The Finder: A Novel

The Finder: A Novel
by Colin Harrison

The Finder: A Novel
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Author: Colin Harrison
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-26
ISBN: 031242888X
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Picador

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Book Review: Asian Investors Controlling Company Stock Price
Summary: 4 Stars

Chen is in China and offers confidential investment advice to a wealthy syndicate in Asia. He cleverly gets his inside information from his beautiful sister Jin Li who runs a mobile document shredding operation in New York. This allows her access to carefully selected companies they are contracted to. As part of her daily routine she is able to steal information that will allow the syndicate to make advance purchases that can push their holdings up or down and influence the direction the market will take. This plan worked well until a major wealthy investor, Bill Martz, had huge losses in a small pharmaceutical company that he had heavily invested in. Good Pharma, suffered a dramatic price drop because the Chinese group had shorted it. Most of the plot is about how Bill Martz figured out how the stock price had been manipulated and how he planned to recoup his losses. The other key figure was Ray Grant,Jr.,a former boyfriend of Jin Li. He had been a fireman, badly injured during the 9/11 attack, who had become a relief worker going to foreign locations to clean up after natural disasters. He became the foil to Martz as he searched for Jin Li who had been kidnapped. I have read all of Colin Harrison's books. He is one of my favorites. So, I was really anticipating this. But, for some reason, even though it's reasonably fast moving with a good plot and I liked it. But, not as much as his previous books. I didn't get that feeling I couldn't put it down. Nevertheless, I'd say most people would find it a worthwhile read.

Summary of The Finder: A Novel

Jin Li is a beautiful, driven young woman running a dangerous little operation. Manhattan corporations hire her for a simple but delicate task: to shred and destroy the reams of highly classified documents. But they don't know that she and her brother, Chen, have been using their discarded secrets to game the international markets, making a pile of cash. When someone at the Good Pharma corporation, whose stock is plummeting, uncovers the scheme, two of Jin Li's workers die a grisly death, and Jin is on the run. Her brother extorts Jin's old flame, Ray Grant--an ex-firefighter with a disturbing 9/11 past--to track her down. He'll have to comb every strata of New York, from the brutal Mexican mafia to the greed-fueled penthouse billionaires of Wall Street, to find her.

An intricate tale of avarice, corruption, and power, Colin Harrison's masterful new thriller is a "brilliantly executed novel" (The Baltimore Sun).

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