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...typical Finder novel (he has published seven so far, with 4.5 million books in print) reflects three or four months spent deep inside a corporate culture. Like an anthropologist, Finder gets to know the natives, interviewing CEOs as well as the rank and file. For Paranoia, he lived among the brilliant rebels of Apple and spent a week at engineering powerhouse Cisco. Why do these folks open up? Simple. "People like to talk about what they do for a living," says Finder. That candor gives the novels an authenticity critics applaud...
...fast-paced new book, Killer Instinct (St. Martin's; 406 pages), Finder spent months interviewing staff members at technology giant NEC and other plasma-TV makers. The novel's hero, Jason Steadman, 30, is a sales exec at Entronics, a fictional Japanese-owned corporation. Although Steadman is a devotee of military-style business books, he's no warrior on the corporate battlefield--until he meets Kurt Semko, a former special-forces officer who did a stint in Iraq. "He's everything Gordy [his boss] and all these other phony tough guys pretend to be," Steadman thinks. "Sitting in their Aeron...
...their best, Finder's books are pure wish fulfillment. Like a romance novel promising true love, Killer Instinct moves you deliciously close to the corner office. That's a locale that has allure for Finder. "From time to time, I'll interview a CEO or a CFO or someone at the top of an organization, and I'll think, You know something? I could do this," he says. And why not? He's already written the script...
...This is a fantasy realm so fully and elegantly realized, it might be the adaptation of a classic novel. Yet the source is Del Toro's own capacious imagination. The inverted logic of a child's dreams rarely has had such a secure equilibrium. And it is brilliantly visualized by Guillermo Navarro's cinematography, a severe symphony of dark shades in the house, more dramatic color contrasts in the labyrinth...
...Linklater, though, can be credited with two achievements. For one thing, he has made the first close adaptation of a Dick novel (Blade Runner had many epiphanies, but it bore only a superficial resemblance to the author's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep). For another, he has underlined the similarities of two decades marked by governmental snooping into its citizens' business and brains: the 70s, when the Nixon White House amassed a long Enemies List and used the FBI and its own resources to get dirt on suspected troublemakers, and our own, when anyone's telephone chats and email...