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.
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Alan Glynn is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. He has worked in magazine publishing in New York and as as EFL teacher in Italy. His debut novel, The Dark Fields, was released in 2011 as the hit movie Limitless, which went to # 1 on both sides of the Atlantic. His most recent novel, Graveland, concluded his highly acclaimed trilogy of thrillers which included Bloodland, the Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year in 2011 which was also Edgar nominated in the US.
"A paranoid conspiracy thriller with a significant twist...The result is a powerful psychological thriller of institutional corruption braided with ancient folkloric motifs."―The Irish Times (Best Crime Fiction of the Year)
"No one spins 21st Century facts into high-tech fantasies like Glynn."―Jane Ciabattari, BBC (Ten Books to Read This Month)
“As with all great novels, Paradime raises more questions than it answers...A pulsating tale from one of the most inventive practitioners working in contemporary crime fiction, a novel that pounds to the rhythms of the conventional thriller but employs its tropes to divert its protagonist, and the reader, down some very unusual dark alleyways.” ―Declan Burke, The Irish Times
“Bristling with paranoia, this wheels-within-wheels conspiracy novel is both insidious and ingenious.” ―Laura Wilson, The Guardian (UK)
“Alan Glynn's first novel became acclaimed Hollywood movie Limitless. With its ever-spiralling tension, Paradime is even more sinister...I was hooked from page one.”―Irish Independent
“[Paradime] is a doppelganger tale of conspiracy and paranoia which starts in fourth gear, quickly revis up into fifth and thereafter roars along like an Exocet in agony...Suffice to say that it's his most inventive novel since [Limitless]―and arguably a more fascinating psychological-thriller-cum-tragedy.” ―Crime Always Pays
“Deliciously creepy...The plot keeps moving with plenty of effective surprises, and the final chapters successfully navigate to an even darker tone.” ―Kirkus Reviews
“Suspend your disbelief, and go along for a superfast, thoroughly enjoyable roller-coaster ride with Danny.” ―Booklist
"A mesmerizing story that’s unexpectedly sinister and suspenseful. I enjoyed every bit of it...[Paradime] is the standout novel for me this year."―Avid Mystery Reader
“The novel's fever-dream narration is intoxicating, its first section in particular a kind of contemporary nightmare picaresque...Carefully constructed [and] full of epiphanies that shed shocking new light on earlier scenes.” ―Detectives Beyond Borders
Additional Praise for Alan Glynn
“Hugely relevant [and] undeniably compelling.” ―Chris Pavone, author of The Expats and The Accident
“Scarily plausible...There are, as the publishers claim, echoes of John le Carré, 24, and James Ellroy here, but Glynn's talen is all his own.” ―The Guardian (London)
“[Glynn] has a knack for depicting a shifting reality, partly by introducing us to characters who are already at their mental and emotional limits...His heroes exist in contemporary free fall, bracing themselves against whatever surface is available...Remarkable.” ―Los Angeles Review of Books
“Timely, topical, and thrilling.” ―John Connolly, author of the Charlie Parker series
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