The Finder - Softcover

Harrison, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031242888X ISBN 13: 9780312428884

Publisher: Picador, 2009

Synopsis

There's no doubt about it: Colin Harrison is a master storyteller. Critics and readers love his gripping, dark books. It's hard not to get sucked into his world. Entertainment Weekly calls him the "class act of the urban thriller," Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times lauds him as "a master of mood and atmosphere," andPublishers Weekly crows that Harrison "writes like an angel."

Now, the author of The Havana Room, Afterburn, and Manhattan Nocturne raises the stakes with an electrifying new thriller, The Finder. Harrison spins the story of a young, beautiful, secretive Chinese woman, Jin-Li, who gets involved in a brilliant scheme to steal valuable information from corporations in New York City. When the plan is discovered by powerful New Yorkers who stand to lose enormous sums of money, Jin-Li goes on the run. Meanwhile, her former lover, Ray Grant, a man who was out of the country for years but who has recently returned, is caught up in the search for her. Ray has not been forthcoming to Jin-Li about why he left New York or what he was doing overseas, but his training and strengths will be put to the ultimate test against those who are unmerciful in their desire to regain a fortune lost. Ray is going to have to find Jin-Li, and he is going to have to find her fast.

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Review:

"Jake is our hero - funny, courageous, and wickedly clever - and Boutsikaris reads his character with just the right touch. He does a great job portraying the many other players and reads at a good brisk pace that reflects the building tension and action." --Library Journal

"Jason Culp's narration adds edge to this tightly plotted corporate thriller...The gripping story and the deft reading make for a solid listening experience." --Publishers Weekly

"You don't read Colin Harrison, you devour him." --The Philadelphia Enquirer

"His [Narrator Jason Culp] timing...is quite good, and he changes his tone and pitch for different characters, so we never get bored by his delivery." --The Sunday Journal Sentinel

"As sharp and insidery as a Tom Wolfe opus, with the giddyup pacing of an airport-rack paperback." --Men's Journal on Havana Room

"[Harrison is] the class act of the urban thriller. A." --Entertainment Weekly on Havana Room

"A consistently entertaining story . . . [Harrison] is a master of mood and atmosphere." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times on Havana Room

"A great read, an elegantly crafted thriller you won't want to put down." --Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post on Havana Room

"A practically perfect literary thriller with a bitter lingering "afterburn" indeed." --Kirkus Reviews on Afterburn

"Extraordinary . . . A masterpiece." --The Washington Post on Afterburn

"Colin Harrison will have you gasping for breath in the eyeball-popping opening chapter of The Finder, his latest New York thriller, one unlikely to be distributed by the Tourism Bureau . . . Once again he's mucking about in the city's greedy underbelly in a pulsating novel that obscenely documents the gritty, ugly intersection of commerce and corruption . . . Harrison (The Havana Room, Afterburn) writes like Rambo on meth and throws in enough black humor to prove he's more brains than brawn." --USA Today

"[Harrison] is an uncommonly astute writer." --The Seattle Times

About the Author:

Colin Harrison is the author of the novels Break and Enter, Bodies Electric, Manhattan Nocturne, Afterburn, The Havana Room, The Finder, and Risk. His novel Manhattan Nocturne was filmed as Manhattan Night in 2016, with Adrian Brody. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 031242888X
• ISBN 13: 9780312428884
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336