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PARADIME – A NOVEL

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Fiction Double trouble PARADIME – A NOVEL By Alan Glynn 255 pp. Picador Reviewed by Dennis C. Rizzo What would you do if you discovered someone was your double? Not just “kind-a looks like you”, but a real double. The laws of probability say it’s fairly possible. Some of us have had the experience, or know those who have. In  Paradime , Alan Glynn explores what might be, and what might result. Danny Lynch, a two-tour veteran of Iraq and sometime sous chef, now slipping in and out of work in Manhattan, stumbles onto what he thinks is an opportunity to make some cash. I then stand there, staring through the window, and it takes me a while to see it, for it to click – my own reflection in the glass is superimposed on Trager. He’s facing in my direction but is busy with his phone and doesn’t appear to see me. For my part, I switch focus from one image to the other, from mine to his, and back again, until I get confused...Trager scruffy and unshaven one second, me groomed and in a ...