Book Review and Giveaway - Delirious by Daniel Palmer

Synopsis:  One day, Charlie Giles is an up-and-coming electronics superstar. The next, he's a prime homicide suspect as his former employers are picked off one by one. Charlie watches his life unravel as his company and inventions are wrenched from his control, and his family is decimated. With nowhere else to turn, he enlists his schizophrenic brother to uncover the dark family secrets that lie at the heart of the unfolding terror.

First Line:  "Eddie rode the 28-19h Avenue bus to the bridge."

Random Quote:  "The one gnawing need was the desire to know the truth.  Even if it proved what he feared most, he had to know if it was even within the realm of scientific possibility."

Review:  What 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.

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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.

FTC Disclosure:  Advance copy for review from the author

Rating:  Blue

Reading Challenges:  Mystery and Suspense Reading Challenge

Book Giveaway:  Thanks to the author I have an ARC signed by the author to give away to one lucky reader (US only).

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I'll announce the winner on 1/30.

Be sure to check out Daniel Palmer's website and his InVision blog providing some backstory to the events of Delirious.