Chasing the Dead: The gripping thriller from the bestselling author of No One Home (David Raker Missing Persons, 1)

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MY THOUGHTS: I was expecting great things from this book. I didn't get them. That may be because I was expecting great things. These days I find that my best reads are the ones that sneak up on me quietly, with little fanfare. Tim: Not as much as I’d like. I’ll be honest, when I’m writing a book, I don’t read at all. Not because I don’t want to, but because I find other books start interfering with my thought processes. I start to worry one of my characters is like one of theirs, or my story is the same as theirs, and it just makes everyone’s life – and I include agent, editor and family in this – a total misery. During my down time, I read as much as I can, though. I recently finished The Road on audio book, about five years after everyone else, and I’m currently ploughing through Stephen King’s Full Dark, No Stars. Chasing the Dead is the first book in the extremely popular David Raker series which was published in 2010 and the latest book (10) No One Home is being published in May 2019. Weaver's books get better each time - tense, complex, written with flair as well as care * Guardian * Tim Weaver, η πρώτη σκέψη που μου πέρασε από το μυαλό ήταν ότι αν το πρώτο βιβλίο της σειράς με πρωταγωνιστή τον ιδιωτικό ντεντέκτιβ Ντειβιντ Ρεικερ, ιδιωτικό ερευνητή εξαφανισμένων προσώπων, είναι τόσο καλό τα επόμενα πως θα είναι?

ABOUT THIS BOOK: It starts out as a sad but hopeless case of mistaken identity. A year after the death of her son Alex, Mary Towne is convinced she's seen him alive - and wants missing persons investigator David Raker to find him. Reluctant at first, but haunted by a loss of his own, Raker eventually agrees. Tim: I have a character arc planned out for Raker, which will see him through the first four books. Beyond that, I think it’s definitely a case of letting it flow!Once again the story was well crafted and paced superbly. Snippets of information is revealed steadily and I had fun trying to work things out before it was revealed to me. While I didn't see some twists coming there was one thing that instantly set warning sirens off in my head. I wasn't 100% accurate but I did have some idea of what was coming. Ayo: The third Raker novel that is due out in February 2012 is called The Last Exit what can you tell us about this? Ayo: In Chasing The Dead there is a great sense of place, in this case South Africa. How important was this and what is your relationship with South Africa? Ayo: Were you a reader of crime fiction before you started writing it and if so can you remember the very first crime novel that you read?

Some readers did not like the book and found it to be too unbelievable to be real and some found that they had to leave their brains behind when they read the book. Some found that the book takes a turn at one point in the novel into territory that makes it not believable. Some found that even after they had finished reading the book, they could not remember any specific details of what had gone on in the book. Readers found that some of the escapes that David is able to make to be a little far fetched and unlikely, given the torture that he is put through.

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SOCA, την Υπηρεσία Δίωξης του Σοβαρού Οργανωμένου Εγκλήματος, τμήμα της οποίας είναι η NCIS, η Εθνική Υπηρεσία Εγκληματολογικών Πληροφοριών. Ο Επιθεωρητής Φρανκ Γουάιτ είχε πλησιάσει επικίνδυνα κοντά σ’ ένα μεγάλο κεφάλι ρωσικής συμμορίας, τον Ακίμ Γκόμπουλιεφ ή Φάντασμα, τον πλέον καταζητούμενο εγκληματία της SOCA. Ποιος σκότωσε λοιπόν τον Φρανκ και με ποια ταυτότητα βρίσκεται στην Αγγλία ο Γκόμπουλιεφ; Τα ερωτήματα ιντριγκάρουν τον Ρέικερ που βάζει κι άλλους μπελάδες στο κεφάλι του την ώρα που μπαίνει στο στόχαστρο και της αστυνομίας! Οι αρχιεπιθεωρητές Τζέιμι Χαρτ και Φίλιπς έχουν τους λόγους τους που δεν προχώρησαν την υπόθεση της Μέγκαν Κάρβερ κι όταν ο Ρέικερ παγιδεύεται για κάτι που δεν έκανε με μεγάλη χαρά τον συλλαμβάνουν, μόνο και μόνο για να αρχίσει ένα παιχνίδι γάτας και ποντικιού, μέχρι να μάθουν και οι δύο πλευρές τι ξέρουν ήδη, τι ψάχνουν, τι δεν πρέπει να βγει στο φως και για ποιους λόγους κι όλα αυτά όσο ο αρχιφύλακας Κολμ Χίλι, του οποίου η κόρη, Λιάν, εξαφανίστηκε τρεις μήνες πριν, κάνει τις δικές του παράλληλες έρευνες διψώντας για εκδίκηση.

This, on the one hand, kept me at the edge of my seat. On the other...REALLY DAVID?!? REALLY?! ARE YOU THAY STUPID OMG ran through my mind a lot. It was annoying. But so did OMG NO WHY?! and OH. OH SHIT. WASN'T EXPECTING THAT. But overall, there were twist and turns I expected but HOLY ENDING I did not.

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questo lato umano del nostro eroe che lo rende più interessante, affascinante ai nostri occhi e nel quale ci si affianca e ci si “immedesima”. As he continues with the investigations, he realizes that there was more to Alex’s life than met the eye. Indeed, Alex was not the innocent person that his mother knew, as his life was full of sinister events whose secrecy was guarded by men who would do anything to ensure that the secrets were not disclosed, including killing anyone who insisted on knowing them. David is later to learn that death is not the worst thing that can happen to a person. I thought about this quote also while reading this book, though here less figuratively but literally. With the growing popularity of Tim’s novels and given that he now writes full time, he is poised for great success. A case in point, Fall from Grace was the second biggest selling book in England the week in which it was released and Tim’s works has been nominated for a National Book Award and for the Crime Writer’s Association Dagger. The first three thrillers in the stunning David Raker series - for the first time in one unique bundle

Tim Weaver is an English novelist born in 1977 in Bath, England. He is a former student of Norton Hill School. He later became a journalist, a career in which he grew rapidly. He was a celebrated video games journalist and magazine editor before he switched to novel authoring and the father of one daughter has written several crime thriller novels which have been read far and wide. He lives with his family near Bath, England.Weaver's tenth book, No One Home, was again selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club on 20 February 2020 [12] and on 15 April 2021, Weaver released his first standalone novel, Missing Pieces. [13] Podcast [ edit ] Weaver attended Norton Hill School [16] in Midsomer Norton, Somerset. He also describes himself as a "massive, massive football fan", [17] and supports Arsenal and Bath City F.C. Bibliography [ edit ] David Raker novels [ edit ]