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The Finder: A Novel
by: Colin Harrison

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780374299491
ISBN: 0374299498
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: April 01, 2008
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: April 01, 2008
Sales Rank: 49016
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 Publishers 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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Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - the finder; a loser...
Of all of Colin Harrison's excellent thrillers, 'The Finder' is the least plausible. It's as if this was his first novel before he became famous; and resubmitted now to turn a buck.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Brutally intelligent....
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, ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Stock markets function on the quaint theory that they are effective
Colin Harrison writes intelligent thrillers w/o a serial hero, maybe except New York and the wonders of globalization.
I liked the Havana Room a lot, and the Finder has the additional attraction of a China connection. The plot doesn't need to be summarized again, that has been done by Amazon and other reviewers.
CH has the ability to tell a not so unusual story in a fresh and surprising way. He stays away from the cliches and the stereotypes that make me drop many thrillers on similar subjects lost in boredom.
I deduct a star because I am not 100% convinced that the plot driver here would work in real life: the office cleaning company as industrial spy agent who feeds investors half around the world with the info that they need to manipulate the share prices of small startup companies in Wall Street. Well, I don't know. Also, there are some minor blunders about things Chinese, eg his handling of names. ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Lost and Found
My introduction to Colin Harrison began with Manhattan Nocturne followed by The Havana Room and then one of his earlier books, Break and Enter (which most of his readers didn't love yet I enjoyed immensely). So I'm definitely a fan and look forward to reading anything by him. I think I would put this one on par with The Havana Room.

I read this on a recent trip to Vegas on a flight that should have taken four hours and ended up taking seven with all of the runway delays. Consequently, the book was started and finished in that one trip. There's nothing I like better than books that keep you on the edge of your seat, even though this time I was wearing a seatbelt so I knew I was secure.

This novel explores the far reaching effects of crime as its tentacles reach as far as China where the wheels begin to turn in a scheme involving a cleaning service and stealing information. It's elaborate and well ... Read More




 

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