Insidious plot thrills and chills in unusual business setting!Knowing we like "thrillers", a friend passed along an advance reading copy of Finder's pre-release seventh novel, "Killer Instinct"; and sensing an unusual setting, we dove right in. We were quickly rewarded with a story not only to wh...
I had high hopes for The Moscow Club. An espionage novel written by an ex-intelligence professional, set during a fascinating point in recent history (1991, the twilight of the Soviet Union)…I was looking forward to a intelligent, reality-based thriller, maybe with some intelligence-community ins...
I found it irresistible not to be consumed by Claire’s story or imagine her any other way than Ashley Judd while reading the book. Perhaps that is why we create the movies; if done well, they give us the means to get even more intimate with our books. They give our characters a face, a voice, a m...
Joseph Finder, Paranoia (St. Martin's, 2004)Joseph Finder (High Crimes, recently made into a movie)'s fifth novel is something different. Something new. From the looks of things, Finder wanted to take aspects of literature-and I'm not talking your basic modern 20th century "literary" novel here, ...
Is it a coincidence that I have read two books over the last two weeks that have competing story-lines vying for prime time? Is this a trend?A close relative stuck this book in my hand and said, “You’ve dabbled in the corporate game, read this book.” So I did. And I enjoyed the boardroom intrigue...
A thriller of gigantic proportions, The Zero Hour focuses on villain Henrik Baumann, a suave, cold-blooded mastermind who seeks to demolish the Wall Street computer network system that is central to the world's financial markets. Not only is The Zero Hour a jolting story with plenty of memorable ...
Start rolling too soon and the vehicle you’re following will make you. You’ll be burned even before you start. On the other hand, take too long to roll and you risk losing the target. I’d waited until the Escalade was almost at the end of the block before moving. It turned...
Kiel and Bill Sapone of McAulay Fisher Nissen Goldberg & Kiel; Ed Gates of Wolf Greenfield & Sacks; Dr. Leonard Atkins and Dr. Jonathan Finder; and, in Paris, Jean Rosenthal and my friends at the Paris Metro system. Also, Peter Dowd and Jay Gemma of Peter G. Dowd Firearms, Elisabeth Sinno...
As he backed into the space, he glanced at the passing traffic and noticed a hulking black SUV pass by, then pull over fifty feet or so ahead. It was an Escalade. From a distance, and in the darkness, he couldn’t tell whether its windows were tinted like the Escalade he’d ...
He was afraid of the big vaccine needle. And the young woman aide clearly didn’t know how to stick the needle in without inflicting pain. Dr. Mendoza saw this and placed a gentle hand on the nurse’s shoulder. “¿Puedo probar?” he said. May I try? He never liked to make the ...
Navrozov said, spittle flying. The door to the room came open, and his security guards burst in. The one in front had a weapon in his right hand, a keycard in his left. They’d managed to get one from the front desk. “This bastard murders my employee!” The security men did a quick assessment, assu...
the short guy said. “I always like to know who I’m doing business with.”I nodded, smiled.What a jerk.If Short Man’s Disease were recognized by modern medicine as the serious syndrome it is, all the textbooks would use Philip Curtis’s picture, along with those of Mussolini, Stalin, Attila the Hun,...
As foolish as that was.Give it up, she told herself. There won’t be any more from him.Stop torturing yourself.She’d gotten to work late, because she’d had to let in Nick’s friend to overhaul the home-security system. That was okay: Leland was out of the country, so things were slower than usual. ...