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Power Play

By: Joseph Finder
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
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An off-site corporate event gone disastrously wrong. The largest ransom in history. The price-tag: dead or alive. Now, in Joseph Finder's explosive thriller Power Play, it's up to Jake Landry—a modest, steady guy with a dark, hidden past—to save them all...

It was the perfect retreat for a troubled company. No cell phones. No BlackBerrys. No cars. Just a deluxe lodge surrounded by thousands of miles of wilderness and a desolate seacoast.

Jake Landry is a junior executive at the Hammond Aerospace Corporation, a steady, modest, and taciturn guy with a gift for keeping his head down—and a turbulent past he prays he's put behind him. Ordered to fill in for his boss at the annual offsite, he's out of his element. He's uncomfortable with the lavish accommodations and especially with the arrogant, swaggering men who run the company and the only person he knows there is the new special assistant to the CEO—who happens to be Jake's ex.

Then a band of hunters, apparently lost in the woods, crash the opening-night festivities. Soon the execs of a billion-dollar company, cut off from the rest of the world, find themselves at the mercy of a group of men with guns...and a cunning plan to take Hammond Aerospace for all it's worth.

But the hostage takers aren't who they appear to be and neither is Jake Landry. The high flyers hadn't wanted Jake to come along. Now he's the only one who can save them.

©2007 Joseph Finder (P)2007 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC

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"[This is Finder's] most entertaining and compelling novel of adventure and intrigue yet." (Boston Globe)

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so so

I felt it was a very contrived story .To many coincidenses. Maybe just not my cup of tea.

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Lame

Contrived, boring, predictable, and well...one of the lamest books I have ever listened to. Did I listen to the same book as the other reviewers? Can I have my 8 hours back?

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Predictable

If you've read enough in the thriller genre, this book will come across as interesting in parts, but not really one you look forward to getting back to. It's easy to figure out what will happen. The twist really isn't.

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Contrived and Predictable

The story didn’t measure up. The plot was contrived and predictable. It was like an eight hour episode of MacGyver. I had relatively low expectations that went unmet. Pick a different one!

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