Nick Conover, hijo de un trabajador de una fábrica, es el director ejecutivo de una importante corporación en una ciudad empresarial. Nick, una vez el hombre más admirado en Fenwick, Michigan, es ahora, después de haber presidido despidos masivos, el más despreciado. Padre soltero desde la reciente muerte de su esposa, está luchando por aislar a su hija de diez años y a su enojado hijo de dieciséis años de la hostilidad de la ciudad. Cuando su familia se ve amenazada por un acosador sin nombre, los acontecimientos se salen rápidamente de control y Nick se enfrenta a un cadáver y circunstancias condenatorias. Para proteger a su familia, debe encubrir el homicidio con la ayuda de su viejo amigo y director de seguridad corporativa. Ahora Audrey Rhimes, una investigadora policial con sus propios planes, está decidida a conectar a Nick con el homicidio. Mientras tanto, Nick comienza a desentrañar una red de intrigas dentro de su propia corporación, que involucra a sus colegas más cercanos, que amenaza con desmantelar la empresa y hundirlo a él con ella.

Good book. Wasn't sure how it was going to end. A little too neat but not bad ( )

Joseph Finder writes books that are full of suspense and intrigue. He maintains the details of the cutthroat corporate world and is able to simultaneously address the equally complex work of raising teenagers with a psycho girl friend. Amazing research. The Overdrive version was almost 18 hours long and could benefit greatly if it were one third it's current length. ( )

Recently Nick Conover was the one, as the CEO of the Stratton Corporation, who instigated 5,000 layoffs, to keep the company afloat. So now he is known in the local media as "Slasher" and people turn away as he approaches them.

Last year his wife was killed in a late night motor car accident on an icy road. And now he has a stalker breaking into his house and leaving cryptic messages daubed on the walls. Nick and his family live in a mansion in a gated community but it doesn't stop the stalker. Over the past year he has had calls from the alarm company or the police. But the police aren't in a hurry to track the stalker down. The latest incident is the death of their family dog, and now Nick is seriously worried.

Nick gets his company security director Rinaldi to install a better security system and also accepts a gun from him. Soon after the new system is installed, the stalker comes back, and approaches the house. Nick shoots him in a panic, and Rinaldi disposes of the body. Nick then lives in fear that the body will be found and he will be exposed as a murderer.

The story makes an arresting start but a dead body isn't Nick's only problem. The Stratton Corporation isn't going well, he gets to the point where he doesn't know who to trust, there are problems at school with his 16 year old son, and then the body is found.

An excellent read. Highly recommended. ( )

I read this again on March 16, 2013 and enjoyed it just as much as the first time. ( )