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2.0 out of 5 stars
Clever plot; many silly, silly parts told in way too many words, April 5, 2006
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.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Thriller without many thrills, February 24, 2008
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Winning Blend of Corporate Intrigue and Crime Fiction, October 24, 2007
Company Man combines Joseph Finder's patented corporate thriller subject matter with that of a murder-based thriller. Finder's protagonist, Nick Conover, is refreshingly human for books of this sort. Although he has a painfully-familiar golden-boy pedigree (high school hockey star and BMOC) and now serves as CEO of the largest business in town, Stratton Corporation, Nick is a troubled man. As if the recent death of his wife, the challenges of raising two adolescent kids, and the local ostracism caused by laying off thousands of the town's residents weren't enough, Nick has to contend with a threatening stalker and a clandestine attempt by the Board of Directors to sell the company to overseas investors.
While certain readers may condemn Nick for his choices, I appreciated the moral ambiguity in which Finder places his hero. All in all, Company Man may be Finder's most complex and fully-realized novel, yet no sacrifices were made in pacing or suspense quotient.
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