Don't miss your chance to read the latest national bestseller by Joseph Finder -- POWER PLAY debuted at #7 on the New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists, #9 at Audible.com, #10 at the Wall Street Journal, and on the top ten at the Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and more! Keep reading for more information about Joe's books, upcoming appearances, and more!


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“The best book of its kind since Michael Crichton's DISCLOSURE” – Jon Land, The Providence Journal-Bulletin

Jason Steadman is a 30-year-old sales executive working for an electronics giant, a charismatic guy who seems to lack the “killer instinct” he needs to get ahead. Kurt Semko, a former Special Forces officer, teaches him discipline and shows him how to take advantage of opportunity – but the opportunities coming Jason’s way suddenly seem to be more than coincidence. And when Jason finds out what's really going on, he finds he's made the most dangerous enemy imaginable.

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Winner of the Gumshoe and Barry awards!
“…everything a thriller should be: suspenseful, entertaining – and, above all, thrilling.” –The Chicago Sun-Times

CEO Nick Conover is already struggling to hold his family and his company together. When a faceless stalker menaces his family, he takes the ultimate defensive action – which puts everything he cares about at risk. As Nick suspects a conspiracy against him at work, he desperately builds his own cover-up in the face of a dogged investigation.

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What's New

POWER PLAY is coming to Germany! Joe's new German publishers, Aufbau Taschenbuch, will publish NIGHTMARE, the German translation of POWER PLAY, in late September. Read all about it here.

Couldn't make it to Harrogate? Joe participated in a panel discussion about James Bond's enduring appeal. Read all about it, and listen to the panel here.

THE CHOPIN MANUSCRIPT is now available in Kindle format!  Read all about it here. This award-winning collaborative novel, written by Joe and 14 other authors, has previously been available only as an Audible recording; it is still not available in traditional print format.

Joe gave USA WEEKEND his "insider's view" on the DVD release of Kurosawa's classic film High and Low, a thriller about company men and class warfare in postwar Japan.  Read Joe's comments here

Joe has personally recorded an audio version of POWER PLAY for the blind and visually impaired. This recording is available through the Braille and Talking Book Library at Boston's legendary Perkins School for the Blind; for more information, contact the Perkins Braille & Talking Book Library at 1-800-852-3133, or email Library@Perkins.org.

If you missed Joe at Craftfest and Thrillerfest, David J. Montgomery reported on the Craftfest session "The Six Biggest Mistakes Even Bestselling Writers Make," here.

Joe recently talked to Jeff Ayers about winning last year's Thriller award for Best Novel, and serving as chief justice for this year's Best Novel award.  Read the interview here.

Joe's next project with his longtime publishers, St. Martin’s, is a four-book series featuring a high-powered corporate security investigator named Nick Heller, whom you're going to love. The first of these books is scheduled for Summer 2009. Stay tuned for details!

POWER PLAY was a nominee for the 2008 Gumshoe Award!  The editors of Mystery Ink named POWER PLAY one of the top five thrillers of 2007.  Read more about it here.

POWER PLAY is now available in paperback, but you can still buy a signed hardcover -- click here for details.

And in a first-ever event, the Harvard Business Review asked Joe to write an original story for its Interactive Case Study series. Joe's case study could serve as a prologue for POWER PLAY; read it here.

"Finder has become a master of the modern thriller."
-Boston Globe
Janet Maslin of the New York Times thought POWER PLAY was something special, and she's not alone; read more praise for the book here.  Profiles and interviews are showing up everywhere; read The Economist's profile here, an interview with New Mystery Reader here, and another at the Romantic Realm of Shadows here.




Joe with his Israeli editions at the Jerusalem Book Fair.
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"Why did you say those things about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in POWER PLAY?" ask several Canadian readers.  Read Joe's response, and submit your own question here.

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  • Joe's interviews with Malcolm Gladwell, author of BLINK and THE TIPPING POINT
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  • Excerpts from POWER PLAY and KILLER INSTINCT
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POWER PLAY, now in stores everywhere, is the latest book from the author critics have called “the master of the modern thriller” and “nothing less than a marvel.” Joe’s latest book, KILLER INSTINCT, received the 2007 Thriller award for Best Novel.

It was the perfect retreat for a troubled company. No cell phones. No BlackBerrys. No cars. Just a luxurious, remote lodge surrounded by thousands of miles of wilderness.

All the top officers of the Hammond Aerospace Corporation are there. And one last-minute substitute — a junior executive named Jake Landry. He’s a steady, modest, and taciturn guy with a gift for keeping his head down and a turbulent past he’s trying to put behind him.

Jake’s uncomfortable with all the power players he's surrounded by, with all their swaggering and posturing.The only person there he knows is the female CEO’s assistant—his ex-girlfriend, Ali.

When a band of backwoods hunters crash the opening-night dinner, the executives suddenly find themselves held hostage by armed men who will do anything, to anyone, to get their hands on the largest ransom inhistory. Now, terrified and desperate and cut off from the rest of the world, the captives are at the mercy of hard men with guns who may not be what they seem.

The corporate big shots hadn’t wanted Jake there. But now he’s the only one who can save them.

Power Play is a non-stop, pulse-pounding, high-stakes thriller that will hold the reader riveted until the very last page.


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