Great, suspenseful corporate drama. Loved it. ( )

I actually give this book 4.5 stars. This is a thriller with lots of suspense. The book moves quickly with no dull areas. I had a hard time putting it down once I started and got into the story. Charlie Giles is a director of Solucent (a giant techno firm) where he sold his start up company for millions. He is self-centered and not a very nice person. He is somewhat estranged from his family (mother and brother) due to his brother's mental health issues (schizophrenic) and what he sees as his mother's absorption with his brother. Suddenly, everything starts to go wrong. He meets with a woman and makes a business decision based on information she gives him, and that turns out to be the first step in his downfall. When he starts hearing voices, finds messages in his own hand writing that he does not remember writing and people he is angry with turn up dead, he begins to think he is developing schizophrenia. When his mother has a stroke, he had to go back home to help his brother, but it ends up the other way around. A thrill a minute. A great book to keep you on the edge of your seat. ( )

I started Delirious and a quarter into it I thought I had the picture of how the book was going to go, halfway into it I was sure and then there was a surprising turn of events and the rest was fast paced to the end. I'm glad I stuck with it and finished.

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I found the writing long-winded and sometimes extraneous. I didn't particularly like Charlie, the main character and I couldn't bring myself to care about his plight. I skimmed the second half of the book, trying to see if it got better. For me, it didn't. ( )

Daniel Palmer’s Delirious delivers an intense non-stop suspense debut with corporate espionage on steroids, for a bang up psychological thriller.

Eddie Prescott was world-class software engineer whose life spiraled out of control, a partner of Charlie Giles, who took a wrong turn and ended his life from a bridge.

Charlie Giles sold his successful start-up company to a Boston electronics firm, where he now serves as senior director. As a top software engineer at SoluCent, developing cutting edge InVision, a high profile sophisticated car entertainment system. He is successful, intelligent, and lives to work money and a future.

This all changes when a woman, Anne, a 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. Giles cannot prove Anne, works for SoluCent or even exists, and his betrayal leaking secrets to competitor, leads to his firing and is escorted out of the building.

He is astounded and has to prove he was set up. However, as things start stacking up against him, he fears he is falling victim to his family history of schizophrenia after finding a note in his own handwriting listing names of SoluCent executives marked for death. Someone is manipulating him as he is surrounded with deceit, lies, and betrayal, as he turns paranoid, slowly second guessing reality, fiction, or illusion.

Delirious in an acutely disturbed state of mind resulting from illness or intoxication and characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence of thought and speech. This accurately describes Charlie’s state of mind when no one will believe him, and all the evidence is pointing at him as a cold-blooded killer.

In the meantime, readers learn about Joe, his brother (a blogger-loved this) which gave the techno thriller and even more human interest side with family dynamics between the two brothers, and an inside look into mental health issues and caretakers. As Charlie fears of losing his mind intensify and his brother comes to his defense, he has a better understanding of the real brother behind the illness, he has overlooked. (loved Joe's character)!

I have read Palmer’s newer books and making my way backward to read his previous books. Highly recommend Desperate! I actually liked Delirious better than Helpless and Stolen, as Palmer is brilliant as a lover of techno, and psychological thrillers, especially with the wrongly accused desperately proving their innocence.

Best of all love, love Peter Berkrot, (swoon) as he wows the intensity for an outstanding audio performance! (Missed him in Helpless). Hard to believe this is a debut; love the wicked twists of revenge!
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