Power Play
A Suspense, Fiction, Thriller book. Never had the pleasure. Every fall the female elk releases this musk in her urine, see. Tells...
It was the perfect retreat for a troubled company. No cell phones. No BlackBerrys. No cars. Just a luxurious, remote lodge surrounded by thousands of miles of wilderness. All the top officers of the Hammond Aerospace Corporation are there. And one last-minute substitute -- a junior executive named Jake Landry. He's a steady, modest, and taciturn guy with a gift for keeping his...
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- Pages: 384 pages
- ISBN: 9780312347482 / 312347480
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Or the corporate world. No. Thats where youre wrong. The stern lecturers finger again. My point. Doesnt work like that with humans anymore. Used to be, a human who was too slow would get eaten by a sabertoothed tiger. Natural selection, right? Didnt the saber-toothed tiger go extinct? A darting look of irritation. These days, everythings upside down. Women dont mate with the better hunter anymore. They marry the rich guys. Maybe the rich guys are the better hunters now. He scowled, but I had a sense that he Joseph Finder, Power Play // instant-message-sending, mouse-clicking, iPod-listening, web-surfing pussies, and God didnt mean for the likes of them to run this planet on the backs of real men. Joseph Finder, Power Play // Kit Carson, fighting the Indians with knives and six-shooters. Brave men. But thats all gone now. Now, some pencil-neck geek sitting at a computer can launch a thousand missiles and kill a million people. The worlds run by a bunch of fat-ass wimps who only know how to double-click their way to power. Think they should get a Purple Heart for a paper cut. I like that. Their idea of power is PowerPoint. They got headsets on their heads and their fingers on keyboards and they think theyre macho men when theyre just half wimp and half machine. Nothing more...
J'ai reu ce livre pour la slection du prix des lecteurs 2010 du Livre de poche de mai... un chronique un peu tardive.Rsume : Enlvement de milliardaires, dtournements d'avion... les preneurs d'otages professionnels ne manquent pas d'audace. Mais s'emparer des dirigeants d'une grande entreprise, runis le temps d'un sminaire dans un lieu... This is a fun, engaging novel "starring" a low- to mid-level corporate employee who gets caught up in corporate intrigue and an "offsite" gone wrong. I'm not going to say more for fear of spoiling the plot. I very much enjoyed the book; I found the primary characters engaging (and almost every one of the secondary characters had a key... Power Play is oine of those decent thriller that never rises to the level of true greatness, but offers an interesting premise, a moving plot, and clever plot twists. The premise is interesting. A group of executives on a retreat in a remote wilderness area are held hostage-- sort of like DIE HARD without the big building and the cops...
