Many of the popular thrillers published in the U.S. tend to revolve around the CIA, the KGB, or Nazis. High Crimes is a notable exception. It centers on the neglected topic of U.S. military intervention in Central America under the Reagan Administration. And author Joseph Finder shows no love for...
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Boston-based thriller author Joseph Finder holds degrees in Russian studies from Yale and Harvard and taught for a time on the Harvard faculty. As of 2020, he has written 19 novels about industrial espionage and international intrigue. At this writing, I’ve read and reviewed all but four of...
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If you’re looking for a complex tale about industrial espionage, read no further. In House on Fire, the latest from bestselling Boston author Joseph Finder, you’ll learn about the opioid epidemic, private Israeli security, the Westchester Kennel Dog Show, and white collar crime on Wall...
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Juliana Brody is living the good life. She’s “in her early forties, but as her mother liked to say immodestly, she had good genes.” She’s a respected judge on the Superior Court in Boston, and happily married with two teenage children. And she’s touted to be in...
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Joseph Finder has written 16 novels since 1991. Like several of his other books, Killer Instinct is a tale of industrial espionage. But this is espionage with a twist—not one company (or one country) spying on a competing business but espionage within a single company, for the most part....
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In Paranoia by Joseph Finder, a devilishly clever tale, young Adam Cassidy works in a low-level job at the huge high tech firm Wyatt Technologies. When he decides to game the system and transfer company funds to pay for a retirement party for a man in the shipping department, his troubles begin....
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The Switch is Joseph Finder’s 15th thriller. Like all the others I can recall—I’ve read many of them—the novel pits an intelligent and capable upper-middle-class man against the powerful forces of government or a large corporation. In The Switch, an entrepreneur named Michael Tanner,...
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Guilty Minds unfolds with explosive power and mind-bending suspense. It is a stellar example of an accomplished writer at work at the top of his game. The story is intriguing from the outset. One of the most powerful men in the nation calls on Nick Heller to disprove the charges in a forthcoming...
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For years I’ve been a big fan of Joseph Finder’s work. He has written a slew of excellent crime novels over the years. (Buried Secrets and Paranoia were two of my favorites.) But Finder’s latest crime novel, The Fixer doesn’t measure up—it’s good, but far...
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Ben Ellison is a Boston patent lawyer who is a former CIA agent who had lost his first wife to an explosion engineered by the KGB. He possesses an eidetic memory and, after an unusually powerful MRI, the ability to read minds — and, yes, through his second wife, he is now the son-in-law of...
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Looking for a spy thriller that might keep you up at night? If you suspend disbelief, as science fiction writers ask you to do, you may enjoy this intricately plotted thriller from Joseph Finder, one of America’s best contemporary novelists of suspense. For starters, you’ll need to...
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How good is Joseph Finder’s latest thriller? Let me put it this way: for the first time in a great while, I literally couldn’t put the book down — I HAD to know who was doing what to whom! Danny Goodman is writing a biography of Jay Gould, the archetypal 19th century Robber...
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A review of Buried Secrets, by Joseph Finder. @@@@ (4 out of 5). This is by no means a typical detective story. As investigator Nick Heller searches for Alexa, the pretty teenaged daughter of hedge fund billionaire Marcus Marshall, Heller soon finds himself enmeshed in a deadly game involving international criminal forces and probably the Russian regime to boot.
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A review of The Zero Hour, by Joseph Finder. @@@@ (4 out of 5). This is a complexly plotted and highly satisfying novel of suspense. The Zero Hour tells the tale of a South African-born terrorist, Henrik Baumann, who has been sprung from a high-security prison near Cape Town to do a job for hire — unquestionably, the biggest in his long, blood-streaked career and, necessarily, the last. Baumann eventually squares off against FBI Special Agent Sarah Cahill, who has been put in charge of the Joint Terrorism Task Force’s operation to thwart his attack.
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Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review,
with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review,
with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.
Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review, with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review, with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.