By Joseph Finder
St. Martin’s Press
$24.95, hardback, 384 pages,
If you liked the movie Die Hard, you’ll love this book.
Jake Landry is a junior executive with California's Hammond Aerospace. He’s a tough guy who knows all about airplane engineering, office politics, and a whole lot more. The new female CEO believes someone in the company is corrupt and asks Jake to accompany her and the rest of the company’s top executives to a remote off-site location for a corporate retreat. This place is so far in the boonies that communication with the outside world is very difficult – and it soon becomes nearly impossible.
Just as in the movie, the executives are taken captive and the only one who can do anything at all to save them is Jake. Their captors want $500 million from the company in order to free them. Jake knows that if they get the money, everyone will be killed. The time has come for action and Jake has hidden talents that make him more than a match for his brutal captors.
The heart-pounding suspense and clever plot twists are enough to feed the adrenaline junkie in any reader. Sure the characters aren’t always fleshed out and Jake turns into a one-man army, but you’ll barely notice as you turn the pages late into the night.
