Joseph Finder
Autor/a de Paranoia
Sobre l'autor
Joseph Finder was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 6, 1958, and spent his early childhood in Afghanistan and the Philippines. He received a B.A. in Russian studies from Yale University and a M.A. at the Harvard Russian Research Center. He also served as a teaching fellow at Harvard from mostra'n més 1983-84. His first book, Red Carpet: The Connection between the Kremlin and America's Most Powerful Businessmen, was published in 1983 and is a nonfiction account of Western capitalists making profits from trade with the communist world. His first novel, The Moscow Club, was published in 1991. His other novels include Extraordinary Powers, The Zero Hour, Paranoia, Power Play, and the Nick Heller series. Company Man won a the Barry and Gumshoe Awards for Best Thriller and Killer Instinct won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel. High Crimes was adapted into a 2002 Fox film starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman. Finder's novel, The Fixer, made The New York Times best seller list in 2015. In addition to fiction, he writes on espionage and international relations for the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Republic. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: reading at the National Book Festival, Washington, D.C. By slowking4 - Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72267058
Sèrie
Obres de Joseph Finder
Det Bästas Bokval (1997) vol 192 : Mörkrets furste; Vedergällningen; Tinas seger; Kraschlandning 4 exemplars
Paronia 1 exemplars
The Survivor 1 exemplars
Bukharin In Paris 1 exemplars
Vanished (Nick Heller, #1) 1 exemplars
Ora zero 1 exemplars
Reader's Digest 1 exemplars
Terrorist 1 exemplars
The CEOs Private Investigation 1 exemplars
Reati Capitali 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Reader's Digest Select Editions: The Ghost / Sacrifice / The Man in the Picture / Power Play (2008) 12 exemplars
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Company Man • Outside Chance • Days From a Different World • Contact Zero (2005) 8 exemplars
Reader's Digest Select Editions: Whiteout | Paranoia | Rosie | Web of Deceit (2005) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Select Editions: The Silent Girl, The Little Village School, Buried Secrets and Dark Matter (2011) — Autor — 3 exemplars
Det Bästas Bokval (2011) vol 276 : Skynda att älska; Dödligt allvar; Spirande kärlek; Från vaggan till graven — Autor — 1 exemplars
Nejlepší Světové Čtení: Paranoia | Silent Shadows | The Vanished Man | Immortal Bond (2006) 1 exemplars
Reader's Digest Select Editions: Killer Instinct / Love & Dr Devon / Map of Bones / Secret Asset (2007) — Autor — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Finder, Joseph
- Data de naixement
- 1958
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Llocs de residència
- Albany, New York, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Educació
- Yale University
Harvard University - Professions
- professor
- Organitzacions
- Harvard University
- Agent
- Christopher Little Literary Agency
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 50
- També de
- 22
- Membres
- 8,269
- Popularitat
- #2,921
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 327
- ISBN
- 504
- Llengües
- 19
- Preferit
- 25
- Pedres de toc
- 156
While the story is not without flaws, the writing is clean and intense. The plot, characters, and settings gripping. The sleuthing and fighting were well done. This is a book you will dive into and not give up on until you finish it. Except then you get the feeling that it could have been more.
I felt a little cheated on some of the secondary characters. There were quite a few and they were given interesting introductions. But then they were mostly pawns to be brought onto the board when needed and discarded afterward. I especially wasn't quite convinced that Nick could get one of his coworkers to help him with a burglary operation, not just once, but twice. Maybe I missed something.
Thrillers are obviously difficult to write. Joe Finder is doing an admirable job. I liked this a lot more than [b:Power Play|137002|Power Play|Joseph Finder|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187753306s/137002.jpg|1739442]. But the last third of the book was a let down. There were the character problems cited above. Things seemed to jump around a bit too much. And some resolutions were a bit obvious and easy (but there were also some good surprises). I will have another look when the next Nick Heller adventure gets told.… (més)