Company Man [Bargain Price] [Hardcover]

Joseph Finder (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 19, 2005

Hardcover, A Novel

Product Details

• Hardcover: 528 pages
• Publisher: stmartinspress (April 19, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 2286014949
• ISBN-13: 978-2286014940
• ASIN: B000ENWIGW
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,533,467 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Clever plot; many silly, silly parts told in way too many words, April 5, 2006

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Gab "gabifil" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Company Man (Hardcover)

I have to concur with several other reviewers, one who said,

"The story could have been written in about 200 pages, not this 500 + behemoth." Toward the end, I was skimming entire pages just to get to the climax. No kidding, in the thick of the climax, the author stops for a few pages to talk about a detective's Sunday morning church outing. You gotta be kidding me!

Also, I totally agree with those who say this is the dumbest "hero" ever. His actions aren't credible.

Finally, so many positive reviews? The author or publisher paid or encouraged others to write positive reviews. There's no way this deserves the positive praise it got.

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining Thriller, November 20, 2009

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James L. Woolridge "Wooly in PSL, FL." (Sunny Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Company Man (Hardcover)

This is my first try at author Joseph Finder and I will read more. This book drags in the middle and is a little long but it is a good story. The story revolves around Nick Conover the head of Stratton Corporation. He is called 'the slasher' in his community because of the job cutting he was forced to do. The is a struggle of good and bad within one's life, that is, doing what is right and wrong. Nick manages to do both to extremes. I call this a beach read, comfortable and you can pick it up and put it down while you put on sun tan lotion.

I am looking forward to the next of Finder's many books hoping the pace picks up a little.

2.0 out of 5 stars Thriller without many thrills, February 24, 2008

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D. C. Palter "literary curmudgeon" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Company Man (Hardcover)

If you read Finder's High Crimes and enjoyed it, you'll probably like Company Man, too. I didn't like High Crimes, and though I made it through to the interesting surprises at the end of Company Man, most of the middle 300 pages could be cut out without missing anything much.

My secondary complaint is that this is a novel about a corporate executive, but the writer clearly doesn't know much about the lives of corporate executives to make the main character feel real. I do give Finder credit for having enough reviewers to remove most of the obvious errors and throw in a few tidbits of proto-corporatese and spend a little time learning about the furniture business, but it still lacked the feel of authenticity.

My primary complaint is that except for the very ending, the book was a so-called 'thriller' without many thrills. Most of the plot was predictable and the story dragged on over 500 pages. It moved steadily, so I wasn't quite bored, but there are so many better thrillers out there, I wouldn't recommend Company Man except to Finder fans.