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Banks, Iain
by The Business
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0743200144
- ISBN 13
- 9780743200141
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About This Item
New York. 2000. November 2000. Simon & Schuster . 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0743200144. 393 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Michael Accordino. keywords: Literature Scotland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Business is a nearly omnipotent and infinitely, discreet transglobal organization whose origins predate the Christian Church, if not the Roman Empire (which the Business actually owned for sixty-six days). Financially transparent, internally democratic, and morally dispassionate, the actual business of the Business seems - even to Kate Telman, a senior executive - to be vague to the point of invisibility. Counted among its vast riches are a book of Leonardo cartoons, dozens of Michelangelo's pornographic paintings, and several sets of Crown Jewels. All it lacks is a certain clout in politics, an arena that the Business has avoided for centuries but that has suddenly become of vital importance. No longer satisfied with its permanent base in Antarctica and its fortified Swiss headquarters, the Business is angling to buy its own nation in order to take a seat at the United Nations.' Kate is the perfect candidate to help the Business realize its most ambitious goal: She was plucked at age eight from a bleak urban slum and groomed for membership among the Businesses elite, and her personal and professional loyalties chart a single path. She has risen rapidly through the ranks, achieving a reputation as not only the firm's smartest and most beautiful employee but also its foremost expert on emerging technologies. While her loyalty never falters, as she travels the globe at the behest of her enigmatic employer she is forced to peel away layers of emotional insulation and to reassess the assumptions of a lifetime. To take control of her future, she must learn to do the Business. inventory #28351 ISBN: 0743200144.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28351
- Title
- Banks, Iain
- Author
- The Business
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0743200144
- ISBN 13
- 9780743200141
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1999
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