Summary: Joseph Finder’s plan was to become a spy. Or maybe a professor of Russian history. Instead he became a bestselling thriller writer. Finder, internationally bestselling author of eight novels, launches a new series in August 2009 with the publication of VANISHED. VANISHED introduces high-level corporate security consultant Nick Heller, and will be the first in a series of at least four books to be published by St. Martin’s Press. Finder’s most recent book, POWER PLAY (2007), debuted at #7 on the New York Times list; before that, the international bestseller KILLER INSTINCT won ITW’s Thriller Award for Best Novel of 2006. Other bestselling titles include COMPANY MAN, PARANOIA, and HIGH CRIMES, which became a hit movie starring Ashley Judd & Morgan Freeman. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Finder did graduate work at the Harvard Russian Research Center. He lives in Boston with his wife, their teenage daughter, and a neurotic golden retriever, Mia, a dropout from seeing-eye-dog school.
