Vanished

Joseph Finder

Book - 2009

After an assault leaves his estranged brother nowhere to be found and his sister-in-law in a coma, security investigator and ex-intelligence agent Nick Heller is forced to contend with one of the most powerful and secretive corporations in the world.

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Published
New York : St. Martin's Press 2009.
Language
English
Main Author
Joseph Finder (-)
Physical Description
388 p. ; 25 cm
ISBN
9780312379087
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Review by Booklist Review

Finder's latest thriller boasts the same breakneck pace and labyrinthine schemes that have made his previous business stories blockbusters. But this time the plot is centered on a domestic drama one man's outsize greed puts his family in peril. Hero Nick Heller fits the cookie-cutter model of Finder protagonists. He is an international investigator with a corporate-espionage agency. The first time we meet Heller, he is inside a cargo airplane hanger in L.A., neatly solving the theft of a billion American dollars intended to support the Iraq War. The ingenious way he locates the cargo nicely establishes his ability to find just about anything. The next phone call he receives, from his teenage nephew, Gabe, calls on this ability. Gabe's stepfather (Nick's estranged brother) has been kidnapped near a posh D.C. sushi joint. Gabe's mother was struck from behind and is fighting for her life in a hospital. Heller, despite his disapproval of his craven brother, who took the low road into corporate finance (it's getting easier and easier to make corporate types villains), accepts the case for his nephew's sake. Finder's conventional mystery lacks the frisson of his purely corporate thrillers, though we do see glimpses of that world from time to time, and his hero's methods sometimes seem like taking an AK-47 to a bumblebee, but there's enough plot tension to keep readers involved.--Fletcher, Connie Copyright 2009 Booklist

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Known for his stand-alones, bestseller Finder (Power Play) introduces Nick Heller, an elite corporate intelligence specialist and former Special Services badass, in this exciting series opener. After a frantic call from his 14-year-old nephew, Gabe, Heller returns home to Washington, D.C., from a job in California to find Gabe's mother in a coma and Gabe's stepfather, Roger, who is Heller's older brother, vanished without a trace. Though the brothers have been estranged since their father's much-publicized securities fraud conviction years earlier, Nick vows to protect Gabe and his mother and unravel the mystery of Roger's alleged abduction. The investigation leads him to some disturbing revelations about Roger, not the least of which involves a powerful-and dangerous-private military company. Written in staccato chapters that are emotionally supercharged and action packed, this thriller will more than satisfy adrenaline junkies and have them guessing until the very end. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Review by Library Journal Review

Few recent thrillers have as many heart-skipping moments and as rousing a climax as Finder's (www.josephfinder.com) follow-up to Power Play (2007), also available from BBC Audiobooks America. When Special Forces-trained investigator Nick Heller's estranged brother, Roger, is kidnapped, Nick must face off against some of Washington's most powerful forces to find him. Narrator Holter Graham (www.holtergraham.com) puts his significant acting skills to work, especially in his voicing of the truly unique protagonist. The suspense never falters, and listeners will be pleased by the satisfying ending to this complex tale. [Includes a bonus interview with the author; the St. Martin's hc, published in August, was a New York Times best seller.-Ed.]-Joseph L. Carlson, Vandenberg Air Force Base Lib., Lompoc, CA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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