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Joseph Finder

Author of Paranoia

50+ Works 8,439 Members 334 Reviews 25 Favorited

About the Author

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 show more 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) show less
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Works by Joseph Finder

Paranoia (2004) 1,522 copies
Vanished (2009) 823 copies
Killer Instinct (2006) 758 copies
Power Play (2007) 732 copies
Company Man (2005) 724 copies
Buried Secrets (Nick Heller) (2011) 574 copies
High Crimes (1998) 559 copies
The Fixer (2015) 364 copies
The Zero Hour (1996) 331 copies
Suspicion (2014) 329 copies
Guilty Minds (2017) 322 copies
The Moscow Club (1991) 273 copies
Extraordinary Powers (1993) 257 copies
The Switch (2017) 256 copies
Judgment (2019) 182 copies
Plan B: A Nick Heller Story (2011) 97 copies
Paranoia [2013 film] (2013) — Writer — 31 copies
Red Carpet (1983) 26 copies
No Hiding Place (2006) 19 copies
Fraude (2011) 2 copies
Punainen tori klo 11.00 (1991) 2 copies
The Survivor 1 copy
Bezdibeņa malā (2016) 1 copy
Mednieka instinkts (2008) 1 copy
Tiesnese : romāns (2019) 1 copy
Röda torget kl. 11.00 (1991) 1 copy
Jogos Perigosos (2008) 1 copy
Poteri straordinari (1994) 1 copy
Ora zero 1 copy
Ameaça Sem Rosto (2008) 1 copy
Terrorist 1 copy

Associated Works

FaceOff (2014) — Contributor — 501 copies
Watchlist: Two Serial Thrillers in One Killer Book (2010) — Contributor — 321 copies
The Chopin Manuscript: A Serial Thriller (2007) — Contributor — 235 copies
The Mystery Box (2013) — Contributor — 91 copies
The Copper Bracelet: A Serial Thriller (2009) — Contributor — 91 copies
Agents of Treachery (2010) — Contributor — 90 copies
Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue from the Cold War (2014) — Contributor — 71 copies
Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1996 v05 (1996) — Author — 26 copies

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An airport is a place where irregularities are bound to happen - most of them turn out to be inconveniences.
It is a place where we get easily distracted. After all you got to hold on to your passport, boarding pass and you better do so for dear life.
When Michael Tanner, a young upstart entrepreneur, gets singled out to have his shoulder bag searched by airport security, such distraction is provided.
When, after the routine search, he returns to pick up his personal items from behind the x-ray machine, unknowingly Michael Tanner makes the eponymous "Switch".
It may not tax your etymological understanding nor will you have to be versed in a world of allusions, literary or otherwise.
What Joseph Finder's "The Switch" provides is down-to-earth, unpretentious if predictable entertainment. In sum, worth a read.
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nitrolpost | 19 other reviews | Mar 19, 2024 |
My first time reading a book by this author.
Good adventure story interesting but non complex characters, the book kept me engaged.
This is the first in a series of 4 books I will keep an eye out for some used copies.
 
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