Joseph Finder

writer

Joseph 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 and 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.