Extraordinary Powers

by Joseph Finder

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"Spectacular…The action is unrelenting…Electrifying."-Boston Sunday Herald The news is shattering: The director of the CIA, Harrison Sinclair, has been killed in a car accident. Sinclair may have been a traitor-or the Agency's last honest man. Even his son-in-law, Ben Ellison, an attorney and ex-agent, has heard rumors of sinister forces within the Agency that could have ordered Sinclair's assassination. Soon he is thrust into a web of intrigue and violence beyond his control back into show more the CIA, and lured into a top-secret espionage project in telepathic ability funded by American intelligence. "Gripping drama in which nothing is quite what it seems."-Seattle Times As the project's first success, Ben uses his "extraordinary powers" in the perilous search for Vladimir Orlov, the exiled former chairman of the KGB-and the only man who might unlock the secret of Sinclair's death and the whereabouts of a multibillion-dollar fortune in gold spirited out of Russia in the last days of the Soviet Union. The hunt for the truth will bring Ben face to face with his past and culminate in a crowded Washington hearing room where, behind high security barriers, a Senate investigating committee is about to call its secret witness…as an assassin prepares to strike…in Joseph Finder's Extraordinary Powers. "An extraordinary, powerful book…ingeniously plotted, fast-paced, and frighteningly credible."-Nelson DeMille. show less

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Joseph Finder approaches an unusual premise and enhances its credibility. Although slightly dated (20 years--meh!) it was still a fun read. It was exciting but it was very, very long. I think that if it were cut in half, it would work well.
As suspenseful and on the edge of your seat as a Ludlum novel. Very good.
En el mundo del espionaje, poderes extraordinarios es un término que se utiliza para referirse al permiso que se le otorga a un agente secreto de mucha confianza para que en circunstancias extremadamente especiales viole las órdenes de su empleador si es absolutamente necesario para cumplir el objetivo de una misión de suma importancia. La novela narra la historia de Ben Ellison, quien se encarga de investigar el accidente que terminó con la vida de su suegro, director de la CIA en el momento más exitoso de su carrera. Pero, aparentemente, no se trata de un accidente. Ben utilizará sus poderes de percepción extrasensorial para buscar al ex jefe de la KGB, el único que puede revelar la verdad. Pero mientras Ben lleva a cabo su show more investigación, un asesino le asecha. show less

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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 1983-84. His first book, Red Carpet: The Connection show more 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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Fiction and Literature, Suspense & Thriller
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813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3556 .I458 .E98Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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