Joseph Finder
Forfatter af Paranoia
Om forfatteren
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 vis mere 1983-84. His first book, Red Carpet: The Connection 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) vis mindre
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Serier
Værker af Joseph Finder
Det Bästas Bokval (1997) vol 192 : Mörkrets furste; Vedergällningen; Tinas seger; Kraschlandning 4 eksemplarer
Bukharin In Paris 1 eksemplar
Finder 12-c Mixed BL Prepack 1 eksemplar
Reader's Digest, Large Print, Vol. 237 1 eksemplar
The Survivor 1 eksemplar
Ora zero 1 eksemplar
Reader's Digest 1 eksemplar
Terrorist 1 eksemplar
The CEOs Private Investigation 1 eksemplar
Reati Capitali 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Reader's Digest Select Editions: The Ghost / Sacrifice / The Man in the Picture / Power Play (2008) 13 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Company Man • Outside Chance • Days From a Different World • Contact Zero (2005) 8 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Select Editions: Whiteout | Paranoia | Rosie | Web of Deceit (2005) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
Select Editions: The Silent Girl, The Little Village School, Buried Secrets and Dark Matter (2011) — Forfatter — 3 eksemplarer
Livros Condensados: Instinto Assassino | O Apelo Da Natureza | Casamento Com Um Desconhecido | O Filho De Noé (2000) 3 eksemplarer
Kirjavaliot - Nollahetki / Muutosten kesä / Vaarallinen tutkimus / Pilven varjot (1997) 3 eksemplarer
Nejlepší Světové Čtení: Paranoia | Silent Shadows | The Vanished Man | Immortal Bond (2006) 1 eksemplar
Livros Condensados: O Precipício | À minha procura | Um mais um verdadeiro amor | A troca (2018) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Reader's Digest Select Editions: Killer Instinct / Love & Dr Devon / Map of Bones / Secret Asset (2007) — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
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- Kanonisk navn
- Finder, Joseph
- Fødselsdato
- 1958
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bopæl
- Albany, New York, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Uddannelse
- Yale University
Harvard University - Erhverv
- professor
- Organisationer
- Harvard University
- Agent
- Christopher Little Literary Agency
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My first time reading a book by this author.
Good adventure story interesting but non complex characters, the book kept me engaged.
This is the first in a series of 4 books I will keep an eye out for some used copies.
Good adventure story interesting but non complex characters, the book kept me engaged.
This is the first in a series of 4 books I will keep an eye out for some used copies.
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- Værker
- 50
- Also by
- 24
- Medlemmer
- 8,496
- Popularitet
- #2,834
- Vurdering
- 3.6
- Anmeldelser
- 336
- ISBN
- 503
- Sprog
- 19
- Udvalgt
- 25
It is a place where we get easily distracted. After all you got to hold on to your passport, boarding pass and you better do so for dear life.
When Michael Tanner, a young upstart entrepreneur, gets singled out to have his shoulder bag searched by airport security, such distraction is provided.
When, after the routine search, he returns to pick up his personal items from behind the x-ray machine, unknowingly Michael Tanner makes the eponymous "Switch".
It may not tax your etymological understanding nor will you have to be versed in a world of allusions, literary or otherwise.
What Joseph Finder's "The Switch" provides is down-to-earth, unpretentious if predictable entertainment. In sum, worth a read.… (mere)