Critique du Publishers Weekly
Palmer fails to make the most of a promising premise in his uneven debut, a psychological thriller set in Massachusetts. Charlie Giles, a top software engineer at SoluCent, has developed InVision, a supersophisticated car entertainment system that's poised to become the next big thing. Anne Pedersen, a low-level SoluCent marketing employee, tips Giles off that one of his superiors, Jerry Schmidt, will argue against a deal with GM to make InVision standard. When Giles crashes an executive team meeting and confronts Schmidt, Schmidt says he's always supported the deal. Giles's inability to prove that Pedersen works for SoluCent or even exists leads to his getting fired. Giles fears he's falling victim to his family history of schizophrenia after finding a note in his own handwriting listing names of SoluCent executives marked for death. While Giles's unsettling and rapid fall from grace intrigues, a hokey ending will strike many as a copout. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Critique de Booklist
Charlie Giles, inventor of a new digital-entertainment system for automobiles, is stunned when his life abruptly falls to pieces around him. After being publicly humiliated by a seemingly self-destructive stunt at a high-level meeting, Charlie says he was set up by a colleague who, apparently, doesn't exist. Then he's fired from his company after an audit reveals that he used his computer to access pornographic web sites; he swears he never did, but the evidence is conclusive. Fearing he could be losing his mind, Charlie turns to his brother, Joe, who suffers from schizophrenia, for advice. But when Charlie's former colleagues start getting murdered, he realizes that whatever is happening isn't going on entirely inside his own head. This is a solid, well-constructed thriller, nicely convoluted and definitely suspenseful. It's Palmer's first novel, but he has a good pedigree: his father is medical-thriller author Michael Palmer. But if this book is any indication, Daniel Palmer will carve out his own literary identity without too much trouble.--Pitt, David Copyright 2010 Booklist
Critique du Library Journal
First-time novelist Palmer, son of best-selling medical thriller author Michael Palmer, draws on his background in e-commerce to inform the setting of this psychological thriller. Charlie Giles sold his successful start-up company to a Boston electronics firm, where he now serves as senior director. However, this comfortable world explodes when he loses his job and his former employers start dying gruesomely. All evidence points back to Charlie, who now doubts his own sanity. Is he a schizophrenic murderer or victim of a well-orchestrated scheme for revenge? While the premise is interesting, both the plot and characterization are formalistic, and the work opens with a bit of a red herring. That said, Peter Berkrot (www.peterberkrot.com) does a masterly job with the narration, holding listeners' interest throughout. For those liking technology-based thrillers and stories of wrongly accused people trying to prove their innocence. ["Techno-savvy thriller fans will enjoy this psychological mind-bender as well as have their awareness raised concerning the impact that mental illness has on families," read the review of the Kensington hc, LJ Xpress Reviews, 2/18/11.-Ed.]-Stephen L. Hupp, West Virginia Univ. Parkersburg Lib. (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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