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JOSEPH FINDER is the The New York Times bestselling author of eight novels including Killer Instinct, Power Play, Paranoia, The Zero Hour, and High Crimes, which was the basis for the Morgan Freeman/Ashley Judd movie. Finder is a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers and has written extensively on espionage and international affairs for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Republic. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Visit the author’s Web site at www.josephfinder.com
When Alexa Marcus, the teenage daughter of a billionaire hedge fund titan, is kidnapped, it’s up to family friend and “private spy” Nick Heller—a former intelligence operative trained in the Special Forces—to find her…before time runs out.
Alexa has been buried alive, a videocam trained on her night and day, her terror streamed live over the Internet. Who are her cunning and ruthless captors—and what do they want? And why is there no ransom request? With the help of an ex-lover, FBI Special Agent Diana Madigan, Nick must penetrate layers of deceptions and manipulations to hunt down Alexa’s abductors. He will destroy anyone who gets in his way—even Alexa’s own father, who refuses to reveal the one secret that will save his daughter’s life. Meanwhile, powerful members of a conspiracy are on Nick’s trail…and determined to make sure that their secrets stay buried. But they don’t realize how far Nick Heller will go to uncover the truth—and save a life.
< Joseph Finder is the author of several New York Times bestselling thrillers, including High Crimes, Paranoia and the first Nick Heller novel, Vanished. Killer Instinct won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Thriller, and Company Man won the Barry and Gumshoe Awards for Best Thriller. High Crimes was the basis of the Morgan Freeman/Ashley Judd movie, and both Paranoia and Killer Instinct are in development as major motion pictures. Born in Chicago, Finder studied Russian at Yale and Harvard. He was recruited by the CIA, but decided he preferred writing fiction. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Association for Former Intelligence Officers, he lives in Boston, Massachusetts.<Praise for New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder and his novels
THE ZERO HOUR
“Thrilling.”—The New Yorker
“Breathlessly exciting.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A labyrinth of suspense…brilliant…a master storyteller.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“A thinking person’s thriller with bite.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
HIGH CRIMES
“Fast and furious.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Exciting . . . deliciously absorbing . . . full of hair-pin turns.” —The Washington Post
“A powerhouse tale.” —Chicago Tribune
“Provocative and chilling.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Rattling good entertainment.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
VANISHED
“The best thriller of the year.” —Chicago Sun-Times
“Lots of unpredictable plot twists and a furious pace.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Lightning-paced from the first page to the last. ”—Providence Journal
“If Jack Reacher met Nick Heller in a dark alley, my money’s on Reacher. But it would be ugly. Or would it? Actually, I think they’d go for a beer together and set the world to rights—because Joseph Finder has given me a terrific new hero to root for. This is an action-packed, full-throttle, buy-it-today-read-it-tonight series that you definitely shouldn’t miss.” —Lee Child
“A humdinger....a thriller to enjoy for its Washington locales, convincing familiarity with cutting-edge spy gadgetry, and taut action scenes.” —Washington Post
“Cliffhangers galore, the fascinating tradecraft of corporate espionage, and an engrossing story will propel readers through this outstanding thriller. Highly recommended as a great summer read.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“Written in staccato chapters that are emotionally supercharged and action-packed, this thriller will more than satisfy adrenaline junkies and have them guessing until the very end.”—Publishers Weekly “If you only read one book this summer, make it Vanished.” —Crimespree magazine
“Moves at the pace of an injected neurotoxin…You’ll curse Finder for keeping you up into the early hours.” —Shots magazine
“Even though I’d been warned that everyone who'd read it did so in one sitting, I cracked the cover at 10 p.m., figuring yeah, yeah, one sitting, right. When I passed out at 4 a.m., I was thinking, boy, if I could just keep my eyes open long eno Read Less
