Organizational
psychologist Dr. Waters is a happily solitary guy with a few deep attachments,
including to his boss Paresh Rajput, the owner of a thriving hi-tech aerospace
company. Until something really bad happens to CEO Rajput, which throws Waters
into a lunatic swirl of murderous stalkers, corporate intrigue, amorous female
executives and crafty cops who see the inscrutable psychologist as murder
suspect #1. Waters is hardly defenseless. A weight-lifter and former wrestler,
ace poker player and master student of human nature, he takes it all on with
surprising strength and determination. If they only knew. As with the connivers
surrounding him, Waters has his own secrets. Autistic as a child, he lives with
the consequences some blessings, others a curse. And a love affair that's
hidden even more deeply, or so he thinks. You're Dead is a mystery/thriller, an adventure story,
though in the context of the present zeitgeist the financial stakes of hi-tech
ascendancy and flourishing commerce, corporate and personal venality,
manipulations by the rich and powerful men and women and the ugly presence of
base criminality that crackles around the fringes. It's about troubled and
troubling minds, and institutions that struggle to assert relevance, but also
how one man, single-minded and apart, can disrupt what the lead detective on
the case calls, "Their clever-clever ways." Every writer has their
themes and pre-occupations. For Knopf, it's the intricacies of the mind, the
most complex organism in the universe. The aberrations, as well as the
indefinable "normal". You're Dead is an action-filled examination of what happens when
minds of all kinds collide.
You’re
Dead (Mystery Thriller)
By
Chris Knopf
ISBN
#978-1579625665
Price
$29.95 (Hardback)
Price
$9.95 (Kindle)
Rating
4-Stars
Dr.
Waters discovers the bodiless head of his boss when he goes home. He becomes
the first suspect, and decides he needs to find the real killer before he’s
arrested for the murder. The case becomes a fantastical investigation, as only
the author can pen them, and would have been a first rate detective novel.
I’ve
never cared for the author’s dialogue, but his fiction is certainly topnotch,
if not a little beyond belief, but that’s why we read - to escape reality for a
few hours in an action-packed mystery with beautiful women and hard men. Highly
recommended.
Tom Johnson
Author of NINA FONTAYNE
Sounds interesting, Tom.
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