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Authors: Joseph Finder
ISBN-13: 9780312992286, ISBN-10: 0312992289
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: January 2005
Edition: First Edition

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Author Biography: Joseph Finder

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.

Book Synopsis

"There's A New John Grisham In Town." -People magazine, "Critic's Choice"

It was only a prank: diverting cash from Wyatt Telecom's executive slush fund to throw a retirement bash for a member of the loading dock crew. But when corporate security catches up with Adam Cassidy, a low ambition junior staffer at the high-tech behemoth, they call it something else: embezzlement, to the tune of nearly $80 grand.

"The Most Entertaining Thriller Of The Year."—Publishers Weekly

Ruthless CEO Nick Wyatt is impressed by Adam's scheming, and offers him one way out-take on the role of a rising corporate hotshot and infiltrate Wyatt's rival, Trion Systems. His mission is to get close to Trion's legendary founder Jock Goddard, and his ultra-secret "Project Aurora," and report back to Wyatt.

"A Terrific Tale...Riveting."-USA Today

With Wyatt pulling the strings and a dramatically improved identity, Adam is set up as Trion's new boy genius. Suddenly, he's got a sweet new Porsche, a closet full of $1,500 suits, and even a lovely lady who thinks he's a dream. But it's all just a mirage, because Adam is about to learn that nothing is what it seems and that it isn't paranoia...everyone is out to get him...

"Edge-of-your-seat action...you'll think twice about who's watching you at work!"-Washington Post

The New Yorker

In another age, a genre thriller fairly required the brandishing of a weapon and blood smeared on the floor. Finder’s latest is the archetype of the thriller in its contemporary form: e-mail is the means of communication and threat, industrial espionage among nasdaq competitors the field of violence. The novel’s great strength is its fetishistic attention to the idioms and buzzwords of the tech business and the up-to-the-second catalogue of perfidy’s rewards: the particular Bordeaux or the particular Porsche that tickles the impulses of the New Greedy. For a while, Finder’s plot seems less vivid than the status details he gives such attention to, but late in the book we discover how completely we have been fooled, and with real escapist pleasure.

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