Joseph Finder: Power Play

Joseph Finder: Power Play (UK 2008)

From the Publisher:
"Power Play" is the explosive new novel from Joseph Finder, the CEO of the corporate thriller - reminiscent of the film "Die Hard", this novel is a breathless, near real-time action, high-stakes adventure that you won't want to stop reading. Jake Landry is a junior executive at the Hammond Aerospace corporation - a steady, modest and taciturn man with a gift for keeping his head down, Jake also has a turbulent past that he would rather forget. Ordered to fill in for his boss at the annual company retreat, Jake is out of his element, surrounded by the arrogant, swaggering men who run the company and his only distraction is the CEO's special assistant - his ex-girlfriend. Then a group of local hunters crash the opening-night festivities. Soon the executives of the billion-dollar company are cut off from the rest of the world, trapped by men who have guns and a cunning plan to steal a vast fortune. But the hostage-takers aren't who they appear to be, and neither is Jake Landry. The only question is who is going to win the power play?

Joseph Finder: Power Play. Headline, ISBN: 0755342070 (March, 2008), 437 p., £7.99.

Joseph Finder: Power Play (USA 2008)

From the Publisher:
An off-site corporate event gone disastrously wrong.
The largest ransom in history. The price-tag: dead or alive.
Now it's up to Jake Landry -- a modest, steady guy with a dark, hidden past -- to save them all...

Joseph Finder: Power Play. A Novel. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312347502 (March, 2008), 404 p., $7.99.

Joseph Finder: Power Play (UK 2007)

Joseph Finder: Power Play. Headline, ISBN: 0755342054 (August, 2007), 341 p., £19.99.

Joseph Finder: Power Play (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
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 been thrown in with, with all the swaggering and the 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 in history. 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.

Joseph Finder: Power Play. A Novel. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312347480 (August, 2007), 371 p., $24.95.