoxication and characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence of thought and speech. This accurately describes Charlie’s state of mind when no one will believe him, and all the evidence is pointing at him as a cold-blooded killer.
In the meantime, readers learn about Joe, his brother (a blogger-loved this) which gave the techno thriller and even more human interest side with family dynamics between the two brothers, and an inside look into mental health issues and caretakers. As Charlie fears of losing his mind intensify and his brother comes to his defense, he has a better understanding of the real brother behind the illness, he has overlooked. (loved Joe's character)!
I have read Palmer’s newer books and making my way backward to read his previous books. Highly recommend Desperate! I actually liked Delirious better than Helpless and Stolen, as Palmer is brilliant as a lover of techno, and psychological thrillers, especially with the wrongly accused desperately proving their innocence.
Best of all love, love Peter Berkrot, (swoon) as he wows the intensity for an outstanding audio performance! (Missed him in Helpless). Hard to believe this is a debut; love the wicked twists of revenge! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Charlie Giles worked hard to get to the top of the high tech company Solucent. He also made more than a few enemies in the process. Now his success will come with a price and he finds himself in a desperate fight to stop a killer. The problem is convincing himself and others that he’s not the killer. Is someone out to get him, make him think he's the killer or is his worst nightmare coming true? With the help of his schizophrenic brother, he frantically tries to solve the mystery while still trying to keep his family's past a secret.“Delirious”, Daniel Palmer's riveting fictional debut takes readers on a mind-bending psychological ride. There are fantastic plot twists, wonderfully deceptive characters and most of all, it gives a look into how vulnerable we have become in this techno-driven society!Reviewed by Catherine Peterson for Suspense Magazine