Joseph Finder’s new thriller, ‘Buried Secrets’
Friday, August 19th, 2011Nick Heller, the private spy introduced two years ago in Joseph Finder ’s “ Vanished ,” is the guy you want on your side when your corporation needs deep background or your political life needs a cleanup. His job seems like a dream gig for a former intelligence operative who thrills at assessing damage and unearthing information for very substantial fees. But in “ Buried Secrets ,” Heller must uncover something far more urgent: a teenage kidnap victim, buried alive. That unspeakable terror is hardly new in American thrillers. Just last year, Lisa Scottoline buried the protagonist of “Think Twice” in a cornfield, and master storyteller Edgar Allan Poe has left generations scared witless with “The Cask of Amontillado.” But Finder rachets up the fear factor with a chilling techno-touch: Alexa, the 17-year-old daughter of billionaire Marshall Marcus, Heller’s longtime friend, is stuck in a crypt, her agony visible via a streaming video feed to her dad’s home computer. Read full article > >
