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'This is edge-of-the-seat, pulse-racing storytelling with a whiplash finish'
( Daily Mail )'Delightfully dark . . . This is summer noir at its best'
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Nick Heller returns in an explosive new thriller.
When PI Nick Heller moves back to Boston to set up his own agency, he soon gets an urgent case even closer to home than expected.
Alexandra Marcus - teenage daughter of hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus - has been kidnapped. But it's no ordinary kidnapping - and it's not even clear what they want. She's been abducted by professionals and buried alive in an underground casket. A video camera is streaming her desperate pleas live over the internet. With only a limited supply of food and water, her time is quickly running out.
A close friend of the family, Nick is more determined than ever to catch the perpetrators. But when Marshall is arrested for fraud, Nick uncovers some powerful enemies and a conspiracy that reaches up to the very highest levels of government. Faced with opponents well-protected by wealth and position, Nick must play a dangerous game if he hopes to flush out those responsible before Alexa is buried for good...
When PI Nick Heller moves back to Boston to set up his own agency, he soon gets an urgent case even closer to home than expected.
Alexandra Marcus - teenage daughter of hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus - has been kidnapped. But it's no ordinary kidnapping - and it's not even clear what they want. She's been abducted by professionals and buried alive in an underground casket. A video camera is streaming her desperate pleas live over the internet. With only a limited supply of food and water, her time is quickly running out.
A close friend of the family, Nick is more determined than ever to catch the perpetrators. But when Marshall is arrested for fraud, Nick uncovers some powerful enemies and a conspiracy that reaches up to the very highest levels of government. Faced with opponents well-protected by wealth and position, Nick must play a dangerous game if he hopes to flush out those responsible before Alexa is buried for good...
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have read four Finder novels previously and rated them all highly. I can't help but feel that we experience "the fade" with this one though.
A girl is kidnapped and buried underground in the countryside. The girl's father, a billionaire, enlists the support of his friend Nick Heller, a former veteran who is now an investigator, to find her.
This sort of stuff has all been done before so I was waiting for something special to make it all click for me. There is pace and tension so I had no trouble turning the pages as we move to a very predictable close. The book will not win any literary prizes and the characterisations are all a bit shallow, with the protagonist's perhaps excepted.
At times, I felt Finder thought he would write about the mechanics of the kidnapping and the hunt and only work out the explanation for the kidnapping towards the end. He does deliver a scenario, but it is quite weak and quite a few questions are left unanswered. I also had trouble accepting all the connections Heller seemed to have for each problem which surfaced - including being able to place a direct call to a Minister in a small foreign government to have him lean on a bank to pretend that a very significant transfer of money had been made to an account. In other words, too much of the far-fetched stuff. A genuine twist or two may also have helped in developing the intrigue, but sadly there isn't a great deal of complexity in the plot.
Sorry, but although this is a page-turner, I just didn't feel Finder met his earlier standards here. 7/10
A girl is kidnapped and buried underground in the countryside. The girl's father, a billionaire, enlists the support of his friend Nick Heller, a former veteran who is now an investigator, to find her.
This sort of stuff has all been done before so I was waiting for something special to make it all click for me. There is pace and tension so I had no trouble turning the pages as we move to a very predictable close. The book will not win any literary prizes and the characterisations are all a bit shallow, with the protagonist's perhaps excepted.
At times, I felt Finder thought he would write about the mechanics of the kidnapping and the hunt and only work out the explanation for the kidnapping towards the end. He does deliver a scenario, but it is quite weak and quite a few questions are left unanswered. I also had trouble accepting all the connections Heller seemed to have for each problem which surfaced - including being able to place a direct call to a Minister in a small foreign government to have him lean on a bank to pretend that a very significant transfer of money had been made to an account. In other words, too much of the far-fetched stuff. A genuine twist or two may also have helped in developing the intrigue, but sadly there isn't a great deal of complexity in the plot.
Sorry, but although this is a page-turner, I just didn't feel Finder met his earlier standards here. 7/10
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A very fast moving thriller. Hedge Fund millionaire's daughter is kidnapped and buried underground with limited supply of air and water. The kidnappers want something from her father and Nick Heller is brought in by the father to find her. As Heller gets more into the case, the more he finds there are agendas and secrets he was unaware of.
It's an easy read and it is quite fun, but it does have its flaws. Sometimes the answers come a little too easily or Nick has just the right contacts to help him. If this doesn't bother you too much there is still a lot in this to enjoy.
It's an easy read and it is quite fun, but it does have its flaws. Sometimes the answers come a little too easily or Nick has just the right contacts to help him. If this doesn't bother you too much there is still a lot in this to enjoy.
Format:Paperback
Whenever I read a Joseph Finder thriller -- and I've now read all eleven of them -- the only question for me is HOW good will it be; it has never been an issue of will it be good. Regarding Buried Secrets, my answer is that it is a VERY good book and it serves to foster my opinion of Finder as one of the best of the best of today's thriller writers.
Buried Secrets is the second book in the series featuring Nick Heller, a former high-powered private intelligence company operative with Special Forces training who has now gone "private." In this book Heller is hired to find the kidnapped teenage daughter of a family friend, who happens to be a billionaire hedge find titan (think Bernie Madoff-type). The girl's captors are very canny and ruthless, but Heller -- with the help of his tech expert employee, Dorothy, and ex-lover, FBI special agent, Diana Madigan -- is able to force his way through layers of deception and manipulation to uncover the buried secrets behind her kidnapping.
Without going into more detail, let me just say that in addition to its suspenseful and exciting plot, Buried Secrets has all the other important ingredients that should keep you glued to your seat from beginning to end -- interesting and credible characters, realistic dialogue and a fast-paced writing style. To be honest, however, Buried Secrets is not flawless but the few flaws it has are too unimportant with which to take up your time.
All in all, if you haven't heard of Buried Secrets, I hope this review lets the secret out of the bag for you.
Buried Secrets is the second book in the series featuring Nick Heller, a former high-powered private intelligence company operative with Special Forces training who has now gone "private." In this book Heller is hired to find the kidnapped teenage daughter of a family friend, who happens to be a billionaire hedge find titan (think Bernie Madoff-type). The girl's captors are very canny and ruthless, but Heller -- with the help of his tech expert employee, Dorothy, and ex-lover, FBI special agent, Diana Madigan -- is able to force his way through layers of deception and manipulation to uncover the buried secrets behind her kidnapping.
Without going into more detail, let me just say that in addition to its suspenseful and exciting plot, Buried Secrets has all the other important ingredients that should keep you glued to your seat from beginning to end -- interesting and credible characters, realistic dialogue and a fast-paced writing style. To be honest, however, Buried Secrets is not flawless but the few flaws it has are too unimportant with which to take up your time.
All in all, if you haven't heard of Buried Secrets, I hope this review lets the secret out of the bag for you.
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This is a really good thriller, well ahead of many of the current crop of all-action heroes filling the bookstands right now. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Michael Watson
A solid thriller that unfolds at a relentless pace
Nick Heller is a specialist private investigator. When the teenage daughter of his billionaire friend Marshall Marcus is kidnapped, he is asked to help. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Julia Flyte
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