Chasing The Dead

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Chasing the Dead" is the debut thriller from Tim Weaver the first in the chilling " David Raker" series. One year ago Alex Townes body was found. One month ago his mother saw him on the street. One week ago David Raker agreed to look for him. Now he wishes he hadnt. Mary Townes son Alex went missing six years ago. Five years later he finally turned up
- as a corpse in a car wreck. Missing persons investigator David Raker doesnt want the work: its clearly a sad but hopeless case of mistaken identity brought to him by a woman unable to let go of her son. But haunted by a loss of his own Raker reluctantly agrees. Big mistake. For as he digs deeper he discovers that Alexs life was not the innocent one his mother believed. Buried in his past are secrets that were never meant to be found
- & dark dangerous men willing to kill to protect them. Soon Raker will discover that there are things far worse than death... Tim Weaver is a new talent fans of Mo Hayder & Michael Marshall Smith will love his work. " Chasing the Dead" is the first in the " David Raker" series following the missing persons investigator. Later works in the series include " The Dead Tracks" & " Vanished. Praise for Tim Weaver: " Impressive debut... Fans of Mo Hayder will be in seventh hell". (" Guardian"). " Perfect plotting great characterisation & the kind of payoff that a thriller of this calibre deserves". (" Bookgeeks"). "A taut thriller". (Barry Forshaw). Tim Weaver was born in 1977. At eighteen he left school & started working in magazine journalism & has since gone on to develop a successful career writing about films TV sport games & technology. He is married with a young daughter & lives near Bath. " Vanished" is Tims third " David Raker" novel which follow his highly acclaimed debut " Chasing the Dead" & its sequel " The Dead Tracks". Tortured by his wifes early death David Raker is one of the most charismatic sensitive & unique missing persons investigators in current crime fiction."