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    Guilty Minds

    Written by Joseph Finder

    Narrated by Holter Graham

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers an exhilarating and timely thriller exploring how even the most powerful among us can be brought down by a carefully crafted lie and how the secrets we keep can never truly stay buried.

    The chief justice of the Supreme Court is about to be defamed, his career destroyed, by a powerful gossip website that specializes in dirt on celebs and politicians. Their top reporter has written an exposé claiming that he had liaisons with an escort, a young woman prepared to tell the world her salacious tale. But the chief justice is not without allies and his greatest supporter is determined to stop the story in its tracks.

    Nick Heller is a private spy--an intelligence operative based in Boston, hired by lawyers, politicians, and even foreign governments. A high-powered investigator with a penchant for doing things his own way, he's called to Washington, DC, to help out in this delicate, potentially explosive situation.

    Nick has just forty-eight hours to disprove the story about the chief justice. But when the call girl is found murdered, the case takes a dangerous turn, and Nick resolves to find the mastermind behind the conspiracy before anyone else falls victim to the maelstrom of political scandal and ruined reputations predicated upon one long-buried secret.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 19, 2016
    ISBN9780147524676
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    Guilty Minds
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    Joseph Finder

    Joseph Finder is the author of several New York Times bestselling thrillers, including Buried Secrets, High Crimes, Paranoia and the first Nick Heller novel, Vanished. Killer Instinct won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Thriller, and Company Man won the Barry and Gumshoe Awards for Best Thriller. High Crimes was the basis of the Morgan Freeman/Ashley Judd movie, and Paranoia was the basis for 2013 film with Liam Hemsworth, Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman. Born in Chicago, Finder studied Russian at Yale and Harvard. He was recruited by the CIA, but decided he preferred writing fiction. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Association for Former Intelligence Officers, he lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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    • 4/5
      Interesting book. Easy read
    • 4/5
      A story about a supreme court judge is about to break...he was said to have spent time with a prostitute. Investigator Nick Heller gets involved and finds out there is more than meets the eye. This scandal is the tip of a very interesting iceberg.
    • 3/5
      Not nearly as good as the other books in the Nick Heller series, I am sorry to say.
    • 4/5
      Joseph Finder's 'Guilty Minds' is a competently written thriller with a couple unique twists that I'll need to avoid for spoiler purposes. Finder's writing is nothing special but his stories are what sells his work. They're generally well-plotted and exciting, but occasionally break down on the details. Other than the MacGyver-like action at the end, though, Guilty Minds was pretty solid on the believe-ability scale. The plot goes like this: sort of private investigator, Nick Heller, is contacted by a big shot lawyer to help discredit an upcoming on-line article describing scandalous behavior by a supreme court judge. In relatively short order he does what he was hired to do, but the young lady at the center of the action turns out to be a victim herself and many aspects of his investigation seem fishy. He begins to dig and quickly discovers layers upon layers of nefarious acts by corrupt cops, shady private security folks, and others. The resolution, although sort of abrupt, made sense based on a few hints dropped throughout the narrative.Guilty Minds is a nice addition to the Nick Heller series and is certainly worth a read if you're a fan of fast-paced thrillers.
    • 4/5
      A fast-paced action thriller, set in contemporary Washington, D.C. Tough good guy Nick Heller needs to foil a plot to permanently damage the reputation of a U.S. Supreme Court justice and then find who is behind the plot. There's lots of whiz bang action, electronic gimmickry and bad guys but not a lot of character development. It's exciting and entertaining.
    • 3/5
      I shared the opinions of some others that liked the first half or part of the book but did not like the last half or ending. I liked the Nick Heller character (first book of his series that I read) but the story jumped the shark for me when the call girl got killed. I was happy just to read a story on how Heller discredited the scandal story about the Supreme Court justice for prostitution.
    • 5/5
      The chief justice of the Supreme Court in jeopardy as a powerful gossip website threatens to destroy his career. Nick Heller, hired to help diffuse this potentially explosive situation, has a mere forty-eight hours to disprove the gossip story, but when the political scandal is marred by murder, Nick must find the mastermind of the conspiracy before a long-buried secret claims more victims.With its believable characters, fast pace, and unexpected plot twists, readers will find this tale of political intrigue unputdownable. Highly recommended.
    • 5/5
      Joseph Finder never disappoints. Another great thriller that captivated me.
    • 5/5
      It’s a good story well written. I find it just enough turning to be interesting and just enough development to feel engaging
    • 3/5
      Great thriller. Nick Heller goes back to DC to deal with the usual politics, scandal & corruption. the thriller has a couple unique twists. Nick Heller continues to be a strong, many-faceted and likeable lead character who wriggles his way out of many seemingly impossible situations. The book seemed done at 5.5 hours, but then it was only half done and another story emerged.
    • 3/5
      Hurricane reading. I didn't realize it was the third in a series. I need to back up.
    • 3/5
      I finish this book but I'm not sure why. It kind of held up a little until about the last quarter and then it painted itself into one cliche after another and soon not only did I not care, by the end I was getting insulted. I think maybe Joseph Finder and I are done.
    • 4/5
      Guilty Minds by Joseph Finder is one of those hard-to-put-down thrillers you wish would come along more often. I read this book in the course of a day. Nick Heller is a guy who gets things done. Not just your average private detective, he’s more of a Special Ops investigator with a heart. Hired to squash a story about the Supreme Court Justice and a prostitute before an Internet tabloid releases it, Heller finds himself embroiled in a much larger and far more dangerous enterprise. The story is interesting, the characters are strong and the pace is fast. Everything you want in a thriller.
    • 3/5
      A scandal sheet is about to publish an article linking the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to a paid escort. The Justice insists the incidents never happened despite eyewitness reports The reporter was a Pulitzer prize winner who formerly worked for The Washington Post. Private investigator Nick Heller is called upon to find out why the story was being published and to disprove it. He has forty eight hours before the paper hits the streets.Nick’s investigation leads him into tight situations where he must rely on his multiple skills (e.g., picking a lock with a paper clip, escaping from a locked room with no other exit before he dies from the gas being pumped into it).The plot moves quickly with, perhaps, too many details about location, his dropping a client because he didn’t like the way he treated his staff, than are really not necessary. It is, on the whole, well-written. Once again, there are too many unnecessarily short chapters. I always drop one star from my reviews because of that. Interesting quote: “There are people in the world who think the rules don’t apply to them...and my job is to take them down.”Interesting history: “William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer had their correspondents invent sensational, fictional stories about the atrocities in Cuba, which eventually provoked the United States into going to war with Spain....They had their own war going on–over circulation. They did it to sell newspapers.”
    • 3/5
      Guilty minds, Joseph Finder, author; Holter Graham, narratorThis book is definitely not about rocket science. The plot is obvious, and although there are some surprises, they are not earth shattering. However, this book sure made our long road trip pass quickly. The story unfolds easily with lots of excitement and generates the reader’s continued interest because the salacious theme of sexual misconduct is a common one in our modern world.Basically, a Supreme Court justice is about to be humiliated by a story about his improper sexual behavior with a very highly paid prostitute. Although he denies it, and he has a rock solid alibi, his alibi is a bigger secret than the false story about to come out, and therefore, it cannot be used. Nicholas Heller is the private investigator hired by a very high profile law firm headed up by Gideon Parnell, a 75-year-old black attorney who rose from the lap of poverty to become the top counsel in the firm. His reputation is impeccable. Parnell has charged Nick with the task of clearing the name of Chief Justice Jeremiah Claflin, with a window of opportunity amounting to just two days. It will require a Herculean effort that may fail. After he meets with the Justice, he becomes convinced of his innocence, accepts the case and sets out to try and locate and question the accuser who uses an assumed name. The reporter, Mandy Seeger, from the magazine Slander, that is pursuing this story, is determined to put it in print; although they have been asked to extend the deadline for publication, to allow for an investigation into the charges, they have refused. Mandy and the head of the magazine are convinced that the story is true. Since no one actually knows who owns this magazine, there is little or no other recourse, but to try and put the story to bed as quickly as possible by proving the Justice’s innocence. Once the accuser is located, will Nick be able to prove she has lied about the Justice? Will he be able to prevent the story from leaking out? Will he have enough time to accomplish this task for his client? If it is a lie and it makes it out into the public domain, will he be able to do damage control afterwards, or will a possibly innocent man suffer the consequences of the false accusation? The theme is current, and the consequences are enormous for everyone involved.
    • 5/5
      Guilty Minds – A Great Suspense ThrillerGuilty Minds is the third in the Nick Heller series by ex-CIA Operative Joseph Finder, a book that can be read as a standalone book and no need to worry about the series order. Joseph Finder is an original and expert storyteller who probably put the intelligence to the Central Agency.Nick Heller is an investigator with a skill set that is much appreciated by those who employ him, a skillset that has the mixture of Bond and Bourne but with a few more friends. The story telling is crisp and taut, and throughout the story moves at a pace that leaves you always wanting more. Nick Heller is a hero who you root for, always hoping for the best but always expecting the worst. Nick Heller has been asked to visit Washington DC insider and living legend, to meet at the offices of Shays Abbott Burnham, a massive law firm in its own right. When asked to take a job, to destroy a story that is about to be published online by SlanderSheet.com, a muck raking website with very shady owners. It is here that he is told that Gideon’s friend Chief Justice Jeremiah Claflin of the Supreme Court is about to become the target of scandal.He finds the person behind the story quite quickly and is able to discredit the story when it went live online. Making SlanderStreet.com and their journalist look like fools, but it is what happened in the aftermath that makes this so addictive. As secretive shadow organisations and lawyers who do work for them become involved in what looks like a clean-up as people try to hide what they have done.Guilty Minds is a well written, well thought out thriller that leaves you breathless and wanting more, Finder uses his expert knowledge to craft a highly original thriller. Guilty Minds is packed with suspense, great characters and a fantastic plot which has an amazing pace throughout and written with pure elegance. Joseph Finder is a wonderful storyteller who knows how to craft top notch suspense thrillers that readers love and will always return too.