BURIED SECRETS

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Published by: St. Martin's Press
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Pages: 400
ISBN13: 978-1250000361

Series: Nick Heller Series #2

About

Winner of the Strand Critics Award for Best Novel for 2011

Joseph introduced Nick Heller — a “private spy” who finds out things powerful people want to keep hidden — in the New York Times bestselling novel VANISHED.

Now, in BURIED SECRETS, Nick Heller returns, finding himself in the middle of a life-or-death situation that’s both high-profile and intensely personal.

Nick has returned to his old home town of Boston to set up his own shop. There he’s urgently summoned by an old family friend. Hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus desperately needs Nick’s help. His teenaged daughter, Alexandra, has just been kidnapped. Her abduction was clearly a sophisticated, professional job, done with extraordinary precision, leaving no trace evidence. Alexandra, whom Nick has known since she was an infant, is now buried alive, held prisoner in an underground crypt, a camera trained on her, her suffering streaming live over the internet for all to see. She’s been left with a limited supply of food and water and, if her father doesn’t meet the demands of her shadowy kidnappers, she’ll die. And as Nick begins to probe, he discovers that his old friend Marshall Marcus seems to have been running a Ponzi scheme. His fund has collapsed, the FBI has arrested him, and now he’s become the most hated man in America. He has a lot of powerful enemies who may have the motivation to go after his daughter. But to find out who’s holding Alexandra Marcus hostage, Nick has to find out why. And once he does, he uncovers an astonishing conspiracy that reaches up to the highest levels of government. If he’s going to find Alexandra, he has to flush out and confront some of the most deadly opponents ever…

 
Series Overview

Nick Heller likes nothing more than being underestimated by an opponent. He’s self-deprecating, irreverent, a man who can’t stand pretense. Or bullies. He really doesn’t like being lied to — and no one’s more loyal. After serving in the Special Forces in undisclosed locations, doing things he’s not allowed to talk about, he became a “private spy.” Now he’s got his own boutique international investigation firm in his hometown of Boston. And as some very bad people are about to learn, he never, ever gives up.


Praise

"Readers, whether at the beach, on the backyard patio, or reading themselves to sleep at night, will find themselves in the grips of a delightfully dark tale filled with vividly crafted characters, terrific action, mystery, and absorbing narrative tension. This is summer noir at its best... Call it whatever you want, but Joseph Finder has produced the kind of masterfully crafted, pulse-throbbing popular entertainment that few readers will want to put down."
—Boston Globe

"A total wow of a read, Finder’s second novel starring Nick Heller...gets off to a quick start and keeps the throttle wide open for the whole ride. This is the kind of book you have to look up from, every once in a while, just to collect yourself... About as perfectly plotted and suspenseful as possible, this is a tremendous high-wire act."
—Booklist, starred review

"Bestseller Finder's compulsively readable sequel to VANISHED opens fast and never slows down... Self-effacing, wry, and ridiculously competent, Heller makes a reasonably engaging protagonist, but this thriller's real star is the suspenseful, expertly paced plot."
—Publishers Weekly

"Following the acclaimed VANISHED, Nick Heller is back... Crisp, clipped chapters and numerous cliff-hangers propel the action at a breakneck pace. Finder’s outstanding writing and engrossing plot twists embellish a captivating summer read."
—Library Journal, starred review

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