Dead Anyway
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Imagine this: You have a nice life. You love your beautiful, successful wife. Youβre an easygoing guy working out of your comfortable Connecticut home. The world is an interesting, pleasant place. Then in seconds, itβs all gone. Youβre still alive, but the world thinks youβre 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 bestβfiguring 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.
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Chris Knopf βs mystery novels have received exceptional awards and accolades, with critics likening his character Sam Aquillo to Dashiell Hammettβs Sam Spade, Raymond Chandlerβs Philip Marlowe, and Robert B. Parkerβs Spenser, while repeatedly comparing Knopfβs 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 βBest 100 Books for 2006.β 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.
Donald Corren is an audiobook narrator and a New York actor with leading credits on and Off-Broadway, as well as numerous television appearances. On Broadway, he costarred with Judy Kaye in the critically acclaimed production of Souvenir, and replaced Harvey Fierstein in the seminal production of Torch Song Trilogy. His Off-Broadway appearances include The Soap Myth, Dietrich & Chevalier, The Last Sunday in June, Stephen Sondheimβs Saturday Night, and the original New York production of Tomfoolery. His television credits include eight seasons as forensic tech Medill on NBCβs Law & Order, as well as his current role as Dr. Kurian on Syfyβs Z Nation.
