Power Play (English Edition)
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POWER PLAY is the explosive new novel from Joseph Finder, the CEO of the corporate thriller - reminiscent of the film DIE HARD, this novel is a breathless, near real-time action, high-stakes adventure that you won't want to stop reading.
Jake Landry is a junior executive at the Hammond Aerospace corporation - a steady, modest and taciturn man with a gift for keeping his head down, Jake also has a turbulent past that he would rather forget.
Ordered to fill in for his boss at the annual company retreat, Jake is out of his element, surrounded by the arrogant, swaggering men who run the company and his only distraction is the CEO's special assistant - his ex-girlfriend.
Then a group of local hunters crash the opening-night festivities. Soon the executives of the billion-dollar company are cut off from the rest of the world, trapped by men who have guns and a cunning plan to steal a vast fortune.
But the hostage-takers aren't who they appear to be, and neither is Jake Landry.
The only question is who is going to win the power play?
For many readers, Joseph Finder’s
Paranoia was a breakthrough book. At a stroke (and after several earlier books), Finder became a must-read thriller author, even though he did not subsequently make the commercial breakthrough that many a lesser talent has – with lesser books.
Power Play shows that (as Finder aficionados know) the author has not been idle – each new book by him shows a refining of his style and skill. And if this latest novel does not quite match the exhilaration afforded by
Paranoia, it’s still a pretty persuasive piece of work – with ironclad plotting.
The theme here is corporate kidnapping. Finder’s protagonist, Landry, a talented aircraft engineer, finds himself invited to a corporate conference with his bosses. He’s ill-at-ease, condescended to by his high-flying colleagues – and even more discomforted when he finds an ex-lover – now a corporate high-flyer herself with the company -- is behind the invitation. But then an audacious, violent kidnapping of the entire group takes place. The body count rises, and Landry begins to look like everyone’s best hope for survival, while his more high-profile colleagues demonstrate less finely-honed survival instincts.
To say that the tension is orchestrated here with a master’s touch understates the case. Cliché it may be – but it has to be said: you won't be able to put this one down. It’s beginning to look like just a matter of time before Joseph Finder assumes his justified place in the upper echelons of thriller practitioners. --Barry Forshaw
POWER PLAY is the explosive new novel from Joseph Finder, the CEO of the corporate thriller - reminiscent of the film DIE HARD, this novel is a breathless, near real-time action, high-stakes adventure that you won't want to stop reading.
Jake Landry is a junior executive at the Hammond Aerospace corporation - a steady, modest and taciturn man with a gift for keeping his head down, Jake also has a turbulent past that he would rather forget.
Ordered to fill in for his boss at the annual company retreat, Jake is out of his element, surrounded by the arrogant, swaggering men who run the company and his only distraction is the CEO's special assistant - his ex-girlfriend.
Then a group of local hunters crash the opening-night festivities. Soon the executives of the billion-dollar company are cut off from the rest of the world, trapped by men who have guns and a cunning plan to steal a vast fortune.
But the hostage-takers aren't who they appear to be, and neither is Jake Landry.
The only question is who is going to win the power play?
Rang parmi les ventes Amazon: #95869 dans eBooksPublié le: 2009-11-26Sorti le: 2009-11-26Format: Ebook KindlePrésentation de l'éditeurPOWER PLAY is the explosive new novel from Joseph Finder, the CEO of the corporate thriller - reminiscent of the film DIE HARD, this novel is a breathless, near real-time action, high-stakes adventure that you won't want to stop reading.Jake Landry is a junior executive at the Hammond Aerospace corporation - a steady, modest and taciturn man with a gift for keeping his head down, Jake also has a turbulent past that he would rather forget. Ordered to fill in for his boss at the annual company retreat, Jake is out of his element, surrounded by the arrogant, swaggering men who run the company and his only distraction is the CEO's special assistant - his ex-girlfriend. Then a group of local hunters crash the opening-night festivities. Soon the executives of the billion-dollar company are cut off from the rest of the world, trapped by men who have guns and a cunning plan to steal a vast fortune.But the hostage-takers aren't who they appear to be, and neither is Jake Landry. The only question is who is going to win the power play?Amazon.co.uk For many readers, Joseph Finder’s Paranoia was a breakthrough book. At a stroke (and after several earlier books), Finder became a must-read thriller author, even though he did not subsequently make the commercial breakthrough that many a lesser talent has – with lesser books. Power Play shows that (as Finder aficionados know) the author has not been idle – each new book by him shows a refining of his style and skill. And if this latest novel does not quite match the exhilaration afforded by Paranoia, it’s still a pretty persuasive piece of work – with ironclad plotting. The theme here is corporate kidnapping. Finder’s protagonist, Landry, a talented aircraft engineer, finds himself invited to a corporate conference with his bosses. He’s ill-at-ease, condescended to by his high-flying colleagues – and even more discomforted when he finds an ex-lover – now a corporate high-flyer herself with the company -- is behind the invitation. But then an audacious, violent kidnapping of the entire group takes place. The body count rises, and Landry begins to look like everyone’s best hope for survival, while his more high-profile colleagues demonstrate less finely-honed survival instincts. To say that the tension is orchestrated here with a master’s touch understates the case. Cliché it may be – but it has to be said: you won't be able to put this one down. It’s beginning to look like just a matter of time before Joseph Finder assumes his justified place in the upper echelons of thriller practitioners. --Barry ForshawFrom Publishers WeeklyIf 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.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Détails de Power Play (English Edition)
Titre du livre : Power Play (English Edition)
Auteur : Joseph Finder
Date de sortie : 2009-11-26
Catégorie : Subjects
Nom de fichier : power-play-english-edition.pdf
Taille du fichier : 20.71 (La vitesse du serveur actuel est 29.58 Mbps
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2 internautes sur 2 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile.Un bon thriller dans le milieu de l'entreprisePar magicsonVoilà un roman relativement facile à lire, et qu'on ne peut plus lâcher à partir de la fin de la première partie : le héros principal, plutôt téméraire, a l'art de se mettre dans des situations périlleuses mais s'en sort toujours avec brio... Un parfait héros de thriller !Mais cela n'en fait pas un thriller comme les autres car le contexte est original : il s'agit d'un séjour de team-building pour les top-managers d'une grande entreprise qui tourne au cauchemar, sur fond de magouilles financières de la part de certains cadres supérieurs.Après cela on se dit que les postes à responsabilité sont vraiment dangereux !!
