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Jake Landry is a junior executive at the Hammond Aerospace Corporation, a steady, modest, and taciturn guy with a gift for keeping his head down—and a turbulent past he prays he’s put behind him. Ordered to fill in for his boss at the annual offsite, he’s out of his element. He’s uncomfortable with the lavish accommodations and especially with the arrogant, swaggering men who run the company and the only person he knows there is the new special assistant to the CEO—who happens to be Jake’s ex.
Then a band of hunters, apparently lost in the woods, crash the opening-night festivities. Soon the execs of a billion-dollar company, cut off from the rest of the world, find themselves at the mercy of a group of men with guns...and a cunning plan to take Hammond Aerospace for all it’s worth.
But the hostage takers aren’t who they appear to be and neither is Jake Landry. The high flyers hadn’t wanted Jake to come along. Now he’s the only one who can save them.
"What he does do is hook his readers big time with an irresistible premise: watching the swaggering businessmen cower as a smart-mouthed former juvenile delinquent picks off the bad guys, one by one." - Booklist.
"Tight, fluid writing more than compensates for the occasional plot implausibility." - PW.
"Juggling the dog-eat-dog ethics of corporate life with a tense, scary plot, Finder's nail biter of a read is recommended for all popular fiction collections." - Library Journal.
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Joseph Finder's plan was to become a spy. Or maybe a professor of Russian
history. Instead he became a bestselling thriller writer.
Born in Chicago, Joe spent his early childhood living around the world,
including Afghanistan and the Philippines. In fact, Joe's first language — even
before learning English — was Farsi, which he spoke as a child in Kabul.
Finally, after a stint in Bellingham, WA, his family finally settled outside of
Albany, NY.
After taking a high school seminar on the literature and history of Russia, Joe
was hooked. He went on to major in Russian studies at Yale, where he also sang
with the school's legendary a cappella group, the Whiffenpoofs (and likes to
boast that he sang next to Ella Fitzgerald, an honorary Whiffenpoof). After
...
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