Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Guilty Minds by Joseph Finder JOSEPH FINDER. New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers an exhilarating and timely thriller exploring how even the most powerful among us can be brought down by a carefully crafted lie and how the secrets we keep can never truly stay buried. The chief justice of the Supreme Court is about to be defamed, his career destroyed, by a powerful gossip website that specializes in dirt on celebs and politicians. Their top reporter has written an exposé claiming that he had liaisons with an escort, a young woman prepared to tell the world her salacious tale. But the chief justice is not without allies and his greatest supporter is determined to stop the story in its tracks. Nick Heller is a private spy—an intelligence operative based in Boston, hired by lawyers, politicians, and even foreign governments. A high- powered investigator with a penchant for doing things his own way, he’s called to Washington, DC, to help out in this delicate, potentially explosive situation. Nick has just forty-eight hours to disprove the story about the chief justice. But when the call girl is found murdered, the case takes a dangerous turn, and Nick resolves to find the mastermind behind the conspiracy before anyone else falls victim to the maelstrom of political scandal and ruined reputations predicated upon one long-buried secret. 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. "Joseph Finder has once again provided his readers with a first-rate crime thriller. he knows the value of careful construction, exhaustive research, good writing and characterization that all adds up to quite a fast read." —Bookpleasures.com. "Everyone’s favorite private spy, Nick Heller, is back. Smooth prose, good action, well-paced, and just a fun story. A real pleasure to read from beginning to end." —The Irresponsible Reader. "GUILTY MINDS excites and intrigues, and is the kind of book that can be digested in a single sitting. If Finder’s not already on your reading list, GUILTY MINDS demonstrates what the author has to offer: page-turning excellence." —Simon McDonald (Reader, Writer, Bookseller) "Solid, good, entertaining read." —Just Talking Books. Excerpt. Chapter 1. Lies are my business. They keep me employed. If you believe scientific studies, we all lie, several times a day. Can’t help ourselves. Sure, white lies are the grease that keeps the social engines running. But lies—real lies—are the source of all trouble. My job is really nothing more than figuring out who’s lying and why, and to catch them at it. That’s all there is to it. Fortunately, I have a knack for detecting lies. At least on my good days. Guilty Minds — Joseph Finder. New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers an exhilarating and timely thriller exploring how even the most powerful among us can be brought down by a carefully crafted lie and how the secrets we keep can never truly stay buried. The chief justice of the Supreme Court is about to be defamed, his career destroyed, by a powerful gossip website that specializes in dirt on celebs and politicians. Their top reporter has written an exposé claiming that he had liaisons with an escort, a young woman prepared to tell the world her salacious tale. But the chief justice is not without allies and his greatest supporter is determined to stop the story in its tracks. Nick Heller is a private spy -- an intelligence operative based in Boston, hired by lawyers, politicians, and even foreign governments. A high- powered investigator with a penchant for doing things his own way, he's called to Washington, DC, to help out in this delicate, potentially explosive situation. Nick has just forty-eight hours to disprove the story about the chief justice. But when the call girl is found murdered, the case takes a dangerous turn, and Nick resolves to find the mastermind behind the conspiracy before anyone else falls victim to the maelstrom of political scandal and ruined reputations predicated upon one long-buried secret. Joseph Finder books in order. His novels High Crimes (1998) and Paranoia (2004) have been adapted as major motion pictures whereas his works have won numerous awards; key among them the International Thriller Writers’ Thriller Award for Best Novel in appreciation of his work on Killer Instinct (2006). Joe lives in Boston and is a graduate of the prestigious Yale College and the Harvard Russian Research Center. Non Series. The Moscow Club (1991) Extraordinary Powers (1994) The Zero Hour (1996) High Crimes (1998) Paranoia (2004) Company Man (2005) Power Play (2007) Suspicion (2014) The Fixer (2015) The Switch (2017) Judgment (2019) Killer Instinct (2006) Nick Heller Series. Buried Secrets (2011) Vanished (2009) Guilty Minds (2016) Detailed book overview. Non Series. It’s 1991 after the Cold War and the services of Charlie Stone, a talented CIA analyst who made a name for himself at the height of the Cold War, are needed. When a top-secret tape forecasting a coup d’état in the Kremlin has been sneaked out of the Soviet Union by one of a few moles that still remain, Stone’s assessment reveals an incredibly violent power struggle taking place: one that could be linked to an old mystery involving the imprisonment of his own father. Amid all that, Stone still finds himself fighting to prove his innocence having been framed for a gruesome murder. CIA director Harrison Sinclair has been killed in a grisly road accident. Could he have been a traitor or did the Agency lose its last honest man? Ben Ellison, his son-in-law who is also an ex-agent and an attorney, takes cognizance of rumors about ominous forces at the heart of the Agency that could have ordered for Sinclair’s assassination. But he too is thrust into a web of violence and is enticed into a top-secret espionage funded by American intelligence; its project, telepathic ability. FBI Special Agent Sarah Cahill doesn’t know the man she is tracking but the “Prince of Darkness” knows her…and knows her intimately. When she is summoned to Wall Street to carry out an investigation, the counter-terrorism expert is unaware that she is the one under surveillance, up until the terrorist infiltrates himself into the deepest, most despairing corners of her life. Sarah soon races to uncover a fiendishly clever ploy;one that she must do before the clock strikes THE ZERO HOUR! A Harvard law professor and a high-profile criminal defense attorney with an affinity for winning tough cases, Claire Heller Chapman seems to have the perfect life. But things take a twist when her husband, Tom Chapman, is suddenly arrested by government agents on accusations of a brutal crime he claims innocence to. When she finds out that her husband is not who she thought he was, Claire must put her entire reputation on the line to defend Tom in a top-secret court-martial. At twenty-six, Adam Cassidy loathes his job as a low-level employee at a high-tech corporation. So when he is charged with a crime after manipulating the system to help out a friend, he opts to become a spy in the headquarters of their chief competitor, rather than going to prison. His newly discovered talent propels him to an affluent life where he drives a Porsche, lives in a lavish apartment and is dating the girl of his dreams. But when Adam tries to break off from his controllers, he soon discovers that he is trapped in a world where no one can be trusted and nothing is the way it seems… As the CEO of a major corporation, Nick Conover was the most admired man in a company town, until the layoffs came. When a faceless stalker threatens his family, Nick- a father of two and recent widower- realizes that the gated community they live in is of no reliable protection. He as such takes matters into his own hands but a tragedy strikes; one that sends his life into a downward spiral. Determined to uncover a conspiracy against him while being closely monitored by homicide detective Audrey Rhimes, Nick discovers strengths he never imagined he had and there’s no telling how far he will go to protect his family. Jake Landry works as a junior executive at the Hammond Aerospace Corporation. Ordered to fill in for his boss at the annual offsite, he massively feels out of place with the lavish accommodations, the arrogant men who run the business and his ex-who so happens to be the new special assistant to the CEO. But when a band of hunters gatecrash festivities on the opening night, the execs of the billion-dollar company are held hostage by a group of men brandishing guns. With a devious plan to take Hammond Aerospace unfolding, Jake is seemingly the only one who can save them. Danny Goodman, a single father, would stop at nothing to protect his teenage daughter, Abby, from more despair following the death of her mother. Barely managing to afford the private school that she adores, he accepts a loan from Thomas Galvin, the father to Abby’s best friend and one of the wealthiest men in Boston. But the DEA come sniffing as soon as the money is wired into his account. Faced with the impractical choice of indictment for accepting drug money, Danny finds himself immersed in a dangerous undercover assignment; one that will indubitably put his life and that of his beloved daughter’s in grave danger. Michael Tanner only notices he picked up the wrong MacBook in an airport security line when he arrives home in Boston. Eager to feed his curiosity, he discovers that the laptop- belonging to a US senator- contains top secret files. Nervous after realizing the mix-up, Senator Susan Robbins calls her chief of staff, Will Abbott, knowing all too well that she broke the law by uploading the classified documents to her PC. Desperate to avoid Snowden 2.0, Will seeks the help of an unscrupulous "fixer" after failing to gain Tanner's co-operation. Meanwhile the security agency has its darker methods of handling matters, and Tanner suddenly finds himself on the run-terrified for the safety of his family. There is a rumor that Juliana Brody, a judge in the Superior Court of Massachusetts, is in consideration for the federal circuit and maybe someday even the highest court in the land. When she meets a forbearing, vulnerable man at a conference in a Chicago hotel, she in a moment of weakness ends up having what was explicitly nothing more than a one-night stand. That was however no random encounter. Juliana discovers that her passionate night of infidelity was captured on video and that a frightening conspiracy that will turn her life upside down is unfolding. Personal humiliation and the possible end of her career nevertheless becomes the least of her worries, as her own life and that of her family is put in mortal danger. Jason Steadman, a thirty-year-old sales executive living in Boston, works for an electronics giant rivaled by Sony and Panasonic. Despite being clever, charismatic and well liked at the office, he seems to lack the "killer instinct" that would propel him up the corporate ladder. But everything changes when he crosses paths with Kurt Semko; a former Special Forces officer who was once drafted by the majors. He as such gets him a job in Corporate Security, seeing as the company softball team could use as a decent pitcher. Bad things however start happening to Jason's rivals whilst his career suddenly takes off overnight. His new best friend has become the most dangerous enemy imaginable. Nick Heller Series. Nick returns to his home town of Boston to set up his own shop when he is urgently summoned by Marshall Marcus, an old family friend and a Hedge fund titan whose teenage daughter Alexandra has been kidnapped in what’s evidently a sophisticated abduction. As Nick begins to probe the case of Alexandra who whose sufferings at an underground crypt are being streamed live over the internet, he discovers that Marshall was running a Ponzi scheme. When his old friend is arrested by the FBI, Nick moves to unearth an astonishing conspiracy that may very well reach up to the highest levels of government. It seemed like a normal night when Lauren Heller and her husband, Roger, went out to dinner…until they were brutally attacked. When Lauren awakes in the hospital twenty-four hours later only to realize that her husband has vanished without a trace, she turns to her brother-in-law Nick- a high profile investigator running a private intelligence firm. Nick has been estranged from his brother since the imprisonment of their notorious billionaire father, but he will do everything to protect Lauren and her son. He however makes shocking discoveries about his brother’s life, and must take on a lethal conspiracy in a bid to protect the life of Lauren and her teenage son. The career of the chief justice of the Supreme Court hangs by a thread when a powerful gossip website runs an exposé claiming that he had an affair with a an escort-a young woman willing to reveal her salacious tale to the entire world. Nick Heller, an acclaimed intelligence operative based in Boston, flies down to Washington DC when he is urgently summoned to help out with the potentially incandescent situation. He only has just forty-eight hours to disprove the accusations leveled against the chief justice, but everything deteriorates when the call girl is found murdered. Convinced there is more than meets the eye, Nick maintains his resolve to find the mastermind behind the sinister conspiracy. JOSEPH FINDER. In New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder's new thriller, private investigator Nick Heller is hired to infiltrate a powerful family whose wealth and reputation hide something far more sinister. Coming January 21, 2020. Preorder now! 'EXCELLENT. FANS OF TIMELY, THOUGHTFUL PAGE-TURNERS WILL BE RICHLY REWARDED.' —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review 'EXCELLENT. FANS OF TIMELY, THOUGHTFUL PAGE-TURNERS WILL BE RICHLY REWARDED.' —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review BUY THE BOOK Nick Heller returns! Trained in the Special Forces, the "private spy" specializes in digging up secrets powerful people would rather keep hidden. HOUSE ON FIRE is coming January 21, 2020. Preorder now! Buy HOUSE ON FIRE now! News & Interviews. The Big Thrill calls Finder a "master at his craft" and goes Between the Lines. Beyond the Cover with Suspense Radio podcast. Q&A with BookTrib.com, which calls HOUSE ON FIRE "cutting-edge suspense" Author Stories with Hank Garner podcast. Book Talk with Doug Miles. Also in Paperback. Click on a cover to learn more. About Joe. Joseph Finder is the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen previous suspense novels, including THE SWITCH, a stand-alone thriller, and GUILTY MINDS, the third to feature “private spy” Nick Heller. Joe’s novels HIGH CRIMES (1998) and PARANOIA (2004) have been adapted as major motion pictures. Joseph Finder Books In Order. Publication Order of Nick Heller Short Stories/Novellas. Plan B (2011) Amazon.de | Amazon.com Good and Valuable Consideration: Jack Reacher vs. Nick Heller (With: Lee Child) (2014) Amazon.de | Amazon.com. Publication Order of Standalone Novels. Red Carpet (1983) Amazon.de | Amazon.com The Moscow Club (1991) Amazon.de | Amazon.com Extraordinary Powers (1993) Amazon.de | Amazon.com The Zero Hour (1996) Amazon.de | Amazon.com High Crimes (1998) Amazon.de | Amazon.com Paranoia (2003) Amazon.de | Amazon.com Company Man (2005) Amazon.de | Amazon.com Killer Instinct (2006) Amazon.de | Amazon.com Power Play (2007) Amazon.de | Amazon.com Suspicion (2014) Amazon.de | Amazon.com The Fixer (2015) Amazon.de | Amazon.com The Switch (2017) Amazon.de | Amazon.com Judgment (2019) Amazon.de | Amazon.com. Publication Order of Harold Middleton Books. The Chopin Manuscript (2007) Amazon.de | Amazon.com The Copper Bracelet (2009) Amazon.de | Amazon.com The Starling Project: An Audible Drama (2014) Amazon.de | Amazon.com The Harold Middleton books are serial thrillers which are compiled by various authors. Publication Order of Anthologies. Mystery Writers of America Presents The Mystery Box (2013) Amazon.de | Amazon.com FaceOff (2014) Amazon.de | Amazon.com Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold (2014) Amazon.de | Amazon.com. Joseph Finder Biography: Joseph Finder was born to be a spy. Much of his childhood was spent living around the world, including time in Afghanistan and the Philippines. Capable of speaking multiple languages, Finder began learning Farsi as a child navigating the streets of Kabul. From an early age, Finder was placed in extremely stressful environments with many unfamiliar faces surrounding him. Eventually, Finder’s family settled permanently just outside of New York. Finder was born into the Cold War era of detente and mutually assured destruction with Russia. Consequently, it is no surprise that someone as cultured and well-travelered as Finder became interested in the Soviet Union, the KGB, and Russian history. From high school to college at Yale, Finder devoted his studies to anything and everything Russian From history to politics to the government, Finder became an expert on Russian affairs. Interestingly, Finder could have pursued a musical career as he was a member of the famed Yale a cappella group, the Whiffenpoofs. After graduating from Yale summa cum laude, Joseph Finder continued his soviet studies at Harvard university where he completed a masters degree. After a stint as a Harvard professor, Finder’s ultimate goal was realized when he was recruited to join the Central Intelligence Agency. It was at this point, that Finder decided to forgo his spy career and focus his efforts on becoming a fiction writer. While this may seem like a bizarre move for someone who had dreamed of being in the CIA for Finder it was a logical move. As a writer, Finder would be able to live out his life as a spy with the literary freedom to do whatever he wanted. In 1991, at the young age of thirty-three, Finder published his first novel The Moscow Club about a fictional KGB against the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. With the publication of his first book, Finder immediately received international acclaim and became an instant best seller in Europe. With his knowledge of foreign affairs and desire to be a member of the intelligence community, Finder is the ultimate thriller writer as he brings expertise, knowledge, and creativity to his novels. When not writing novels, Finder lives with his wife and daughter in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a founding member of the International Thriller Writers Association and serves on a variety of intelligence boards. His non-fiction writing on current events, particularly espionage and terrorism, can be found in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Thus far in his writing career, Joseph Finder has written a total of eleven novels. Two, Vanished and Buried Secrets, are a series about Nick Heller, while the remaining books are stand-alone stories. A movie, starring Harrison Ford and based on Finder’s 2004 novel Paranoia is due to be released in August of this year. Like the book, the movie will tell the story of corporate espionage that is full of suspense, romance, and drama. In this novel and movie, narrator Adam Cassidy is a low level employee at a telecom company who breaks company rules by charging a lavish retirement party for a coworker to the company credit card. Once caught, CEO Nick Wyatt offers Adam a take it or leave it offer: go to jail or go to work for a rival company and pass along information on their new product to Wyatt. This new product is the latest in telecom innovation and poses a threat to the survivability of Wyatt’s company. At the rival company, Trion Systems, Adam is in close contact with the company’s CEO on a daily basis. As he becomes closer to his new boss and gets accustomed to the high salary and perks, Adam begins to question whether or not he should feed Wyatt confidential information. With drama and suspense on every corner, the movie is sure to follow in the footsteps of the novel and become a Hollywood hit. In Finder’s first novel entitled The Moscow Club, the protagonist Charlie Stone is a CIA analyst on Russian affairs. Set after the Cold War has ended, the CIA learns of an imminent coup within the KGB against the Russian President. The only evidence of the threat is a top secret audio tape. Soon, Stone is framed for a horrible murder and finds himself on the run from his country. With nowhere to run, Stone finds himself in the Soviet Union where he meets the leaders behind the coup. The novel tells the story of Stone’s efforts to thwart the coup and stop a major restructuring of good to evil from occurring. Readers will be on their toes throughout the novel. While many of Finder’s novels are stand alone books that can be read in any order, he has written two books that follow the character of Nick Heller. The novels, Buried Secrets and Vanished, introduce us to Heller a former Special Forces soldier who specializes in digging up dirty secrets. In the first book Vanished, Nick learns that his estranged brother has been brutally beaten and kidnapped from the hospital. While searching for his brother, Nick is thrown into a secret world of lies and deceit when he learns his brother works for a defense contractor. Soon, Nick realizes that his search for his brother will be a violent struggle that pits him against individuals from his own country. In Buried Secrets, Heller has opened his own private security firm in Boston and is forced to defend his friends as enemies far and wide attempt to penetrate his inner-circle. With twists, suspense, and drama on every page it is impossible to put down a Joseph Finder thriller. His unique prose and ability to draw the reader in instantly is what makes Finder among the best fictional espionage writers today. Finder’s books have received international acclaim and have made frequent appearances on various best seller lists. With Finder’s preexisting expertise and knowledge in espionage, his novels bring an aura of believability that is not found in many of today’s thriller novels. As Joseph Finder begins his foray into Hollywood, if his movies are anywhere close to as riveting and exciting as his books than he will be the next big star. One Response to “Joseph Finder” I am really enjoying your novels. Read about two books a week so always on lookout for new writers. Keep up the great work. Bill.