Joseph Finder. (2007). Killer Instinct. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Joseph Finder. 2007. Killer Instinct. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Joseph Finder, Killer Instinct. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2007.

Joseph Finder. Killer Instinct. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2007.

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   • bioText: Joseph Finder is the author of several New York Times bestselling thrillers, including Buried Secrets, High Crimes, Paranoia and the first Nick Heller novel, Vanished. Killer Instinct won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Thriller, and Company Man won the Barry and Gumshoe Awards for Best Thriller. High Crimes was the basis of the Morgan Freeman/Ashley Judd movie, and Paranoia was the basis for 2013 film with Liam Hemsworth, Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman. Born in Chicago, Finder studied Russian at Yale and Harvard. He was recruited by the CIA, but decided he preferred writing fiction. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Association for Former Intelligence Officers, he lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Jason Steadman is a thirty-year-old sales executive living in Boston and working for an electronics giant, a competitor to Sony and Panasonic. He's a witty, charismatic guy who's well liked at the office, but he lacks the "killer instinct" necessary to move up the corporate ladder. To the chagrin of his ambitious wife, it looks as if his career has hit a ceiling. Jason's been sidelined.
But all that will change one evening when Jason meets Kurt Semko, a former Special Forces officer just back from Iraq. Looking for a decent pitcher for the company softball team, Jason gets Kurt, who was once drafted by the majors, a job in Corporate Security. Soon, good things start to happen for Jason—and bad things start to happen to Jason's rivals. His career suddenly takes off. He's an overnight success. Only too late does Jason discover that his friend Kurt has been secretly paving his path to the top by the most "efficient"—and ruthless— means available. After all, as Kurt says, "Business is war, right?"
But when Jason tries to put a stop to it, he finds that his new best friend has become the most dangerous enemy imaginable. And now it's far more than just his career that lies in the balance. A riveting tale of ambition, intrigue, and the price of success, Killer Instinct is Joseph Finder at his best.
*San Francisco Chronicle
** Pittsburgh Post Gazette

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   • source: The Boston Globe
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     "Heart-pounding suspense."

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   • source: USA Today
   • content: "Unstoppable."
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   • source: Houston Chronicle
   • content: "Masterful."
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   • source: Entertainment Weekly
   • content: "Explosive...Wickedly fun."
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   • source: The New York Times Book Review
   • content: "Master of a complex suspense formula. ...flawlessly executed violence, crisp dialogue, and taut pacing."
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   • source: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
   • content: "A first-rate thrill ride."
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   • source: Cosmopolitan
   • content: "A rollercoaster of a read."
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   • source: The Boston Globe
   • content: "Clear your schedule before you start reading this one. It's one of those books that once you start reading, you won't be able to put down."
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   • source: The Providence Journal-Bulletin
   • content: "The best book of its kind since Michael Crichton's Disclosure."
10. • premium: False
    • source: Chicago Tribune
    • content: "Truly frightening."
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    • source: Fortune magazine
    • content: "A crowd pleaser."
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    • source: San Francisco Chronicle
    • content: "This is fun stuff, with lots of plot twists. Finder once again proves adept at genre conventions and inventive in applying an action-movie sensibility."
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    • source: The Wall Street Journal
    • content: "Rich territory...an entertaining read."
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    • source: Publishers Weekly (starred review)
    • content: "Readers who enjoy movies where you have to fight the urge to shout, 'Stop! Don't open that door!' will love this one."
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    • source: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    • content: "Page-turning thrills."
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    • source: Sun-Sentinel (Orlando)
    • content: "Killer Instinct moves at such a brisk pace that the more than 400 pages zoom by. But Finder doesn't neglect character development for a quick-moving plot. With an economy of scenes and realistic dialogue, Finder sculpts believable characters and avoids stereotypes."
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      May 1, 2006
      In Finder's newest business thriller (after Company Man
      ), Jason Steadman, a middle-management salesman for an international electronics firm, befriends mysteriously well-connected tow-truck driver Kurt Semko and suddenly finds himself on the fast track to the executive suite, thanks mainly to the misfortunes of others. When a suspicious Steadman confronts Semko, his benefactor turns into a deadly foe who threatens to kill him, his wife and newborn baby. Finder's informed view of the dark side of the corporate world is deliciously devious and he is shrewd and witty enough to provide his likable hero with a particularly credible weapon against the seemingly omnipotent opponent: his salesmanship. Steadman, the narrator of this terrifying tale, is blessed with the gift of gab, and Scott Brick, one of the busier audio book performers, smoothly adjusts his delivery to the novel's carefully crafted patter and pacing. This includes quick shifts of tenor and tone to give voice to the self-confident sociopath Semko, Steadman's level-headed but needy wife, and his disgruntled and pink-slip–prone co-workers. Finder has created first-class material, but here it's Brick's impressive pitch that makes the sale. Simultaneous release with the St. Martin's hardcover. (Reviews, Mar. 13).

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      Starred review from March 13, 2006
      At the start of this masterful business thriller from bestseller Finder (Paranoia
      ; Company Man
      ), Jason Steadman, successful salesman at Entronics, an electronics company that's right up there with Sony and Panasonic, drives into a ditch near his office outside Boston while talking to his wife on his cellphone. Jason befriends the tow-truck driver who comes to his rescue, Kurt Semko, an ex–Special Forces soldier, and recommends him for a position at Entronics. In gratitude, Kurt begins performing fiendish little jobs for Jason that boost his sales and fortunes with the company. But Kurt eventually goes overboard, and people begin to die. The likable Jason finds himself trapped in a battle with a scary, seemingly unbeatable foe that builds to a rousing and satisfying climax. The villains may verge on the cartoonish, but readers who enjoy movies where you have to fight the urge to shout "Stop! Don't open that door!" will love this one. 250,000 announced printing; 8-city author tour.

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      March 15, 2006
      Finder ("Company Man", "Paranoia") remains the CEO of the corporate thriller in his latest page-turner. Jason Steadman is a cog in a huge company that specializes in plasma TVs. He wants to move up the corporate ladder but lacks the ruthlessness necessary to reach the next level. When he meets Kurt Semko, a former Special Forces officer, the two of them strike up a friendship, and Jason helps Kurt get a job in the company's security office. Prospects immediately start turning around for Jason, but he's ignorant of the inside help he's getting from his new friend, who could just as easily become his enemy. Finder reins in the opportunities to go over the top, creating an all-too-realistic look at the corporate life with some thriller elements thrown into the mix. For all fiction collections. [Prepub Alert, "LJ" 1/06.]" -Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L."

      Copyright 2006 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      March 15, 2006
      Finder writes a special brand of business-world thriller one might call Dilbert noir. His previous best-sellers, including " Paranoia" (2003) and " Company Man" (2005), spliced corporate cubicle routines with murderous plots and international intrigue. In his latest, Finder takes a man least likely to swim with the sharks--Jason Steadman, a very happy, contented salesman for an electronics giant--and places him on Fortune's wheel. The first spin of the wheel comes from Steadman's wife, a lovely Lady Macbeth type consumed with ambition for a picture-book family and a much bigger house. The next spin comes from a car accident that ends up with Steadman meeting a tow-truck driver, a special forces officer recently returned from Iraq. Steadman takes a liking to this man's man and gets him hired in his firm's corporate security department. Suddenly and inexplicably (to Steadman), his career skyrockets as his rivals experience a run of bad luck and even worse accidents. Part of the dreadful fun of this thriller is figuring out ahead of Steadman who is behind his good fortune; the rest of the suspense comes from watching Steadman seek to outwit his malevolent benefactor. Finder is a first-rate story weaver, though he sometimes lavishes too much detail on unnecessary scenes or bits of dialogue. Still, Steadman's 10-month ride from complacency to terror is filled with the requisite number of thrills and chills.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)

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