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More copies of this ISBN:Power Play: A Novelby Joseph Finder
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:It was the perfect retreat for a troubled company. No cell phones. No BlackBerrys. No cars. Just a deluxe lodge surrounded by thousands of miles of wilderness and a desolate seacoast. 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. Review:"If Jake Landry, a tough guy with an understanding of airplane engineering and an innate grasp of corporate politics, is too good to be true, he's still fun to watch in this sleek thriller from bestseller Finder (Killer Instinct). A junior executive at California's Hammond Aerospace, Landry possesses a remarkably flexible intelligence, which lands him on a high-end corporate weekend at a lodge called Rivers Inlet, where the new CEO, Cheryl Tobin, discreetly asks Landry to help her identify corrupt executives. Almost immediately, the lodge is assailed by five men who at first appear to be hunters turned vicious at the sight of the weekend participants' enormous wealth. As they interrogate the executives, however, it becomes clear that they know quite a bit about Hammond and its workings. Landry's job, then, is to figure out their purpose as well as rescue the entire crew. Tight, fluid writing more than compensates for the occasional plot implausibility. 200,000 first printing; author tour. (Aug.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:"The hero of Joseph Finder's most recent page-turner, 'Power Play,' is hardworking, loyal, knows just about everything and is unpretentious to a fault. Chief assistant to the vice president at a major aeronautics firm, Jake Landry is a self-described jack-of-all-trades who can talk with everyone at every level of the company, from design to finance to assembly. He's the kind of guy who ought to be... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) Review:"[A] delicious, perfectly prepared mixture of the genre's familiar ingredients....Power Play is no less a fast-paced fun ride because of its predictability. There's no point reinventing a wheel that's speeding you along the way you've enjoyed it before." Boston Globe Review:"Finder's not much on dialogue and characterization....What he does do is hook his readers big time with an irresistible premise." Booklist Review:"Power Play starts cleverly and later devolves into more conventional suspense tactics. But its premise is enough to send chills through corporate boardrooms, and through civilian readers too." Janet Maslin, The New York Times Review:"Juggling the dog-eat-dog ethics of corporate life with a tense, scary plot." Library Journal Review:"Finder's eighth novel matches [his] high standards. Power Play's myriad elements...come together in tightly coiled story. Despite the many plot threads, Power Play never feels overcrowded or clichéd." Chicago Sun-Times Synopsis:The critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling "master of the modern thriller" (The Boston Globe) returns with his most entertaining and compelling novel of adventure and intrigue yet. Synopsis:From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Paranoia" and "Killer Instinct" comes a pulse-pounding, high-stakes thriller set in the cutthroat corporate world. Martin's Press. Synopsis:It was the perfect retreat for a troubled company. No cell phones. No BlackBerrys. No cars. Just a luxurious, remote lodge surrounded by thousands of miles of wilderness. All the top officers of the Hammond Aerospace Corporation are there. And one last-minute substitute — a junior executive named Jake Landry. He’s a steady, modest, and taciturn guy with a gift for keeping his head down and a turbulent past he’s trying to put behind him. Jake’s uncomfortable with all the power players he’s been thrown in with, with all the swaggering and the posturing. The only person there he knows is the female CEO’s assistant—his ex-girlfriend, Ali. When a band of backwoods hunters crash the opening-night dinner, the executives suddenly find themselves held hostage by armed men who will do anything, to anyone, to get their hands on the largest ransom in history. Now, terrified and desperate and cut off from the rest of the world, the captives are at the mercy of hard men with guns who may not be what they seem. The corporate big shots hadn’t wanted Jake there. But now he’s the only one who can save them. Power Play is a non-stop, pulse-pounding, high-stakes thriller that will hold the reader riveted until the very last page. About the AuthorJoseph Finder is the author of several previous thrillers, most recently the New York Times bestsellers Paranoia, Company Man, and Killer Instinct. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. 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