The Oligarch's Daughter: A Novel

Joseph Finder

Jan 2025 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

"Joseph Finder has written some of the finest spy novels of our time, and he just keeps getting better. The Oligarch’s Daughter, his latest, rockets the reader into the terrifying story of Paul Brightman, who innocently falls in love with a Russian oligarch’s daughter and finds his life brutally overturned—forced to live under a false name, pursued by Russian killers, and forced to confront a malevolent conspiracy within the US government itself. On display is Finder’s intricate and fascinating knowledge of spycraft, Russia, and intelligence. I highly, highly recommend this unrelenting thriller!"—Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author, with Lincoln Child, of the Pendergast novels

“Joseph Finder has been one of the undisputed masters of the thriller genre for decades, and The Oligarch's Daughter is among his very best! It's a taut, emotional, and intelligent novel told at a breakneck pace that will keep readers fanning the pages till the end.”—Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Chaos Agent, a Gray Man Novel

From the New York Times bestselling author of House on Fire, a breakneck thriller that marries the dynastic opulence of Succession with the tense and disorienting spy craft of The Americans.

Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his security is breached, Paul is forced to flee into the New Hampshire wilderness to evade Russian operatives who can seemingly predict his every move.

Six years ago, Paul was a rising star on Wall Street who fell in love with a beautiful photographer named Tatyana—unaware that her father was a Russian oligarch and the object of considerable interest from several US intelligence agencies. Now, to save his own life, Paul must unravel a decades-old conspiracy that extends to the highest reaches of the government.

Rivaling the classic spy novels of the Cold War, The Oligarch’s Daughter is a breakneck thriller built for the frightening world we live in now.

About the author

Joseph Finder is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen suspense novels, including House on Fire, The Fixer, and Suspicion. Two of his novels have been adapted as major motion pictures—Paranoia (starring Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman), and High Crimes (starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman). Four others have won the industry’s top Best Novel Awards—Killer Instinct (the International Thriller Writers Award); Buried Secrets (the Strand Critics Award); Guilty Minds (the Barry Award) and Company Man (the Barry Award). Finder lives in Boston, Massachusetts.