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Company Man |  | Author: Joseph Finder
Creator: Scott Brick
Publisher: Orion
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 851673
Format: Abridged, Audiobook, CD
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Items: 5
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Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 075287201X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780752872018
ASIN: 075287201X
Publication Date: May 19, 2005
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 Ok October 30, 2009
freedomrulesok (London)
Finder is very good at putting 'ordinary' people in difficult circumstances and seeing how they fare. This is no different.
A CEO, having lost his wife, two kids, company lays off half the workforce, and then.... well, you have to read it find out.
I thought it took too long to get going but Finder is great at weaving in a few surprises. Not as strong as Paranoia and Power Play which were a cut above. This is ok.
 Not My Company Man February 6, 2009
Steve G (Devon UK)
Parts of the book are OK. But if Mr' Finder is going to continue to write about guns,he wants to have a better understanding on the ballistics side of things.
I think may be the corporate thing running through the the book put me off. By the time I had got to chapter 10,I found myself wanting him to sell the company and consentrate on the thriller side of things.
After reading Chicago Way,by Michale Harvey,Company Man was not the one to go to next. I doubt I will be reading any more by him. Having said all that..There are worse out there,and at the same time..a lot better.
with Company Man Mr. Finder does it again August 4, 2008
CC7 (Berne, Switzerland)
This is my second book by this author and certainly won't be the last. The plot is great, storytelling even better and the characters well developed. I never thought a corporate thriller could be so thrilling (I would have thought boring would be the describing word, but I'm happy to say I was wrong). The story brings up the subject of mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and I find it was really well explained so that one could sympathize with the character but never losing the thread of the plot or deviating from the story. Keep them coming, you are now among my favorite authors!
 High Stakes and Nowhere to Run January 7, 2008
Laurel Whitehead (Seattle, WA)
Nick Conover is the CEO of Stratton Inc. a company that makes office furniture in Fenwick, Michigan. He's lost his wife in an auto accident, so he's bringing up his two children alone. He's had to lay off about half his workers due to Chinese competition and bad economic times and because the company was the largest employer in town, it has made him pretty unpopular.
Person or persons unknown start vandalizing his house, someone is stalking him and then a deranged former employee breaks into his house. In a panic, Nick shoots him, then gets the company security advisor to help him cover up the crime.
Enter Police Inspector Audrey Rhimes. She is good at her job and finds out things at both Conover's work place and home are not as they seem to be, plus it would seem she has an axe to grind as her husband was laid off from Stratton and he has buried himself in the bottle. If Audrey digging into his life isn't bad enough, the new owners of Stratton are plotting behind Nick's back, so Nick's job and financial future are in jeopardy, not to mention his freedom, his sanity, his life and the lives of his children.
There is action a plenty in this story, red herrings galore, characters who live and breath, tension, suspense and more tension. This is one thriller that is very, very hard to put down. Can you tell I liked it?
Review Submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
A delightful riff upon literary traditions May 26, 2007
Michael Wells Glueck (Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Joseph Finder's Company Man is solidly rooted in traditions of story-telling and fiction, and, as T.S. Eliot postulated in Tradition And The Individual Talent that a novel should, it extends and adds substance to such traditions. One of those is the genre of theater of the absurd, or meaninglessness, popularized by Edward Albee. As in Albee's Zoo Story, many of the characters with whom we initially identify approvingly turn out to be tainted with conflicts of interest, dirty with ulterior motives; the politically correct exception is an African-American female homicide detective with sincere religious convictions. She is the true heroine, not the appealing but quietly deranged daughter (an uncanny precursor of the mad Korean student at Virginia Tech) of a mistakenly slaughtered man who had been one of the victims of a massive downsizing by a company presided over by the protagonist. The delight lies in the arch comments, wry remarks, and amusing allusions that pepper the narrative, such as the echoes of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 in the protagonist's recollection that his first girlfriend looked nothing like the women featured in purloined Playboy centerfolds. One example especially stands out, and is reminiscent of Walter Matthau's impersonation of a priest in the film "Buddy Buddy": when asked to administer last rites to a dying man, the actor mumbles all the Latin phrases he can muster, including "habeas corpus" and "flagrante delicto." Here is the humorous dialogue between a father and his precocious nine year-old son:
"Dad, it's not supposed to be good for you to eat barbecued meats. ... Do you know that barbecuing at high heat can create polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are known to be mutagens?"
"Now that's where you're wrong, son. ... They used to think that aromatic hydrocarbons were bad. Now they know that they're the best thing for you. What do they teach you in school, anyway?"
... "Don't say I didn't warn you if you get cancer later in life."
"I'll be dead by then, son."
"But Dad...."
"Okay, kid, here's your burger. ... Go fetch yourself a bun and some ketchup, okay? So instead of cancer, you'll get salmonella and e. coli bacteria. Mad cow too, if you're really lucky."
... "But I thought e. coli naturally colonizes the human intestine."
... "You don't stop, do you? Go play in traffic."
This is reminiscent of Mark Twain's account of his aging mother reminding him that as a child he had suffered a severe illness:
"I was afraid."
"Afraid I'd die?"
"Afraid you'd live."
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