Dead Anyway, Chris Knopf
Dead Anyway, Chris Knopf
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Dead Anyway

Author: Chris Knopf

Narrator: Donald Corren

Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/15/2012


Synopsis

Imagine this: You have a nice life. You love your beautiful, successful wife. Youre an easygoing guy working out of your comfortable Connecticut home. The world is an interesting, pleasant place. Then in seconds, its all gone. Youre still alive, but the world thinks youre dead. And now you have to decide: make it official, or go after the evil that took it all away from you. Arthur Cathcart, market researcher and occasional finder of missing persons, decides to live on and fight by doing what he knows bestfiguring things out without revealing his status as a living, breathing human being. Much easier said than done in the post-9/11 world, where everything about yourself and all the tools you need to live a modern life are an open book. How do you become a different person? How do you finance an elaborate scheme without revealing yourself? How, as a dead man, do you force a reckoning with the worst people on earth? Mystery writer Chris Knopf, who has examined complex what-ifs in eight other novels, tackles these intriguing questions in a tale of mindless venality, phantom identity, impossible obstacles, and the triumph of intellect and imagination over brute force.

About Chris Knopf

Chris Knopf’s mystery novels have received exceptional awards and accolades, with critics likening his character Sam Aquillo to Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade, Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, and Robert B. Parker’s Spenser, while repeatedly comparing Knopf’s work to that of Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, and Ross Macdonald. Two Time was one of thirteen mysteries listed as recommended summer reading in the New York Times Book Review, and Publishers Weekly chose it as one of the “Best 100 Books for 2006.” Head Wounds won the 2008 Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Mystery. Dead Anyway was listed on the 2012 Best Fiction lists of both Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. Knopf is a sailor, cabinetmaker, and advertising executive in Connecticut. He and his wife Mary also spend considerable time at their Long Island home in Southampton.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara

In this mystery Arthur Cathcart - a market researcher who loves his beautiful, successful wife - has his life torn apart by a sudden act of violence. Determined to find out who's responsible he hatches an elaborate scheme filled with false identities, complex business dealings, thugs and gangsters,......more

Goodreads review by Jim

Excellent reader, superb story, although one key bit of motivation was missing & this leaves a cliff hanger. (view spoiler)[ Why did Florencia steal from her own company? (hide spoiler)] This does give the author room to expand to another book, but this was originally written in 2005 & he has written other books & at least one se......more

Goodreads review by Deborah

With apologies to Chris Knopf, I'm going to qualify my rating by pointing out that I rated based on other novels of this genre, not based on all literature. So, let's assume that if you're reading this review that you're not looking for a book that is about to be short listed for the Pulitzer. (Apol......more

Goodreads review by Carol

We meet Arthur who has a seemingly perfect life and then the next thing he knows he’s hiding from the bad guy that blew his world away by shooting Arthur and his wife. Arthur slowly recovers but revenge is always in the forefront in his mind. This is a new feeling and want for Arthur and he puts it......more

Goodreads review by Sheila

Dead Anyway opens with protagonist Arthur Cathcart enjoying an ordinary day as his beautiful wife goes out to work and he gets on with research on the computer. Not just a computer nerd, Arthur’s the sort of quiet private investigator who verifies data for toothpaste marketers, finds missing heirs,......more