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New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers an exhilarating and timely thriller exploring how even the most powerful among us can be brought down by a carefully crafted lie and how the secrets we keep can never truly stay buried.
The chief justice of the Supreme Court is about to be defamed, his career destroyed, by a powerful gossip website that specializes in dirt on celebs and politicians. Their top reporter has written an exposé claiming that he had liaisons with an escort, a young woman prepared to tell the world her salacious tale. But the chief justice is not without allies and his greatest supporter is determined to stop the story in its tracks.
Nick Heller is a private spy--an intelligence operative based in Boston, hired by lawyers, politicians, and even foreign governments. A high-powered investigator with a penchant for doing things his own way, he's called to Washington, DC, to help out in this delicate, potentially explosive situation.
Nick has just forty-eight hours to disprove the story about the chief justice. But when the call girl is found murdered, the case takes a dangerous turn, and Nick resolves to find the mastermind behind the conspiracy before anyone else falls victim to the maelstrom of political scandal and ruined reputations predicated upon one long-buried secret.
Author Notes
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 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)
Reviews (5)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In Thriller Award-winner Finder's lively third Nick Heller novel (after 2011's Buried Secrets), the website Slander Sheet is about to run a story claiming that a highly placed U.S. government official has had a regular relationship with a prostitute. Lawyers for a top international law firm want Boston-based private intelligence operative Heller to check on the story's authenticity. Heller says he isn't interested, but he accepts the assignment after learning that the official in question is Chief Justice Jeremiah Claflin of the Supreme Court. Holes quickly appear in the allegations against Claflin, and Heller blows it out of the water. But it's been too easy, and Heller's instincts tell him there's far more to this case than just a smear attempt on a judge. Who owns Slander Sheet, and what was this case really about? Conventions of the contemporary political thriller abound, but a tight plot, sharp dialogue, and a cast of intriguing characters keep the story a cut above the genre pack. Author tour. Agent: Daniel Conaway, Writers House. (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
Hired to clear the chief justice of the United States of dallying with a call girl, Boston-based investigator Nick Heller becomes entwined in a complicated scheme that leads to murder. Superattorney Gideon Parnell is the Washington VIP who hires Heller. A black civil rights hero who's golfed with all the golfing presidents since LBJ, he's capable of pulling any and all strings in D.C. But he's powerless to prevent the gossip website Slander Sheet from running an expos about Chief Justice Jeremiah Claflin, who reputedly was given three nights with the hooker by a casino mogul in whose favor he had ruled in a recent case. Heller has 48 hours to discredit the story. It's easy enough to determine that Claflin never set foot in the hotel room in which he is said to have consorted with young Kayla Pittswhose working name is Heidi L'Amour. (The judge has one of the better alibis: he was having electroshock treatment.) But after Pitts is found dead, an apparent suicide, and Heller and his crack team infiltrate the secret ownership of Slander Sheet, unsettling new wrinkles in the case point to an unlikely suspect. The book, the third and best entry in a series, is about as airtight as you can get, plotwise. Heller, a former Special Forces operative in Iraq, is a convincing combination of physical toughness and intelligenceone of the book's pleasures is its descriptions of modern detection techniques. And in Mandy Seeger, the former ace Washington Post reporter who lives to regret writing for Slander Sheet, Heller has an attractive running partner and romantic interest. Finder shows off his top-notch storytelling skills, moving with ease from high places to low in the nation's capital. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
*Starred Review* Freelance intelligence operative Nick Heller, last seen in Buried Secrets (2011), is summoned to a meeting with Gideon Parnell, civil rights icon and the friend and advisor to every president over the last four decades. Parnell tells him that a scurrilous website that specializes in scandal is about to release an exposé documenting the chief justice of the Supreme Court's liaisons with a high-priced escort. Even worse, the trysts were paid for by a wealthy casino mogul who has just won a case before the court. Parnell assures Nick that the charges are baseless and asks him to prove it. Nick quickly proves that the exposé is bogus, but then the supposed escort is murdered, and the murk and the danger ratchet upward. Finder really knows his way around a thriller, and his sensibilities about Washington, scandal, and the immediacy and threat of digital publishing and electronic surveillance seem chillingly plausible. This is an exciting, insightful thriller with finely sketched characters in other words, a sure bet in public libraries.--Gaughan, Thomas Copyright 2016 Booklist
New York Review of Books Review
WE FIRST MET Maureen Coughlin when Bill Loehfelm's woman-of-steel protagonist was a cocktail waitress in Staten Island, and we got to know her better after she moved to New Orleans and became a police officer. Maureen is still on the right side of the law, if only barely, in LET THE DEVIL OUT (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26), which finds this volatile cop on her worst behavior, using her month of disciplinary probation to beat down men who stalk and attack women leaving bars alone at night. It's the kind of after-hours vigilante work that's gotten Maureen in trouble in the past. But "she was tougher now. Meaner. And she hoped she was smarter." Well, maybe. But physical violence has become her raison d'être; in fact, the only time she feels safe is "when she was running and when she was chasing. And when she was hurting someone else." Maureen has mastered the rationale of "using pain to justify pain," casting herself as the champion of battered women who don't call the police because they've been conditioned to think they've brought all this on themselves. Once she's back on the job, her official assignments include finding a female serial killer whose weapon of choice is a straight razor and keeping tabs on an extremist militia called the Sovereign Citizens. But Maureen is so weighed down by her own addictions (to cigarettes, booze, pills and violence) she's punishing herself as much as the creeps she clobbers into insensibility with her trusty blackjack. Despite all the physical punishment Loehfelm's rogue cop dishes out, there's an air of cozy familiarity about this series. Here Maureen's mentor, Sgt. Preacher Boyd, makes a welcome return visit, but villains like the local power broker Solomon Heath also rear their heads, as do their sociopathic offspring. That's the thing about New Orleans: No one can bear to leave for higher, safer ground, not the evil men who prey on the city's innocents or the decent folks who try to save them, and certainly not Maureen. "She and New Orleans, they were made for each other." Everything about the place captivates her, from the vibrant jazz scene ("Where was this music when she was growing up?") to the comforts of the Irish Garden, Ms. Mae's and all the other great bars she frequents over the course of this entertaining if highly unorthodox police procedural. AND NOW TO slip into something cool by Joseph Finder - not one of his slick thrillers about coldblooded masters of finance but one of his grittier series novels featuring Nick Heller, who walks and talks and uses his fists like a private eye but prefers to be called "a private intelligence operative." In GUILTY MINDS (Dutton, $28), Heller is entrusted with a sensitive case involving a Supreme Court justice. In fact, it's Jeremiah Claflin, the chief justice himself, who's about to be smeared by Slander Sheet, a sordid gossip website claiming that a Las Vegas casino magnate, the grateful recipient of a recent favorable court judgment, has been picking up Claflin's tab for the services of an upmarket escort service. The scandal deepens when the call girl in question winds up dead. Although the content of this thriller is a bit sleazier than that of Finder's tales of corporate shenanigans, his understated style is no less smooth and polished - and classy enough for troubled characters to pause and make a big deal about the relative merits of rye whiskeys like Old Overholt and WhistlePig. TO SOME READERS, a mystery can only involve a genuine puzzle - a complicated plot with specious clues and untrustworthy characters. And for these readers, there is FALL FROM GRACE (Viking, $26). Tim Weaver's shapely narrative is set in the vastness of Dartmoor, the desolate landscape in the southwest of England where a retiree named Leonard Franks, once a high-ranking police detective, went out to the woodshed in his slippers and never came back. His daughter, herself an officer with the Met, hires David Raker, who makes his living finding missing persons, to pick up this cold case. It's a tricky business, all right, especially when the investigation intersects with the tragic story of a woman recently released from a mental hospital and mourning her dead child. Although overly wordy, Raker's first-person account plays fair with the grim facts, while maintaining a level of dread that properly suits the moody setting. PITY ALL THOSE girls, so popular of late in genre novels, who wander off and go missing, only to reappear years later as a pile of bones. Heather Young's debut novel, THE LOST GIRLS (Morrow/ HarperCollins, $25.99), belongs in their weepy company, but the delicacy of her writing elevates the drama and gives her two central characters depth and backbone. The narrative is shared by Lucy, recently deceased but living on in her diary, and her grandniece Justine, who inherits Lucy's decrepit cabin on a lake in Minnesota. Both women have rich stories to tell, but Lucy's draws on her haunting memory of "one of life's sweetest but most fleeting times - the last days before childhood gives way to adulthood." For all the beauty of Young's writing, her novel is a dark one, full of pain and loss. And the murder mystery that drives it is as shocking as anything you're likely to read for a good long while.
Library Journal Review
In his 14th exciting suspense novel, and the third Nick Heller title, Finder (The Fixer) shows off his clever storytelling skills by packing action, politics, and modern detective techniques into a complicated plotline that leads to murder. A top Washington Post reporter writes a salacious story for Slander Sheet, a website specializing in dirt on celebs and politicians; the article details how a crooked casino mogul, whose case recently came before the Supreme Court, supplied a hooker for the chief justice. Shortly afterward, the call girl is found dead, an apparent suicide. Under a 48-hour deadline to discredit the story, Heller, while moving from sleazy bars to fashionable DC digs, discovers the mastermind behind the carefully crafted scandal and the conspiracy to hide a long-buried secret. Verdict Finder consistently writes timely thrillers that explore explosive issues highlighted in current world affairs-in this case, smearing the reputations of powerful politicians. [See Prepub Alert, 12/21/15.]-Jerry P. Miller, Cambridge, MA © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.