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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780312939427
ISBN number: 0312939426
Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Quantity: 1
Page Count: 592
Printing Date: March 07, 2006
Publishing house: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Release Date: March 07, 2006
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'A high octane thrill ride!' - San Francisco Chronicle on Paranoia
Joseph Finder's New York Times bestseller Paranoia was hailed by critics as 'jet-propelled,' the 'Page Turner of the Year,' and 'the archetype of the thriller in its contemporary form.'
Now Finder returns with Company Man - a heart-stopping thriller about ambition, betrayal, and the price of secrets.
Nick Conover is the CEO of a major corporation, a local boy made good, and once the most admired man in a company town. But that was before the layoffs.
When a faceless stalker menaces his family, Nick, a single father of two since the recent death of his wife, finds that the gated community they live in is no protection at all. He decides to take action, a tragedy ensues - and immediately his life spirals out of control.
At work, Nick begins to uncover a conspiracy against him, involving some of his closest colleagues. He doesn't know who he can trust - including the brilliant, troubled new woman in his life.
Meanwhile, his actions are being probed by a homicide detective named Audrey Rhimes, a relentless investigator with a strong sense of morality - and her own, very personal reason for pursuing Nick Conover.
With everything he cares about in the balance, Nick discovers strengths he never knew he had. His enemies don't realize how hard he'll fight to save his company. And nobody knows how far he'll go to protect his family.
Mesmerizing and psychologically astute, Company Man is Joseph Finder's most compelling and original novel yet.
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This novel would have better served its audience as a made-for-TV movie that haunted the nether regions of the dial and clock. As compelling as the plot aims to be, the idea that a CFO and a board member could successfully conspire to sell a giant global corporation out from under the CEO suggests the protagonist is too brainless for readers to care about and certainly incapable of pulling off the Disneyishly convenient resolution to all his business and criminal problems. I'll try another novel by Finder to see where all his positive reviews come from, but this one is filled with trite dialogue emerging from non-credible situations encountered by a protag who stumbles through far too many crises with the assistance of a sexy child prodigy rather than his own brain and spine.
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I very much liked the other two Finder books I had read, Paranoia and Killer Instinct, before deciding to try this one, however, Company Man is so bad I couldn't even finish it which is something I very rarely do. The main character does his best to avoid rational decision-making and isn't really all that sympathetic and after a while I could not care less what happened to him.
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Joseph Finder's recent "Company Man" is another entry in his assured skein of business-platformed thrillers, and it's got plenty of blue meat for his readers.
His protagonist, Nick Conover, is a small town Michigan boy, a former local star athlete, who's fought his way to the chief executive officer slot at the area's biggest corporation/factory employer, a high-end office furniture manufacturer. (And there are some major office furniture manufacturers in Michigan.) But, unfortunately, Conover seems to have found his way to high office at a bad time: the company's been bought out by Boston-based venture capitalists, it's beset by rumors, and he seems to be presiding over its death, as he is forced to lay off people, becoming the least popular man in town. His house is being vandalized, presumably by a bitter former employee, and the local cops couldn't care less. He is further troubled by the fact that his wife recently died in an automobile accident; his children are deeply affected, and he's really not able to pick up the slack, much as he might wish to.
Finder has created some strong, resonant characters for this book. The action is fast, and the writing is good. He's evidently done a lot of research too, the level of detail is thoroughly satisfactory. But if the basic premise doesn't bite you, you might not enjoy it that much. The book "Barbarians at the Gates," dates back to 1988-89, I believe; as does the movie "Wall Street," whose character Gordon Gecko, played by Michael Douglas, had that famous line, "greed is good." We really have been hearing about venture capitalists and their ruthless, shady dealings for quite a while now. We've also been hearing about layoffs for quite a while now, and, heaven knows, they still surround us everywhere we look. People quite close to me have been laid off by longtime employers, and I have all the sympathy in the world for them. But don't expect me to feel sympathetic to fictional characters that've been laid off, or are forced to do the laying off - it's all so much more real in reality. As for corporate skulduggery, reality also does that so much better; and the newspapers do a more thorough job of reporting on it.
So this just might not be your meat.
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I read Paranoia & Killer Instinct & loved them....very fast paced & great fun reads. Perhaps the main character is not as sympathic a personality in this story, because two thirds of the way through this I am not glued to the page. Adored his late wife who seemed spoiled & materialistic.....immediately falls for a woman totally opposite. Is CEO of an immense corporation but is naively trusting & ineffectual at command of the "ship" & as advisor to his kids. Simply not as believeable a story as the others. However, I won't give up on Joseph Finder..........I'm sure he has a lot more to give us !
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If you read Finder's High Crimes and enjoyed it, you'll probably like Company Man, too. I didn't like High Crimes, and though I made it through to the interesting surprises at the end of Company Man, most of the middle 300 pages could be cut out without missing anything much.
My secondary complaint is that this is a novel about a corporate executive, but the writer clearly doesn't know much about the lives of corporate executives to make the main character feel real. I do give Finder credit for having enough reviewers to remove most of the obvious errors and throw in a few tidbits of proto-corporatese and spend a little time learning about the furniture business, but it still lacked the feel of authenticity.
My primary complaint is that except for the very ending, the book was a so-called 'thriller' without many thrills. Most of the plot was predictable and the story dragged on over 500 pages. It moved steadily, so I wasn't quite bored, but there are so many better thrillers out there, I wouldn't recommend Company Man except to Finder fans.
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