Joseph Finder

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Joseph Finder (born October 6, 1958 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American writer .

Life

Joseph Finder grew up in several changing locations, including Afghanistan and the Philippines , before the family finally settled in Albany , New York . After graduating from high school, he studied Russian Studies at Yale University and, after completing his bachelor's degree, finally completed his master's degree, also in Russian Studies, at Harvard University , where he then worked as a lecturer for a while. Finder made his debut as a non-fiction author in 1983 with Red Carpet: The Connection Between the Kremlin and America's Most Powerful Businessmen .

Finder made his first novel in 1991 with The Moscow Club , which was published by Heyne Verlag in Munich just one year later under the German title Moscow Connection . The book was sold in more than 30 countries and eventually became a bestseller. His second novel Extraordinary Powers , which was also published by Heyne Verlag in 1997 as The CIA Conspiracy , told the story of a Soviet spy in the ranks of the CIA . Only a few days after the book was published, Aldrich Ames , a Soviet spy, was actually exposed in the ranks of the CIA.

Finder finally celebrated great success with High Crimes , published in 1998 , which appeared in German a year later as On highest orders and finally in 2002 under the film title of the same name, High Crimes - Im Netz der Lügen . The American film director Carl Franklin adapted the thriller with Morgan Freeman , Ashley Judd and James Caviezel in the lead roles into a movie that grossed over 63 million US dollars at box offices worldwide. With his seventh novel Company Man , published in 2005, he celebrated a major critical success when he was awarded both a Barry Award and a Gumshoe Award .

By 2011 Finder had sold over 4.5 million books worldwide and had several of his thrillers on the New York Times bestseller list. He started his first book series in 2010 with private detective Nick Heller. He was thus in a seven-book book deal with St. Martin's Press . However, when the second part of Buried Secrets was already a big flop, he chewed his way out of this and initially concentrated on other stories again, with Finder having announced that a third Heller novel will follow.

Works (selection)

  • Red Carpet: The Connection Between the Kremlin and America's Most Powerful Businessmen (1983)
  • The Moscow Club (1991, German: Moscow-Connection , Munich 1992, Heyne Verlag, ISBN 3-453-05704-X )
  • Extraordinary Powers (1994; German: The CIA plot , Munich 1997, Heyne Verlag, ISBN 3-453-12435-9 )
  • The Zero Hour (1996, German: The Hour of Zorn , Munich 1997, Blanvalet, ISBN 3-7645-0025-5 )
  • High Crimes (1998, German: On highest orders , Munich 1999, Heyne Verlag, ISBN 3-453-14300-0 )
  • Paranoia (2004, German: Goldjunge , Munich 2004, Heyne Verlag, ISBN 3-453-43024-7 )
  • Company Man (2005, German: Jobkiller , Munich 2006, Heyne Verlag, ISBN 978-3-453-43144-7 )
  • Killer Instinct (2006, German: Masterplan , Munich 207, Heyne Verlag, ISBN 978-3-453-81058-7 )
  • Power Play (2007, German: Nightmare , Berlin 2008, Aufbau Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7466-2449-5 )
  • Suspicion (2014)
  • The Fixer (2015)
Nick Heller series
  • Vanished (2010)
  • Buried Secrets (2011, German: Lebendig und Buried , Berlin 2012, Aufbau Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7466-2819-6 )

Film adaptations

Awards (selection)

Web links

Commons : Joseph Finder  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joseph P. Kahn: Thriller writer Joseph Finder's publishing plot twist , bostonglobe.com , May 28, 2014, accessed September 14, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Finder, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois , United States