The Finder by Colin Harrison -2008 Hardcover -1st Edition, 1st Print -Thriller

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“Complete, Very good condition, near new, Ex library with marks stickers stamps,”
Signed
No
Custom Bundle
No
Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Fiction
Original Language
English
Intended Audience
Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed
No
Edition
First Edition
Vintage
No
Personalize
No
Type
Novel
Era
2000s
Illustrator
unknown
Personalized
No
Features
Dust Jacket, Ex-Library, complete, 1st Edition
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
ISBN
9780374299491

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374299498
ISBN-13
9780374299491
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63086995

Product Key Features

Book Title
Finder
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Thrillers / Crime, Contemporary Women, Thrillers / Suspense, Thrillers / General
Genre
Fiction
Author
Colin Harrison
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-036574
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
Praise for books by Colin Harrison: &   Havana Room &   " Harrison's status as the noir poet of New York crime fiction ... will surely be enhanced by his latest thriller ... Harrison's storytelling hums and his prose shimmers all the way through this fascinating adventure. " -- Publishers Weekly " As sharp and insidery as a Tom Wolfe opus, with the giddyup pacing of an airport-rack paperback. " &   -- Men ' s Journal " [Harrison is] the class act of the urban thriller. A. " &   -- Entertainment Weekly " A consistently entertaining story . . . [Harrison] is a master of mood and atmosphere. " &   -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times &   " A great read, an elegantly crafted thriller you won ' t want to put down. " &   -- Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post Afterburn &   " A practically perfect literary thriller with a bitter lingering " afterburn " indeed. &   -- Kirkus Reviews " Extraordinary . . . A masterpiece. " -- The Washington Post, Praise forThe Finder: "Colin Harrison will have you gasping for breath in the eyeball-popping opening chapter ofThe Finder, his latest New York thriller, one unlikely to be distributed by the Tourism Bureau . . . Once again he's mucking about in the city's greedy underbelly in a pulsating novel that obscenely documents the gritty, ugly intersection of commerce and corruption . . . Harrison (The Havana Room, Afterburn) writes like Rambo on meth and throws in enough black humor to prove he's more brains than brawn." -USA Today  "[Harrison] is an uncommonly astute writer." -The Seattle Times "In the brutally effective first chapter of The Finder, two Mexican women are locked in their car and asphyxiated with sewage piped through the sunroof. From there, Colin Harrison spins a fast-paced NYC crime novel that incorporates a crabby billionaire financier with prostate problems, a sadistic Italian thug, conniving Chinese businessmen, the Mexican Mafia, a philosophically minded physician, and the titular hero, a former firefighter who just wants to track down his girlfriend, who's gotten caught up in the mess. Start reading this book and prepare to cancel all other plans for the next seven hours or so. A."-Entertainment Weekly "[An] intelligent New York thriller . . . a complicated tale of the nasty world of today's global capitalism. Here, almost everything, including love, is a lie, a performance, a manipulation designed to keep the big money flowing. In a lying world, hard information is essential, and the men at the top are willing to pay for it, even kill for it . . . Harrison is a wonderful descriptive writer."-New York Times Book Review  "As I plan an upcoming trip to New York, thinking of the show I want to see, the museum I hope to visit, the jazz club I'd like to drop by, I am inhabiting a fantasy world that has nothing at all to do with the profoundly corrupt, endlessly dangerous New York of Colin Harrison's brilliant, deeply cynical new literary thriller. "The Finder" is a panoramic look at the linked lives of perhaps a dozen characters, from billionaire financiers to Mafia thugs, from Mexican teenagers with forged green cards to society matrons who gossip about a "wheelchair gigolo." ("Yes, he only -- you know -- does it with women in wheelchairs.") As a study of a decadent, rapidly declining New York, "The Finder" somewhat recalls Tom Wolfe's 1987 bestseller "The Bonfire of the Vanities," but this is a far darker story and, to my mind, a far more interesting one. Harrison's Big Apple is rotten to the core."-WashingtonPost,  "Now is definitely the time to thrill to writer Colin Harrison."-New YorkDaily News,  "Colin Harrison's New York is an-eye-for-an-eye, dog-eat-dog Darwinian world with similar map coordinates to Tom Wolfe's Manhattan and the Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy. It's a place where glossy corporate offices and glitzy penthouses float upon a nasty, bilge-filled river of power and ambition, where malice and murder and mayhem lurk beneath supposedly civilized exchanges about cool restaurants and expensive shrubbery and hot new investments. It's a place where newly arrived immigrants from China and Mexico cross paths with highflying masters of the universe and mob-connected hooligans, a place where the newly globalized marketplace creates megadeals as well as mistrust, miscommunication and deadly misalliances . . . In "The Finder," as in earlier thrillers like "Manhattan Nocturne" and "The Havana Room," Mr. Harrison combines a, Praise forThe Finder:"Colin Harrison will have you gasping for breath in the eyeball-popping opening chapter ofThe Finder, his latest New York thriller, one unlikely to be distributed by the Tourism Bureau . . . Once again he's mucking about in the city's greedy underbelly in a pulsating novel that obscenely documents the gritty, ugly intersection of commerce and corruption . . . Harrison (The Havana Room, Afterburn) writes like Rambo on meth and throws in enough black humor to prove he's more brains than brawn." -USA Today "[Harrison] is an uncommonly astute writer." -The Seattle Times"In the brutally effective first chapter of The Finder, two Mexican women are locked in their car and asphyxiated with sewage piped through the sunroof. From there, Colin Harrison spins a fast-paced NYC crime novel that incorporates a crabby billionaire financier with prostate problems, a sadistic Italian thug, conniving Chinese businessmen, the Mexican Mafia, a philosophically minded physician, and the titular hero, a former firefighter who just wants to track down his girlfriend, who's gotten caught up in the mess. Start reading this book and prepare to cancel all other plans for the next seven hours or so. A."-Entertainment Weekly"[An] intelligent New York thriller . . . a complicated tale of the nasty world of today's global capitalism. Here, almost everything, including love, is a lie, a performance, a manipulation designed to keep the big money flowing. In a lying world, hard information is essential, and the men at the top are willing to pay for it, even kill for it . . . Harrison is a wonderful descriptive writer."-New York Times Book Review "As I plan an upcoming trip to New York, thinking of the show I want to see, the museum I hope to visit, the jazz club I'd like to drop by, I am inhabiting a fantasy world that has nothing at all to do with the profoundly corrupt, endlessly dangerous New York of Colin Harrison's brilliant, deeply cynical new literary thriller. "The Finder" is a panoramic look at the linked lives of perhaps a dozen characters, from billionaire financiers to Mafia thugs, from Mexican teenagers with forged green cards to society matrons who gossip about a "wheelchair gigolo." ("Yes, he only -- you know -- does it with women in wheelchairs.") As a study of a decadent, rapidly declining New York, "The Finder" somewhat recalls Tom Wolfe's 1987 bestseller "The Bonfire of the Vanities," but this is a far darker story and, to my mind, a far more interesting one. Harrison's Big Apple is rotten to the core."-WashingtonPost, "Now is definitely the time to thrill to writer Colin Harrison."-New YorkDaily News, "Colin Harrison's New York is an-eye-for-an-eye, dog-eat-dog Darwinian world with similar map coordinates to Tom Wolfe's Manhattan and the Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy. It's a place where glossy corporate offices and glitzy penthouses float upon a nasty, bilge-filled river of power and ambition, where malice and murder and mayhem lurk beneath supposedly civilized exchanges about cool restaurants and expensive shrubbery and hot new investments. It's a place where newly arrived immigrants from China and Mexico cross paths with highflying masters of the universe and mob-connected hooligans, a place where the newly globalized marketplace creates megadeals as well as mistrust, miscommunication and deadly misalliances . . . In "The Finder," as in earlier thrillers like "Manhattan Nocturne" and "The Havana Room," Mr. Harrison combines a, Praise for books by Colin Harrison: " " "Havana Room": "Harrison's status as the noir poet of New York crime fiction...will surely be enhanced by his latest thriller...Harrison's storytelling hums and his prose shimmers all the way through this fascinating adventure." --"Publishers Weekly" "As sharp and insidery as a Tom Wolfe opus, with the giddyup pacing of an airport-rack paperback." -- "Men's Journal" "[Harrison is] the class act of the urban thriller. A." -- "Entertainment Weekly" "A consistently entertaining story . . . [Harrison] is a master of mood and atmosphere." -- Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times" "A great read, an elegantly crafted thriller you won't want to put down." -- Patrick Anderson, "The ""Washington"" Post""" "Afterburn": "A practically perfect literary thriller with a bitter lingering "afterburn" indeed. -- Kirkus Reviews "Extraordinary . . . A masterpiece." --"The ""Washington"" Post"
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Synopsis
There's no doubt about it: Colin Harrison is a master storyteller. Critics and readers love his gripping, dark books. It's hard "not "to get sucked into his world. "Entertainment Weekly "calls him the "class act of the urban thriller," Michiko Kakutani of "The ""New York Times "lauds him as "a master of mood and atmosphere," and "Publishers Weekly "crows that Harrison writes """like an angel." Now the author of "The Havana Room," "Afterburn," and "Manhattan ""Nocturne "raises the stakes with an electrifying new thriller, "The Finder." Harrison spins the story of a young, beautiful, secretive Chinese woman, Jin-Li, who gets involved in a brilliant scheme to steal valuable information from corporations in New York City. When the plan is discovered by powerful New Yorkers who stand to lose enormous sums of money, Jin-Li goes on the run. Meanwhile, her former lover, Ray Grant, a man who was out of the country for years but has recently returned, is caught up in the search for her. Ray has not been forthcoming to Jin-Li about why he left New York or what he was doing overseas, but his training and strengths will be put to the ultimate test against those who are unmerciful in their desire to regain a fortune lost. Ray is going to have to find Jin-Li, and he is going to have to find her fast., In his electrifying thriller, a young, beautiful Chinese woman, Jin-Li, gets involved in a scheme to steal valuable information from corporations in New York City. When the plan is discovered, she must go on the run from those who will stop at nothing to have their fortunes returned., There's no doubt about it: Colin Harrison is a master storyteller. Critics and readers love his gripping, dark books. It's hard "not "to get sucked into his world. "Entertainment Weekly "calls him the "class act of the urban thriller," Michiko Kakutani of "The ""New York Times "lauds him as "a master of mood and atmosphere," and "Publishers Weekly "crows that Harrison writes """like an angel." Now the author of "The Havana Room," "Afterburn," and "Manhattan ""Nocturne "raises the stakes with an electrifying new thriller, "The Finder," Harrison spins the story of a young, beautiful, secretive Chinese woman, Jin-Li, who gets involved in a brilliant scheme to steal valuable information from corporations in New York City. When the plan is discovered by powerful New Yorkers who stand to lose enormous sums of money, Jin-Li goes on the run. Meanwhile, her former lover, Ray Grant, a man who was out of the country for years but has recently returned, is caught up in the search for her. Ray has not been forthcoming to Jin-Li about why he left New York or what he was doing overseas, but his training and strengths will be put to the ultimate test against those who are unmerciful in their desire to regain a fortune lost. Ray is going to have to find Jin-Li, and he is going to have to find her fast.
LC Classification Number
PS3558.A6655F56 2008

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