Killer Instinct (novel)

Killer Instinct is a thriller novel written by Joseph Finder published in May 2006 by Orion Publishing Group. It debuted at #13 on the New York Times bestseller list[1] with competition from The Da Vinci Code and won the International Thriller Writers Award for best novel in 2007.

Killer Instinct
First edition (US)
AuthorJoseph Finder
GenreThriller Novel
PublisherSt. Martin's Press (US)
Orion (UK)
Publication date
May 2006

Plot

Jason Steadman is a thirty-year-old salesman, modest and industrious, who loves his wife Kate very much and wants to succeed in his work. But, as his boss makes clear to him, Steadman lacks "Killer Instinct" - the limitless ambition that will allow him to climb the ranks. Everything changes when Steadman meets Kurt Semko, a special forces combat soldier who has just returned from the Iraq war. From that moment, Steadman's luck improves remarkably, while his opponents encounter a strange succession of serious mishaps. Steadman's career is picking up, but the price he pays is very expensive. As a double-edged sword, Semko's fighting tactics turn to him and turn his life into hell.

gollark: There's a config option to disable the reactor explosion, but apparently someone messed it up.
gollark: Here's a picture I found in my eternal screenshot library™, actually.
gollark: I had accidentally planned for this by having a small self-sufficient base in the End with teleporters and stuff, and a spatial IO system so that in an emergency I could just hit a button to save most of my stored resources.
gollark: There were backups, of course, but it was quite funny.
gollark: One time someone on a server I was on accidentally blew up all of spawn with one due to a technical error in the computers controlling the reactor.

References
  1. "Best sellers list". New York Times. June 11, 2006. Retrieved September 5, 2011.


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