A review by caitlinxmartin
Delirious by Daniel Palmer

4.0

What if you knew there was a roughly 50/50 chance you'd get a life-threatening mental illness that would destroy everything you'd achieved in your life? How would you cope with that?

Charlie Giles is your basic self-centered techno yuppie - the marketing end of a duo whose technical half created InVision and took the company to a multi-billion dollar acquisition. So a few people got hurt along the way - the ends justify the means, right? For anyone who labored in the vineyards of the dot com boom and bust Charlie and his milieu will be quite familiar. What makes Delirious fun and different is that he's plopped right smack down in the middle of an intelligent debut techno-thriller.

Charlie Giles may have found success, fortune, and power, but he's running from some family secrets - one of which could lose him everything he has. His brother's schizophrenia has had life-altering effects on Charlie's life and that of his family. The sure knowledge that having a sibling with schizophrenia makes it significantly more likely that you will have schizophrenia hangs over Charlie's life like an axe. It's just one of the secrets that make him vulnerable and it's fun to watch Mr. Palmer take his life apart in this great debut thriller. A smart, entertaining read with some interesting twists and turns along the way.