Monday, September 21, 2009

Paranoia by Joseph Finder


About the book: Adam Cassidy is twenty-six and a low-level employee at a high-tech corporation who hates his job. When he manipulates the system to do something nice for a friend, he finds himself charged with a crime. Corporate Security gives him a choice: prison—or become a spy in the headquarters of their chief competitor, Trion Systems.They train him. They feed him inside information. Now, at Trion, he's a star, skyrocketing to the top. He finds he has talents he never knew he possessed. He's rich, drives a Porsche, lives in a fabulous apartment, and works directly for the CEO. He's dating the girl of his dreams.His life is perfect. And all he has to do to keep it that way is betray everyone he cares about and everything he believes in.But when he tries to break off from his controllers, he finds he's in way over his head, trapped in a world in which nothing is as it seems and no one can really be trusted.And then the real nightmare begins. . . .
My thoughts: Coporate intrigue isn't usually what I choose to read, but this one was good. What a twist at the end!

3 comments:

Jo, a retired teacher said...

I just finished it too (it was a free Kindle download), but I was not happy with the ending. Did he really walk away? Did Alana get him to go with her?

I guess I needed a sequel for follow-up.

Sharon said...

I wish I knew Jo! I hated leaving him walking down the road with his little box of stuff. I'm making up my own ending and saying he got in the car with her and went back to work. What do you think??

Jo, a retired teacher said...

I wanted him to just walk away. I wanted him to reject the deception and double-dealing. I guess I wanted him to grow a real conscience.

Maybe Finder's idea was to let each of us have our own ending.