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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780374299491
ISBN number: 0374299498
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: April 01, 2008
Publishing house: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: April 01, 2008
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Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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There’s no doubt about it: Colin Harrison is a master storyteller. Critics and readers love his gripping, dark books. It’s hard not to get sucked into his world. Entertainment Weekly calls him the “class act of the urban thriller,” Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times lauds him as “a master of mood and atmosphere,” and Publishing houses Weekly crows that Harrison writes “like an angel.” Now the author of The Havana Room, Afterburn, and Manhattan Nocturne raises the stakes with an electrifying new thriller, The Finder. Harrison spins the story of a young, beautiful, secretive Chinese woman, Jin-Li, who gets involved in a brilliant scheme to steal valuable information from corporations in New York City. When the plan is discovered by powerful New Yorkers who stand to lose enormous sums of money, Jin-Li goes on the run. Meanwhile, her former lover, Ray Grant, a man who was out of the country for years but has recently returned, is caught up in the search for her. Ray has not been forthcoming to Jin-Li about why he left New York or what he was doing overseas, but his training and strengths will be put to the ultimate test against those who are unmerciful in their desire to regain a fortune lost. Ray is going to have to find Jin-Li, and he is going to have to find her fast.
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well crafted intelligent read/best read for me in 2008 what a treat..grab it suzi 333
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Business in New York is a smoothly-oiled machine, from the more obscure mob figures that still exert influence on waste management to the high-rise buildings where billion dollar deals are made by men every bit as ruthless. In fact, Harrison's latest novel is a contrast in the old and the new, the subtle challenge of global stock manipulation, while the usual thugs continue to feed from the darker corners of criminal enterprise. The only difference is the price of their suits. But greed is greed and opportunity awaits the enterprising man. Jin Li runs a business that specializes in secure corporate trash collection, with sophisticated and expensive shredding trucks to ensure the privacy of companies who shield their every transaction from prying eyes. Jin Li works for her brother, Chen, who takes advantage of certain information his sister culls from her nightly work, insider information that allows Chinese investors to profit from the American market.
But one crack in this careful façade and a variety of interested parties seek to take advantage of unexpected opportunity. When Jin Li goes missing after an ugly murder of two of her Mexican employees, certain events are set in motion that threaten powerful men, including a hedge-fund billionaire determined to recover his investment, a PR man for a pharmaceutical company that may or may not be in trouble and a sadistic crook with Mafia connections who still does business old school. Then there is Ray Grant, Jin Li's ex-boyfriend, who is desperate to locate her before she becomes collateral damage for those who will do anything to preserve their fortunes and have the resources to avoid the piqued interests of law enforcement. That Ray's father is dying from a particularly painful kind of cancer only adds to the urgency of the younger Grant's quest.
In a departure from his usual dense dramas limned with human struggles, The Finder is a slicker, more action-fueled thriller from Harrison, one with a number of complicated pieces and an unpredictable plot. Harrison creates an intricate maze of colliding interests, each character dedicated to his own agenda, whatever action that demands. From high finance in Manhattan to a cement building in Red Hook, the author reveals a Tom Wolfian New York in constant flux, an uneasy truce between insular crime and globalization. This is a tense and driven novel, but I have to admit I miss the weighted prose of his earlier work. Luan Gaines/2009.
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Lots of characters that are nicely linked and intermingled. Interesting concept. Reads fast and has a pretty cool ending. A good book if you are in the mood for something that isnt too high calorie or time consuming.
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Of all of Colin Harrison's excellent thrillers, 'The Finder' is the least plausible. It's as if this was his very first novel before he became famous; and resubmitted now to turn a buck.
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This book is not for the squeamish. There is so much going on that you wonder how Harrison keeps it all together, and keeps it all believable. But he does! It is a fascinating look into the different sub-cultures in New York and how closely they can be related, despite being completely different. It reminds me of a line from a Kirsty MacColl song "from an uptown apartment to a knife on the A train, it's not that far....".
I enjoyed "The Havana Room" but this one just blew me away. Despite being relatively short in length (which is a blessing considering every other book these days seems to be needlessly long) Harrison introduces two very complex characters, Ray and Jin Li. They are both simultaneously criminal yet compassionate. We seem to know what they are thinking, despite their complex pasts, and we root for them. The rest of the seemingly unrelated characters round out the circle beautifully, each one at once powerful yet vulnerable. The book is written with intelligence and realism.
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