Joseph Finder
Author of Paranoia
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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Series
Works by Joseph Finder
Det Bästas Bokval (1997) vol 192 : Mörkrets furste; Vedergällningen; Tinas seger; Kraschlandning 4 copies
Bukharin In Paris 1 copy
The Survivor 1 copy
Vanished (Nick Heller, #1) 1 copy
Ora zero 1 copy
Reader's Digest 1 copy
Terrorist 1 copy
Reati Capitali 1 copy
Associated Works
Reader's Digest Select Editions: The Ghost / Sacrifice / The Man in the Picture / Power Play (2008) 13 copies
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Company Man • Outside Chance • Days From a Different World • Contact Zero (2005) 8 copies
Reader's Digest Select Editions: Whiteout | Paranoia | Rosie | Web of Deceit (2005) — Contributor — 7 copies
Select Editions: The Silent Girl, The Little Village School, Buried Secrets and Dark Matter (2011) — Author — 3 copies
Livros Condensados: Instinto Assassino | O Apelo Da Natureza | Casamento Com Um Desconhecido | O Filho De Noé (2000) 3 copies
Det Bästas Bokval (2011) vol 276 : Skynda att älska; Dödligt allvar; Spirande kärlek; Från vaggan till graven — Author — 1 copy
Livros Condensados: O Precipício | À minha procura | Um mais um verdadeiro amor | A troca (2018) — Contributor — 1 copy
Reader's Digest Select Editions: Killer Instinct / Love & Dr Devon / Map of Bones / Secret Asset (2007) — Author — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Finder, Joseph
- Birthdate
- 1958
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Albany, New York, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Education
- Yale University
Harvard University - Occupations
- professor
- Organizations
- Harvard University
- Agent
- Christopher Little Literary Agency
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Statistics
- Works
- 50
- Also by
- 24
- Members
- 8,439
- Popularity
- #2,856
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 334
- ISBNs
- 503
- Languages
- 19
- Favorited
- 25
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.… (more)