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Power Play
by
Joseph Finder
It was the
perfect retreat for a troubled
company. No cell phones. No
BlackBerrys. No cars. Just a
luxurious, remote lodge surrounded
by thousands of miles of wilderness.
All the top officers of the Hammond
Aerospace Corporation are there. And
one last-minute substitute - a
junior executive named Jake Landry.
He's a steady, modest, and taciturn
guy with a gift for keeping his head
down and a turbulent past he's
trying to put behind him. Jake's
uncomfortable with all the power
players he's been thrown in with,
with all the swaggering and the
posturing. The only person there he
knows is the female CEO's
assistant-his ex-girlfriend, Ali.
When a band of backwoods hunters
crash the opening-night dinner, the
executives suddenly find themselves
held hostage by armed men who will
do anything, to anyone, to get their
hands on the largest ransom in
history. Now, terrified and
desperate and cut off from the rest
of the world, the captives are at
the mercy of hard men with guns who
may not be what they seem. The
corporate big shots hadn't wanted
Jake there. But now he's the only
one who can save them. Power Play is
a non-stop, pulse-pounding,
high-stakes thriller that will hold
the reader riveted until the very
last page.
Reviews:
From Publishers
Weekly
If Jake Landry, a tough guy with an
understanding of airplane engineering
and an innate grasp of corporate
politics, is too good to be true, he's
still fun to watch in this sleek
thriller from bestseller Finder (Killer
Instinct). A junior executive at
California's Hammond Aerospace, Landry
possesses a remarkably flexible
intelligence, which lands him on a
high-end corporate weekend at a lodge
called Rivers Inlet, where the new CEO,
Cheryl Tobin, discreetly asks Landry to
help her identify corrupt executives.
Almost immediately, the lodge is
assailed by five men who at first appear
to be hunters turned vicious at the
sight of the weekend participants'
enormous wealth. As they interrogate the
executives, however, it becomes clear
that they know quite a bit about Hammond
and its workings. Landry's job, then, is
to figure out their purpose as well as
rescue the entire crew. Tight, fluid
writing more than compensates for the
occasional plot implausibility.
200,000 first printing; author tour.
(Aug.)
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rights reserved.
From
Booklist
The best-selling author known for his
business thrillers (Paranoia,
2004; Company Man, 2005)here
focuses on the aviation industry, as the
management team of Hammond Aerospace
gathers in a lodge off the coast of
British Columbia. The hard-charging
businessmen are in full preening mode,
showing off their high-end gear and
slamming the company's female CEO. Jake
Landry, who has been asked to step in
for his boss and does not have quite as
privileged a background, has brought the
wrong clothes and the wrong attitude.
When the lodge is overrun by a group of
hunters, Jake suspects there's more to
the scenario than a robbery, especially
since the thieves are toting
military-issue weapons. Finder's not
much on dialogue and characterization
(it's hard to keep all the egotistical
businessmen straight), and he throws in
just enough tech talk to give his story
a realistic veneer. What he does do is
hook his readers big time with an
irresistible premise: watching the
swaggering businessmen cower as a
smart-mouthed former juvenile delinquent
picks off the bad guys, one by one.
Joanne Wilkinson
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Association. All rights reserved
About the Author:
joseph finder
is the
author of several previous thrillers,
most recently the New York Times
bestsellers Paranoia, Company Man
and Killer Instinct. He lives in
Boston, Massachusetts
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