Its funny how sometimes you can find yourself at the confluence of bad luck and bad decisions. Nick, once beloved CEO of an all-American office furniture company, finds himself in such a position. He orchestrates a cover-up after a former employee is killed at his house following months during which his family was hounded by a stalker feared to be one of thousands of disgruntled laid-off employees. Nick as a character is multi-dimentional and human, a company man and yet a family man, emotional yet strong, troubled yet utterly dependable.... in a nutshell, he is flawed but whole. The reader is immediately drawn to his side. I had to chide myself as I found myself hoping he would be able to evade the consequences of his rash actions. This was a wonderfully paced story in which you got to see all sides of it as it developed almost chronologically. The reader was never ahead of the characters and learned things as they did, had a moment to evaluate their implications as they became clearer, a moment to see through my own eyes without the exasperating presence of an omniscient narrator. I will certainly be reading another book from Finder.
SCORE: 4.5 Pearls
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