Power Play - Hardcover

Finder, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0755342054 ISBN 13: 9780755342051

Publisher: Headline, 2007

Synopsis

POWER PLAY is the explosive new novel from Joseph Finder, the CEO of the corporate thriller - reminiscent of the film DIE HARD, this novel is a breathless, near real-time action, high-stakes adventure that you won't want to stop reading.

Jake Landry is a junior executive at the Hammond Aerospace corporation - a steady, modest and taciturn man with a gift for keeping his head down, Jake also has a turbulent past that he would rather forget.
Ordered to fill in for his boss at the annual company retreat, Jake is out of his element, surrounded by the arrogant, swaggering men who run the company and his only distraction is the CEO's special assistant - his ex-girlfriend.
Then a group of local hunters crash the opening-night festivities. Soon the executives of the billion-dollar company are cut off from the rest of the world, trapped by men who have guns and a cunning plan to steal a vast fortune.
But the hostage-takers aren't who they appear to be, and neither is Jake Landry.
The only question is who is going to win the power play?

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Review

For many readers, Joseph Finder’s Paranoia was a breakthrough book. At a stroke (and after several earlier books), Finder became a must-read thriller author, even though he did not subsequently make the commercial breakthrough that many a lesser talent has – with lesser books. Power Play shows that (as Finder aficionados know) the author has not been idle – each new book by him shows a refining of his style and skill. And if this latest novel does not quite match the exhilaration afforded by Paranoia, it’s still a pretty persuasive piece of work – with ironclad plotting.

The theme here is corporate kidnapping. Finder’s protagonist, Landry, a talented aircraft engineer, finds himself invited to a corporate conference with his bosses. He’s ill-at-ease, condescended to by his high-flying colleagues – and even more discomforted when he finds an ex-lover – now a corporate high-flyer herself with the company -- is behind the invitation. But then an audacious, violent kidnapping of the entire group takes place. The body count rises, and Landry begins to look like everyone’s best hope for survival, while his more high-profile colleagues demonstrate less finely-honed survival instincts.

To say that the tension is orchestrated here with a master’s touch understates the case. Cliché it may be – but it has to be said: you won't be able to put this one down. It’s beginning to look like just a matter of time before Joseph Finder assumes his justified place in the upper echelons of thriller practitioners. --Barry Forshaw

Review

SUSPENSE AT ITS FINEST. ..MOVES LIKE A BULLET OUT OF A GUN. "LEE CHILD"

THE PACE GALLOPS RELENTLESSLY AN ENTRON-MEETS- DELIVERANCE' TWIST. "THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW"

GRABS YOU BY THE THROAT AND DOESN'T LET GO. "Harlan Coben"

A NAIL-BITER OF A READ. "LIBRARY JOURNAL"

I DARE YOU TO READ THE FIRST PAGE. YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO STOP. "TESS GERRITSEN""

SUSPENSE AT ITS FINEST. ..MOVES LIKE A BULLET OUT OF A GUN. LEE CHILD

THE PACE GALLOPS RELENTLESSLY AN ENTRON-MEETS- DELIVERANCE' TWIST. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

GRABS YOU BY THE THROAT AND DOESN'T LET GO. Harlan Coben

A NAIL-BITER OF A READ. LIBRARY JOURNAL

I DARE YOU TO READ THE FIRST PAGE. YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO STOP. TESS GERRITSEN

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"SUSPENSE AT ITS FINEST. ..MOVES LIKE A BULLET OUT OF A GUN." --LEE CHILD

"THE PACE GALLOPS RELENTLESSLY...AN ENTRON-MEETS-'DELIVERANCE' TWIST." --THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"GRABS YOU BY THE THROAT AND DOESN'T LET GO." --Harlan Coben

"A NAIL-BITER OF A READ." --LIBRARY JOURNAL

"I DARE YOU TO READ THE FIRST PAGE. YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO STOP." --TESS GERRITSEN

-SUSPENSE AT ITS FINEST. ..MOVES LIKE A BULLET OUT OF A GUN.- --LEE CHILD

-THE PACE GALLOPS RELENTLESSLY...AN ENTRON-MEETS-'DELIVERANCE' TWIST.- --THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

-GRABS YOU BY THE THROAT AND DOESN'T LET GO.- --Harlan Coben

-A NAIL-BITER OF A READ.- --LIBRARY JOURNAL

-I DARE YOU TO READ THE FIRST PAGE. YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO STOP.- --TESS GERRITSEN

About this edition

• Publisher: Headline
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0755342054
• ISBN 13: 9780755342051
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352