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For Nick Heller, high-powered investigator with a private corporate intelligence firm, this time the investigation is personal.
Nick's estranged brother has vanished and with his disappearance old wounds re-surface in Nick's life as he is pitted against one of the most powerful private military companies in the world. Those in control will stop at nothing to protect the secrets that Nick is determined to uncover to find his brother. Secrets that reach into the highest level of the government. Secrets that threaten to tear Nick's family apart for good if they don't get him killed first.
This is the first book in a brand-new series by Joseph Finder, featuring a new ongoing series character, Nick Heller.
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Joseph Finder is the author of numerous thrillers, including the bestselling novels POWER PLAY, PARANOIA and KILLER INSTINCT. In addition to fiction, Joseph continues to write extensively on espionage and international affairs for the New York Times and the Washington Post. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After Paranoia, which I found great, a couple of years ago I read Killer Instinct, and, although I didn't mind the experience overall, I had already noticed that the very original mix of elements that had made Paranoia so special had been diluted with the purpose - I guessed - to convert into a more mainstream kind of thriller writing. With Vanished, Finder's donward spiral is continuing, as this book can easily compare with hundreds of thrillers currently on sale at bookshops, having the author lost most of its corporate insider characteristics that had made its previous books so enjoyable. Initially I quite enjoyed the fact that the story is told in the first person, and that it seemed to develop in a kind of classic-thriller manner, Nick Heller looking a bit like a modern Marlow. However, the book soon showed its limits: (1) most characters are stereotypical, some (e.g. Nick's adoloscent nephew Gabe)to an extent as to result really annoying (2) other characters (e.g. Nick's dad) are very shallowly described (3) the author spends a great deal of energy describing certain situations (e.g. his preparation prior to breaking into Paladin's training center) which are really irrelevant (and uninteresting) in the grand scheme of the book. Also, as previosuly mentontioned, this book doesn't contain any of Finder's previous books' insider views of modern corporate America, which is a shame. Overall a shallow book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I like Finder's novels, and Paranoia and Power Play were both very good.
Considering this is the first in a series with Nick Heller, I hoped that this would be also five star quality but at times it reminded me too much of Lee Child (a negative in my view). In Child's books, Jack Reacher can do anything and get anyone and is pretty much indestructible. Let's have someone who's a bit more normal and down to earth and vulnerable (whilst still winning the day).
That said, the novel has plenty of twists and turns and builds gradually enticing you to read more to find out what's going on.
Good, not great.
Considering this is the first in a series with Nick Heller, I hoped that this would be also five star quality but at times it reminded me too much of Lee Child (a negative in my view). In Child's books, Jack Reacher can do anything and get anyone and is pretty much indestructible. Let's have someone who's a bit more normal and down to earth and vulnerable (whilst still winning the day).
That said, the novel has plenty of twists and turns and builds gradually enticing you to read more to find out what's going on.
Good, not great.
Format:Paperback
This is a pretty good thriller - nothing outstanding, but perfectly readable. I really enjoyed the first half, which establishes the characters and sets up two intriguing plotlines. It's evident that there is going to be some kind of connection between the two stories, but it takes a long time to figure out what that will be. Nick Heller is a likeable protagonist and the story develops at a good pace.
However in the second half I felt things went a little off kilter. There is plenty going on, but the frantic pace sometimes means that revelations (or characters) which are interesting get rushed through rather than being fully developed. Instead of building my interest, the book started to lose it. I don't want to give away anything about the eventual resolution (which should come as a surprise), but I did feel it was pretty silly and far too rushed.
I'm a big fan of Joseph Finder's writing and I like the Nick Heller character. I will read the next installment in this series, but I'll also be hoping it's an improvement and more on a par with his earlier novels.
However in the second half I felt things went a little off kilter. There is plenty going on, but the frantic pace sometimes means that revelations (or characters) which are interesting get rushed through rather than being fully developed. Instead of building my interest, the book started to lose it. I don't want to give away anything about the eventual resolution (which should come as a surprise), but I did feel it was pretty silly and far too rushed.
I'm a big fan of Joseph Finder's writing and I like the Nick Heller character. I will read the next installment in this series, but I'll also be hoping it's an improvement and more on a par with his earlier novels.
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