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Allen & Unwin, June 2008
Reviewed by Sally Roddom
In THE FINDER, Jin Li is a young, beautiful and very secretive Chinese
woman. Supposedly a supervisor for a company that cleans office buildings
in New York, she is actually an information thief who works for her
wealthy brother Chen’s Shanghai-based company. Chen uses the data she
steals to make millions in the stock market. Good Pharma, a company with
some promising new products in the pipeline, discover what Jin Li is up to
and arrange for her to die. Jin Li escapes the horrible killing as she is
conveniently taking a toilet break nearby, but two of her employees die of
asphyxiation when their car is hemmed in and filled with sewage. Realising
that she was the intended victim, Jin Li goes into hiding. Chen is worried
over her disappearance, and hires her ex-boyfriend Tom Reilly to find her
after Tom convinces him that he has nothing to do with her disappearance.
From here layer upon layer of plots are laid down. Twists and turns abound
with enough back stories to explain how the main players got to where they
are today. If you allow yourself the chance to stop and think about the
things you are reading, you will realise that reality is stretched
unbelievably wide for a non-fantasy novel. But if you can suspend
disbelief, and not question what you are reading, it is a fast paced
adventure full of deliciously evil and wacky villains, who make insider
traders look like kindergarten kiddies. The ending is odd – not what I
would have expected at all after the remorseless build up. I enjoyed
reading THE FINDER, but there was something that I couldn’t quite put my
finger on that stopped me from loving it.
Aug 2008 review originally posted on Murder and Mayhem
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