The Business
by Banks, Iain
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, black boards, white spine titling and decoration, black/red impressed design on black ffep, te
- ISBN 10
- 0316648442
- ISBN 13
- 9780316648448
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Little, Brown & Co, 1999. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, black boards, white spine titling and decoration, black/red impressed design on black ffep, text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to be vague to the point of invisibility. It possesses, allegedly, a book of Leonardo cartoons, several sets of Crown Jewels and wants to buy its own State in order to acquire a seat at the United Nations. Kate's job is to keep abreast of current technological developments and her global reach encompasses Silicon Valley, a ranch in Nebraska, the firm's secretive Swiss headquarters, and a remote Himalayan principality. In the course of her journey Kate must peel away layers of emotional insulation and the assumptions of a lifetime. She must learn to keep her world at arm's length. To take control, she has to do The Business.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC131913
- Title
- The Business
- Author
- Banks, Iain
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, black boards, white spine titling and decoration, black/red impressed design on black ffep, te
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316648442
- ISBN 13
- 9780316648448
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Pages
- 393
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, Banks
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.81 g
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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