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1. 1. Amazon User Reviews

   www.josephfinder.com/books/ama - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/13/2006   Last Visited: 4/28/2007

   The story focuses on a clever but bored junior corporate type, Adam Cassidy. Like many, he's got a ho-hum job and is motivated to do just the minimum to skate by.
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   Given a fake background attractive enough to entice any headhunter as well as a bag of high tech spy gizmos, Adam is soon snatched up by Trion. His espionage gets off to a good start, and he is able feed critical information to his handlers at Wyatt.
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   Young, brash, Adam Cassidy has a problem. Even though Adam's pretty low on the food chain at Wyatt Telecom, he impersonates an important executive in order to throw an extravagant retirement party for a loading dock employee named Jonesie. This was no ordinary retirement party, however. It came complete with a fancy-schmancy caterer, ice sculptures, Dom Perignon, and a Jamaican reggae band. When Wyatt's security cop finds the party in full swing at 1:30 in the morning, the gig is up. And so, it seems is Adam's life as a free man. Adam's broken enough laws to land him in prison for years.
   ...
   Wyatt orders Adam to steal the new technology for them in exchange for his freedom. Adam is given a crash course in how to behave like a corporate whiz kid and then he's turned loose in Trion to spy his way into project AURORA, Trion's treasure chest. While Adam undergoes some intense tutoring by Wyatt brass, once Trion hires him, he's on his own and must operate mostly by instinct. Wyatt wants AURORA and they want it yesterday. How Adam gets it, or what happens to him in the process is of no consequence to Nicholas Wyatt and his henchmen.
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   Far from a hero, perhaps even an anti-hero, Paranoia's Adam Cassidy is something the likes of which we patient readers have not seen in quite some time.
   ...
   Adam Cassidy makes a profound error in judgment at work at Wyatt Telecom which starts the ball rolling toward corporate espionage, treachery, and outright paranoia. When made a proposition he can't refuse by Wyatt Telecom's CEO, Adam feels he has no choice but to doctor his resume and apply as directed for a job at the competition, Trion Systems.
   ...
   Fast forward, and we find Adam firmly ensconced at Trion and wracking his brain to get the goods on AURORA, Trion's top secret project that Nick Wyatt would kill to get.
   ...
   Adam makes friends at Trion, including the company's eccentric founder and, of course, there's a girl, but NObody is who they seem to be as the ingenius plotting and supercharged level of suspense race toward the denouement.
   ...
   Adam Cassidy is used to getting paid for doing as little work as possible, but when he takes $78,000 from his employer Wyatt Telecom to throw a retirement party for a loading dock worker ... things change. When his boss finds out he is offered an altermadum, go to jail or get a job at Trion Systems (Wyatt Telecom's competition) and spy on them. Suddenly he is in over his head and doing more work than he's ever done in his life. This book was a great read because it had a different storyline than any I had ever read, making this novel both refreshing and captivating. Joseph Finder creates a character in Adam Cassidy that is believable and has you rooting for him the entire read.
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   Adam Cassidy is a young, underachieving employee of a high-tech company. He has an unusual sense of humor and one of his practical jokes gets him into big trouble with his bosses. Much to his surprise, he is called in, not to be fired, but to be asked to be an industrial spy at a competing company. Since he is not in a position to refuse, Adam accepts the assignment. He becomes interested in an attractive female employee and begins a delicate balancing act, doing the work of the new company while acting as a spy for his old one. He is coming very close to discovering the secrets that he has been sent for when circumstances threaten to expose him as a fraud.
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   Adam Cassidy is a likeable and exceptionally intelligent. yet somewhat aimless twenty-something, employed in a fairly insignificant management position in a high tech company. He could care less about the position, doesn't find himself challenged by his work, and isn't quite yet sure what he wants to be when he "grows up." Outside of work, Adam seems to spend his time partying and keeping tabs on his dying father who lives nearby. Despite his father's sickness, he's a mean old man who has a lot of bitterness about life. Adam seems to be his father's favorite scapegoat and visits to the house are usually pretty unpleasant. Employment for Adam is something one is expected to do at his age. As a result of his carefree attitude toward his job, Adam has few qualms about cutting corners whenever he can. He comes to work late, leaves early, surfs the net and does as little as he has to in order to stay employed. While hanging out and smoking with the guys on the company's loading dock, Adam befriends a dock worker who has served his entire life at the company and is about to retire. Adam, having little respect for the firm's upper echelon feels for the old man and for how little he has been recognized for all his efforts on behalf of the company. Adam hatches a comical and touching plan to recognize his friend from the loading dock upon his retirement. Without authorization, in fact, winging it, Adam diverts some executive funding to throw Jonesy a retirement party to rival the most extravagant executive blowouts. And, suitably, it is held on the company's loading dock where Jonesy has spent his life. The party is an amazing success and Jonesy is sent off in a style never before experienced by any hourly worker and never likely to be repeated again. Adam prepares for the trouble he will find himself in once his generosity to Jonesy on behalf of the company is found out. He had psychologically prepared himself to be fired for his generous prank -- perhaps he was even hoping for that. Instead, the company's CEO has an entirely different sort of payback for Adam, and it will change his life in ways he never imagined. Adam is sent on an espionage mission on behalf of his boss by being required to get hired by the company's chief rival and to report back on what they are working on. Once employed in his new job, Paranoia hits its stride. Adam struggles with being caught up in a double life and an unforgiving former boss who expects big results. So that this review doesn't give away the best aspects of the story, let's conclude with the image of Adam on the rollercoaster ride of his life - full of chills, and spills and holding your breath! Author, Joseph Finder has created an exciting and memorable story, even an ultimately very moral story, in the life of Adam Cassidy.
   ...
   Adam Cassidy is the "hero." He is an employee of Wyatt Telecom and decides, for whatever reason to pull a funny on the corporation and orders an unauthorized "retirement party" for a low level employee. Management is not amuzed. He is offered facing charges for the thousands of dollars his prank has cost and "going to jail for at least 20 years" or doing the bidding of the CEO. Duh! He is asked to become a corporate spy and go to work for Trion Systems, the arch competitor of Wyatt Telecom. If he says no - he is looking at 20 years for his little escpade - if yes - he life will never be the same again. Duh! At Trion his life takes off - he is a star - he is driving fast cars and living in the fast lane, in more ways than one. He is a star, but with a problem. He is a hoax and he knows it and some day his whole life is going to change.
   ...
   Adam Cassidy does as little as he can to get by ... and he gets away with it. That is, until now. He has just managed to give a retiring dock supervisor the bash of his life. No holds barred, no expense spared ... only the best for old man Jonesy. Nothing wrong with that, nothing, except that, without their knowledge, he used $87,000 of company money to pull it off., He is called into CEO Nick Wyatt's office at Wyatt Telecom ... and from this point on, Adam's life as he knew it,is gone forever. He is given a choice, which in reality is no choice at all.
   ...
   And yet ... so down-right entertaining as we meet Adam's very ill father ... his father's caretaker Antoine and Jock Goddard, Tryon's CEO, who is in the running for the real father Adam never had; we realize the meaning of human frailty.
   ...
   Adam Cassidy, a bored twenty-six year old employee o

2. 2. Amazon User Reviews

   www.paranoianovel.com/content/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/4/2006   Last Visited: 7/25/2007

   The story focuses on a clever but bored junior corporate type, Adam Cassidy. Like many, he's got a ho-hum job and is motivated to do just the minimum to skate by.
   ...
   Given a fake background attractive enough to entice any headhunter as well as a bag of high tech spy gizmos, Adam is soon snatched up by Trion. His espionage gets off to a good start, and he is able feed critical information to his handlers at Wyatt.
   ...
   Young, brash, Adam Cassidy has a problem. Even though Adam's pretty low on the food chain at Wyatt Telecom, he impersonates an important executive in order to throw an extravagant retirement party for a loading dock employee named Jonesie. This was no ordinary retirement party, however. It came complete with a fancy-schmancy caterer, ice sculptures, Dom Perignon, and a Jamaican reggae band. When Wyatt's security cop finds the party in full swing at 1:30 in the morning, the gig is up. And so, it seems is Adam's life as a free man. Adam's broken enough laws to land him in prison for years.
   ...
   Wyatt orders Adam to steal the new technology for them in exchange for his freedom. Adam is given a crash course in how to behave like a corporate whiz kid and then he's turned loose in Trion to spy his way into project AURORA, Trion's treasure chest. While Adam undergoes some intense tutoring by Wyatt brass, once Trion hires him, he's on his own and must operate mostly by instinct. Wyatt wants AURORA and they want it yesterday. How Adam gets it, or what happens to him in the process is of no consequence to Nicholas Wyatt and his henchmen.
   ...
   Far from a hero, perhaps even an anti-hero, Paranoia's Adam Cassidy is something the likes of which we patient readers have not seen in quite some time.
   ...
   Adam Cassidy makes a profound error in judgment at work at Wyatt Telecom which starts the ball rolling toward corporate espionage, treachery, and outright paranoia. When made a proposition he can't refuse by Wyatt Telecom's CEO, Adam feels he has no choice but to doctor his resume and apply as directed for a job at the competition, Trion Systems.
   ...
   Fast forward, and we find Adam firmly ensconced at Trion and wracking his brain to get the goods on AURORA, Trion's top secret project that Nick Wyatt would kill to get.
   ...
   Adam makes friends at Trion, including the company's eccentric founder and, of course, there's a girl, but NObody is who they seem to be as the ingenius plotting and supercharged level of suspense race toward the denouement.
   ...
   Adam Cassidy is used to getting paid for doing as little work as possible, but when he takes $78,000 from his employer Wyatt Telecom to throw a retirement party for a loading dock worker ... things change. When his boss finds out he is offered an altermadum, go to jail or get a job at Trion Systems (Wyatt Telecom's competition) and spy on them. Suddenly he is in over his head and doing more work than he's ever done in his life. This book was a great read because it had a different storyline than any I had ever read, making this novel both refreshing and captivating. Joseph Finder creates a character in Adam Cassidy that is believable and has you rooting for him the entire read.
   ...
   Adam Cassidy is a young, underachieving employee of a high-tech company. He has an unusual sense of humor and one of his practical jokes gets him into big trouble with his bosses. Much to his surprise, he is called in, not to be fired, but to be asked to be an industrial spy at a competing company. Since he is not in a position to refuse, Adam accepts the assignment. He becomes interested in an attractive female employee and begins a delicate balancing act, doing the work of the new company while acting as a spy for his old one. He is coming very close to discovering the secrets that he has been sent for when circumstances threaten to expose him as a fraud.
   ...
   Adam Cassidy is a likeable and exceptionally intelligent. yet somewhat aimless twenty-something, employed in a fairly insignificant management position in a high tech company. He could care less about the position, doesn't find himself challenged by his work, and isn't quite yet sure what he wants to be when he "grows up." Outside of work, Adam seems to spend his time partying and keeping tabs on his dying father who lives nearby. Despite his father's sickness, he's a mean old man who has a lot of bitterness about life. Adam seems to be his father's favorite scapegoat and visits to the house are usually pretty unpleasant. Employment for Adam is something one is expected to do at his age. As a result of his carefree attitude toward his job, Adam has few qualms about cutting corners whenever he can. He comes to work late, leaves early, surfs the net and does as little as he has to in order to stay employed. While hanging out and smoking with the guys on the company's loading dock, Adam befriends a dock worker who has served his entire life at the company and is about to retire. Adam, having little respect for the firm's upper echelon feels for the old man and for how little he has been recognized for all his efforts on behalf of the company. Adam hatches a comical and touching plan to recognize his friend from the loading dock upon his retirement. Without authorization, in fact, winging it, Adam diverts some executive funding to throw Jonesy a retirement party to rival the most extravagant executive blowouts. And, suitably, it is held on the company's loading dock where Jonesy has spent his life. The party is an amazing success and Jonesy is sent off in a style never before experienced by any hourly worker and never likely to be repeated again. Adam prepares for the trouble he will find himself in once his generosity to Jonesy on behalf of the company is found out. He had psychologically prepared himself to be fired for his generous prank -- perhaps he was even hoping for that. Instead, the company's CEO has an entirely different sort of payback for Adam, and it will change his life in ways he never imagined. Adam is sent on an espionage mission on behalf of his boss by being required to get hired by the company's chief rival and to report back on what they are working on. Once employed in his new job, Paranoia hits its stride. Adam struggles with being caught up in a double life and an unforgiving former boss who expects big results. So that this review doesn't give away the best aspects of the story, let's conclude with the image of Adam on the rollercoaster ride of his life - full of chills, and spills and holding your breath! Author, Joseph Finder has created an exciting and memorable story, even an ultimately very moral story, in the life of Adam Cassidy.
   ...
   Adam Cassidy is the "hero." He is an employee of Wyatt Telecom and decides, for whatever reason to pull a funny on the corporation and orders an unauthorized "retirement party" for a low level employee. Management is not amuzed. He is offered facing charges for the thousands of dollars his prank has cost and "going to jail for at least 20 years" or doing the bidding of the CEO. Duh! He is asked to become a corporate spy and go to work for Trion Systems, the arch competitor of Wyatt Telecom. If he says no - he is looking at 20 years for his little escpade - if yes - he life will never be the same again. Duh! At Trion his life takes off - he is a star - he is driving fast cars and living in the fast lane, in more ways than one. He is a star, but with a problem. He is a hoax and he knows it and some day his whole life is going to change.
   ...
   Adam Cassidy does as little as he can to get by ... and he gets away with it. That is, until now. He has just managed to give a retiring dock supervisor the bash of his life. No holds barred, no expense spared ... only the best for old man Jonesy. Nothing wrong with that, nothing, except that, without their knowledge, he used $87,000 of company money to pull it off., He is called into CEO Nick Wyatt's office at Wyatt Telecom ... and from this point on, Adam's life as he knew it,is gone forever. He is given a choice, which in reality is no choice at all.
   ...
   And yet ... so down-right entertaining as we meet Adam's very ill father ... his father's caretaker Antoine and Jock Goddard, Tryon's CEO, who is in the running for the real father Adam never had; we realize the meaning of human frailty.
   ...
   Adam Cassidy, a bored twenty-six year old employee of Wyatt Teleco

3. 3. Mondo's Info

   www.mondoinfo.com/blog - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/26/2003   Last Visited: 6/25/2004

   Adam Cassidy is a low-level marketing manager for Wyatt Telecoms. One day, as a sort of practical joke, he authorizes an expensive party that he shouldn't have been able to authorize. He's caught and given the choice of facing trumped-up criminal charges or going to work for the competition as a spy for Wyatt Telecoms. Naturally, he chooses to be a spy.