The Oligarch’s Daughter is a breakneck thriller that marries the dynastic opulence of Succession with the tense and disorienting spycraft of The Americans.
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About The Oligarch’s Daughter
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 U.S. 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 built for the frightening world we live in now.
Praise for The Oligarch’s Daughter
“Joseph Finder is one of the undisputed masters of the thriller genre, 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
“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….On display is Finder’s intricate and fascinating knowledge of spycraft, Russia, and intelligence. I highly, highly recommend [The Oligarch’s Daughter an] unrelenting thriller!”—Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author, with Lincoln Child, of the Pendergast novels
“Finder is back! Breakneck action, compelling guy-next-door protagonist and riveting modern day geopolitics equal a truly breathless Joe Finder thriller, let alone a dash of romance and one of the best wilderness action scenes ever. Come [to The Oligarch’s Daughter] for the twisty plot, stay for the compelling character!”—Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“The Firm on steroids—the kind of book the term page-turner was invented for.”—Linwood Barclay, #1 internationally bestselling author
“[The Oligarch’s Daughter] is Finder at his finest—a perfect everyman-in-peril story, first building an ominous drumbeat of menace, then exploding in action and intrigue and triumph. As good as it gets.”—Lee Child
“A pitch-perfect spy novel—flawless pacing, richly drawn characters, and a plot that never quits. These pages practically turn themselves.”—Karin Slaughter, New York Times and #1 international bestselling author
[The Oligarch’s Daughter is] “A tense and dizzying spy novel.”—Vicksburg Post
“This is an intense psychological thriller that starts off fast and never lets up. Author Joseph Finder has written one of the best thrillers of the year already.”—Red Carpet Crash
About Joseph Finder, Author of The Oligarch’s Daughter
Joseph Finder is the author of sixteen previous suspense novels, including House on Fire, The Fixer, and Suspicion. Two of his novels have been adapted into major motion pictures—Paranoia (starring Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman) and High Crimes (starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman). Four more 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.
You can connect with Joseph Finder on his website, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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Publisher: Harper Perennial | HarperCollins
ISBN Paperback 9780063396036
Pub Date: Jan 20, 2026
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