Just three days before the election, on November 2nd, Franklin Foer published an essay in The Atlantic espousing the dangers of a Trump Oligarchy. Over that weekend, after Trump won the presidency, we saw a Trump family photo which included Elon Musk, and 60 Minutes ran a piece on Russian defector Maxim Kuzminov who was murdered in Spain. And of course, Putin congratulated the new president elect. Since then, the word “oligarch” has been on the tip of everyone’s tongues. It’s not surprising that fiction can play into this. Bestselling novelist Joseph Finder has always had his finger on the pulse of the news, and his new spy thriller THE OLIGARCH’S DAUGHTER is eerily timely. Set against the years before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and deeply informed by Joe’s expertise in Russia, this propulsive novel is a breakneck thriller about a young hedge funder who falls for an attractive woman he meets at a party who turns out to be the daughter of a Russian oligarch. 


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