The Silent Second by Adam Walker Phillips

The Silent Second by Adam Walker Phillips

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The Silent Second by Adam Walker Phillips

Chuck Restic has achieved the American dream: a successful career with a large corporation, his own home, the best health care insurance and retirement package. but he's crumbling inside. Twenty years in Human Resources have pushed him into an existential crisis. He realizes there is so little value in what he does all day, and it is only when he embarks on a mission to find a missing employee from his firm that he truly starts to feel alive again.

This is Chuck's first step toward moonlighting as a private detective -- a job in which he turns out to excel. Constantly balancing the inane demands of his office and the excitement of his new job, he finally finds what he's been missing. By applying his HR skills and wit to his new passion for detective work, Chuck unravels a web of crooked real estate deals and three murders, staving off a fourth: his own.

The first in the Chuck Restic mystery series, The Silent Second began life as the novel Smile Now, Cry Later, a self-publishing success story that led to a series commitment from publisher Prospect Park Books. Thoroughly re-edited, improved, re-designed, and re-titled, this smart, witty crime novel introduces an engaging (if sometimes bitter) private eye for the corporate era.

Phillips, Adam Walker: - Adam Walker Phillips is the author of the Chuck Restic Mystery Series, which follows a burnt-out HR man who moonlights as a private detective. Phillips is a 20-year corporate vet who has endured countless PowerPoint decks, offsite retreats and visioning sessions, and synergies and synergistically-minded cross-functional teams in order to bring this mystery series to life. His sardonic take on corporate life brings a fresh voice to the classic detective novel. Phillips lives with his wife and children in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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ISBN 13 9781945551048
ISBN 10 1945551046
Title The Silent Second
Author Adam Walker Phillips
Series Chuck Restic Mysteries
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Prospect Park Books
Year published 2017-09-28
Number of pages 280
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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