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"Spectacular…The action is unrelenting…Electrifying."—Boston Sunday Herald
The news is shattering: The director of the CIA, Harrison Sinclair, has been killed in a car accident. Sinclair may have been a traitor—or the Agency's last honest man. Even his son-in-law, Ben Ellison, an attorney and ex-agent, has heard rumors of sinister forces within the Agency that could have ordered Sinclair's assassination. Soon he is thrust into a web of intrigue and violence beyond his control back into the CIA, and lured into a top-secret espionage project in telepathic ability funded by American intelligence.
"Gripping drama in which nothing is quite what it seems."—Seattle Times
As the project's first success, Ben uses his "extraordinary powers" in the perilous search for Vladimir Orlov, the exiled former chairman of the KGB—and the only man who might unlock the secret of Sinclair's death and the whereabouts of a multibillion-dollar fortune in gold spirited out of Russia in the last days of the Soviet Union. The hunt for the truth will bring Ben face to face with his past and culminate in a crowded Washington hearing room where, behind high security barriers, a Senate investigating committee is about to call its secret witness…as an assassin prepares to strike…in Joseph Finder's Extraordinary Powers.
"An extraordinary, powerful book…ingeniously plotted, fast-paced, and frighteningly credible."—Nelson DeMille
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"Excellent; rogue members of CIA and Germans intent on taking over Europe attempt to enlist a former CIA man who is a test subject in an experiment to allow him to hear people's thoughts. Various twists and turns."
— Joe (4 out of 5 stars)
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“Finder invents a credibly intelligent and complex protagonist…and plunges him into a dazzlingly labyrinthine adventure…Precise, crackling, tonally perfect prose.
— USA Today -
A spectacular novel of international intrigue and teeth-grinding suspense…The action is unrelenting…Electrifying.
— Boston Sunday Herald -
Gripping drama in which nothing is quite what it seems.
— Seattle Times -
An extraordinary, powerful book…ingeniously plotted, fast-paced, and frightening credible.
— Nelson DeMille -
It's a humdinger--John le Carré meets Stephen King!
— Ira Levin -
Finder winds his tale tighter and tighter as mystery is piled on mystery, intrigue on intrigue…
— Clive Cussler
Extraordinary Powers Listener Reviews
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" Imaginative idea ruined by a dull and needlessly detailed exploration of everything a character might do in the circumstances. It became intolerably unexciting for a thriller and wore out its welcome. "
— Joe, 2/2/2013 -
" Another fast moving well plotted story. Heroes get slightly unbelievable at points but then they wouldn't be heroes if they didn't. "
— Mailmanr5, 1/1/2013 -
" I am glad I read other Finder books before going back to this early work. A book that reads long and often gets off-plot. He is a really good other this is not his best work "
— Eric, 7/21/2012 -
" As suspenseful and on the edge of your seat as a Ludlum novel. Very good. "
— Lholfeltz, 5/30/2012 -
" Weak attempt at a thriller; not believable or interesting. "
— Mike, 1/18/2012 -
" 4 1/2 stars! Very engaging; could put it down! "
— Celestina, 9/22/2011 -
" Very suspenseful and a good plot....just not my kinda book. Too much Russian espionage. If that's your thing, you'll love it. "
— Lisa, 9/6/2011 -
" As suspenseful and on the edge of your seat as a Ludlum novel. Very good.<br/> "
— Lholfeltz, 12/11/2010 -
" Weak attempt at a thriller; not believable or interesting. "
— Mike, 11/2/2010 -
" 4 1/2 stars! Very engaging; could put it down! "
— Celestina, 7/28/2010 -
" Lawyer and ex CIA operative Ben Ellison is lured back in to ferret <br/>out a self serving, traitorous faction within The Company. Complex <br/>story. The author has an awkward, choppy style. <br/> "
— Chuck, 5/7/2010 -
" Imaginative idea ruined by a dull and needlessly detailed exploration of everything a character might do in the circumstances. It became intolerably unexciting for a thriller and wore out its welcome. "
— Joe, 10/26/2008
About Joseph Finder
Joseph Finder is the author of numerous New York Times bestselling novels, including. His novel Killer Instinct won the International Thriller Writers’s Thriller Award for Best Novel of 2006. Other bestselling titles include Paranoia and High Crimes, both of which became major motion pictures. Born in Chicago, he studied Russian at Yale and Harvard. He was recruited by the CIA, but decided he preferred writing fiction. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
About Christopher Burns
Jennifer Van Dyck has appeared on Broadway in Hedda Gabler, Dancing at Lughnasa, Two Shakespearean Actors, and The Secret Rapture. She has been in new plays by Keith Bunin, Ellen McLaughlin, Catherine Filloux, Douglas Post, A. R. Gurney, and Albert Innaurato. Her film and television credits include Series 7, States of Control, Bullets over Broadway, numerous Law & Order episodes, Ed, Spin City, and The Education of Max Bickford. Her audiobook narrations have won her three AudioFile Earphones Awards.