The Fixer
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4.1 • 411 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder's breakneck stand-alone thriller about the secrets families can keep—and the danger of their discovery.
When former investigative reporter Rick Hoffman loses his job, fiancée, and apartment, his only option is to move back into—and renovate—the home of his miserable youth, now empty and in decay since the stroke that put his father in a nursing home.
As Rick starts to pull apart the old house, he makes an electrifying discovery—millions of dollars hidden in the walls. It’s enough money to completely transform Rick’s life—and everything he thought he knew about his father. Yet the more of his father’s hidden past that Rick brings to light, the more dangerous his present becomes. Soon, he finds himself on the run from deadly enemies desperate to keep the past buried, and only solving the mystery of his father—a man who has been unable to communicate, comprehend, or care for himself for almost 20 years—will save Rick...if he can survive long enough to do it.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rick Hoffman, the hero of this so-so standalone from Thriller Award winner Finder (Suspicion), has been fired from his high-flying job as a celebrity journalist, dumped by his fianc e, and reduced to camping out in his boyhood home in Cambridge, Mass., empty for years while his father has languished in a nursing home after a paralyzing stroke. When Rick finds more than $3.4 million in cash in the walls of his dad's crumbling manse, it greatly improves his financial situation, but greatly diminishes the quality of his life as he searches for the source of the loot. Despite being attacked, then kidnapped and tortured, he doggedly continues to uncover his father's sketchy past as "a bag man and a fixer." Rick manages to touch a lot of nerves, most notably those of a high-profile PR man connected with Boston's public works project known as the Big Dig. Rick's look into his father's past is touching and human, but readers should be prepared for an overblown plot and a predictable denouement.
Customer Reviews
As Good as Forsyth
Blending fiction and journalism in an entertaining mystery maybe too formula driven for some, but The Fixer is wonderfully written, highly readable, and downright suspenseful! Great read!
Best Finder book yet
Great flow, suspenseful and an enjoyable read.
Finders
So good a read I can find no criticisms.
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