House on Fire--A Novel
โ Scribed by Joseph Finder
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Random House Large Print
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 200 KB
- Edition
- Large Print Edition
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
In New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder's new thriller, private investigator Nick Heller is hired to infiltrate a powerful family whose wealth and reputation hide something far more sinister.
Nick Heller, private spy, exposes secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden.
At the funeral of his good friend Sean, an army buddy who once saved Nick's life and had struggled with opioid addiction since returning wounded from war, a stranger approaches Nick with a job. The woman is a member of the Rhodes family, whose immense fortune was built on opiates. Now she wants to become a whistleblower, exposing evidence that Rhodes Pharmaceutical knew its biggest money-maker drug, Oxydone, was dangerously addictive and led directly to the overdoses and deaths of people like Sean.
Nick agrees instantly, eager to avenge Sean's death, but he quickly finds himself entangled in the complicated family dynamics of the Rhodes dynasty. The other Rhodes...
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