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Published Jun 2011
400 pages
Genre: Thrillers
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Joseph Finder introduced Nick Heller, a "private spy" who finds out things powerful people want to keep hidden, to widespread acclaim from the critics and wild enthusiasm from the readers, in the New York Times bestselling novel Vanished. Now, in Buried Secrets, Nick Heller returns, finding himself in the middle of a life-or-death situation that's both high-profile and intensely personal.
Nick has returned to his old home town of Boston to set up his own shop. There he's urgently summoned by an old family friend. Hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus desperately needs Nick's help. His teenaged daughter, Alexa, has just been kidnapped. Her abduction was clearly a sophisticated professional job, done with extraordinary precision. Alexa, whom Nick has known since she was young, is now buried alive, held prisoner in an underground crypt, a camera trained on her, her suffering streaming live over the internet. She's been left with a limited supply of food and water and, if her father doesn't meet the demands of her shadowy kidnappers, she'll die. And as Nick begins to probe, he discovers that all is not quite right with Marshall Marcus's business. He's being investigated by the FBI, he has a lot of shady investors, his fund is in danger and now he has a lot of powerful enemies who may have the motivation to go after Marcus's daughter. But to find out who's holding Alexa Marcus hostage, Nick has to find out why. Once he does, he uncovers an astonishing conspiracy that reaches far beyond anything he could have imagined. And if he's going to find Alexa in time, he will have to flush out and confront some of his deadliest opponents ever.
"Self-effacing, wry, and ridiculously competent, Heller makes a reasonably engaging protagonist, but this thriller's real star is the suspenseful, expertly paced plot." - Publishers Weekly
"Starred Review. Highly recommended... Crisp, clipped chapters and numerous cliff-hangers propel the action at a breakneck pace. Finder's outstanding writing and engrossing plot twists embellish a captivating summer read." - Library Journal
"Starred Review. About as perfectly plotted and suspenseful as possible, this is a tremendous high-wire act." - Booklist
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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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