Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349139227 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349139229 |
| Author: | Iain Banks |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 10 June 2013 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 141mm x 27mm |
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A poisoned bonbon, a bitter fairy tale… Written with enormous energy, crunchy wit and more curves than an alpine road * Independent *A highly inventive piece of work, amusing and sinister by turns… crammed with arresting conceits and surprises… any chapter of The Business, picked at random, will give an idea of Iain Bank’s merits: the technical pizzazz, the profound compassion, above all an understanding of the way the world works ripe to confound the average English novelist who thinks that ‘science’ is simply a noisy irrelevance * Guardian *It is impressive to find a British writer with such evident range… intellectually exhilarating * Observer *Imagination, wit and complexity are Banks’ hallmarks and The Business is no exception * The Times *Eng. Lit. for the age of www * Independent on Sunday *
About The Author
Iain Banks
Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels.
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