Chapters 1 - 3 Summary

Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly is a novel that deals with the basics of humanity. It encompasses our greatest potentials to succeed and better ourselves as a species, and deals with the greed and temptation that we all face at one time or another. It touches on our frailties and shows us our weaknesses while allowing us to observe our ability to overcome evil and achieve greatness. This is a novel that begins with a man who wants to make the world a better place. Henry Pierce is a chemist who seeks to understand what makes us work on the smallest of levels. On the way to his dream, he is almost derailed by his best friend Cody Zeller in an act of greed and self interest when Cody sets an elaborate trap to lure Henry into taking the fall...