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I Am Missing (2017)

par Tim Weaver

Séries: David Raker (8)

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When a young man wakes up bruised, beaten and with no memory of who he is or where he came from, the press immediately dub him 'The Lost Man'. Ten months later, Richard Kite - if that is even his real name - remains as desperate as ever. Despite appeals and the efforts of the police, no one knows this man. Kite's last hope may be private investigator David Raker - a seasoned locator of missing people. But Raker has more questions than answers. Who is Richard Kite? Why does no one know him? And what links him to the body of a woman found beside a London railway line two years ago?… (plus d'informations)
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Questa volta Reaker dovrà mettercela tutta, non per trovare una persona scomparsa, ma per restituire l’identità a un uomo che ha perso la memoria e che, a 10 mesi di distanza dal suo ritrovamento, non riesce neanche a ricordare il suo nome e da dove venga. Una ricerca che si rivelerà difficile, insidiosa e molto pericolosa che lo porterà anche dall’altra parte del mondo.
Un’altra indagine avvincente ed emozionante che conferma una volta di più la validità di questa serie che è riuscita a conquistarmi completamente.
Un consiglio a chi vorrà leggere questi libri: seguite l’ordine di pubblicazione della serie perché anche se ogni storia è conclusiva e a sé stante, alcuni rimandi e le evoluzioni dei personaggi ricorrenti seguono una logica temporale e, a volte, sono complementari alle storie stesse.
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  Raffaella10 | Jan 28, 2023 |
In Tim Weaver's eighth outing in the David Raker series, he turns the missing person scenario around. The client is the "Lost Man", an amnesia victim that requests Raker's help to determine his identity.
A bit of a slow start as the background is established, but then the suspense builds. One of the things I enjoy most about this author is his ability to incorporate actual locations into the story. The Empress Islands exists, but most readers will have no preconceived ideas.
(Aka the Tristan da Cunha Island Group, an archipelago of five volcanic islands resting on the east slope of the mid-Atlantic ridge, midway between Africa and South America.)
If you haven't previously discovered David Raker, this novel does well as a stand-alone, free from many of the peripheral characters found in the series. ( )
  MM_Jones | Aug 31, 2020 |
I Am Missing – Complex and Engaging Mystery

I am Missing is the eighth book in Tim Weaver’s David Raker series, showing how cleverly constructed and complex stories can still deliver an excellent story. At times this is a bracing story and you can feel the cold and wet as if you are in the middle of the story, and like all good thrillers the twists happen when you least expect them, and some are surprising. One thing is still clear, it does not matter how far Raker goes, trouble still finds him.

Private Detective David Raker has a reputation for find people, but this time his client is the missing person. Richard Kite has hired him to find out who he is, because he has no idea or memory of who he is. Having been discovered on a beach, bruised and beaten in Southampton and dubbed by the press as ‘The Lost Man’. He cannot place Kite’s accent, it seems as if it is from the south west but he cannot be sure and the press coverage, nobody has claimed to know him.

As Raker investigates, he needs to find out who Richard Kite is, where he is from and why does nobody know him? He then has to work out what links him to a dead body of a woman found on a railway line in London, two years before.

What Raker finds will take him on a journey overseas, find himself confined, with people chasing after him to make sure the truth will never be revealed. He does find who Kite is but should he tell him the truth? As he discovers Richard’s story and how it is intertwined with the dead woman, whom he knew of at another time in another place.

Weaver has written a multi-layered thriller which shows how far people will go to hide the truth, and how greed can corrupt all. Sometimes it can be hard to discover who is not a victim in this story, but it does become clear, eventually.

An excellent story, highly recommend it. ( )
  atticusfinch1048 | Oct 2, 2017 |
I have a great admiration for the writing ability of Tim Weaver and in particular his two previous outings for missing persons investigator David Raker namely Broken Heart and What Remains. In Broken Heart the authors love of cinema and in particular "noir" adds an authentic old Hollywood feel to the story in contrast What Remains is equally outstanding with its imagery of old wooden piers and the thrill and sound of Victorian Amusement Arcades. Weavers attention to detail combined with his journalistic instinct creates well researched and highly entertaining novels. So what about his latest? I am missing really suffers from a strong storyline. When Richard Kite is discovered alone, lost and wondering on a beach this would seem the perfect case for Raker, a client who is himself missing or rather his mind and memory totally erased. So starts the slow process of building a case and when the body of a young lady is discovered the race is on to see if there is a connection to Kite. An attachment is revealed between England and the fictional Empress Islands (think Falkland islands with its cold barren wintry seasons) and our Private Investigator soon realizes that he must travel to the islands to resolve the mystery of the memory man.

There are no Victorian arcades or Hollywood actors here instead we the reader must persevere with Raker as he brings together the clues and treks the monotonous and barren shores of the depressing Empress Islands. The story lacks the vital spark that was ubiquitous in earlier novels, it is only natural that in a series such as this certain books will be more valued than others and I am confident that the next instalment (due for release in summer 2018) will see our hero returned to a more exciting adventure backed by a lively narrative. I end this review where I started, Tim Weaver is a writer of exceptional ability and if you value well researched and articulate writing then become acquainted with missing persons investigator David Raker I received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review and that is what I have written. ( )
  runner56 | Jun 28, 2017 |
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When a young man wakes up bruised, beaten and with no memory of who he is or where he came from, the press immediately dub him 'The Lost Man'. Ten months later, Richard Kite - if that is even his real name - remains as desperate as ever. Despite appeals and the efforts of the police, no one knows this man. Kite's last hope may be private investigator David Raker - a seasoned locator of missing people. But Raker has more questions than answers. Who is Richard Kite? Why does no one know him? And what links him to the body of a woman found beside a London railway line two years ago?

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