I Am Missing review: Weaver maintains a fast-paced story packed with twists and surprises
WHEN a badly beaten man wakes up on the Hampshire coast with no memory of who he is or where he came from, the press dub him The Lost Man.
I Am Missing by Tim Weaver
Taking the name Richard Kite, he spends the next 10 months living in a caravan and doing odd jobs at a church to pay for his lodgings and food.
Without a birth certificate or national insurance number, he can’t claim benefits or get a job.
While stuck in the limbo of not officially existing, he desperately searches for his identity, making media appeals and undergoing hypnosis.
But when no family or friends come forward and his memory doesn’t return, he turns to private investigator David Raker as his last hope.
Intrigued by his case, the seasoned locator of missing people soon has more questions than answers.
He’s disturbed by a possible link to the body of a woman found beside a London railway line two years ago. Is Richard a killer or a victim?
The seasoned locator of missing people soon has more questions than answers
Raker must draw on all his skills and contacts from his former career as an investigative journalist and years of experience in locating missing people to solve the mystery of Richard Kite’s true identity.
A thrilling and hugely enjoyable novel with a frantic, engrossing finale
The engaging Raker novels normally start with the investigator looking for a missing person so trying to help a person with missing memories is an intriguing premise that grips the reader from the first page.
Weaver maintains a fast-paced story packed with twists and surprises, perhaps too many to be plausible. But this is nevertheless a thrilling and hugely enjoyable novel with a frantic, engrossing finale.