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Acquisition of Power

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Erika Barr has written a captivating book on the inner dirty
workings of large corporations and their mergers. However, even
a reader who is not interested in the dealings that go on in the
business world will be glued to this book. It puts heavy emphasis
on the description of the human characters, their thinking
patterns, their needs and their dreams. The story is logical and
there is plenty of suspense to keep the reader guessing. Greed is
good in this book!

The book is great. If you work in the Corporate world, you know these people! She has the skinny on mergers. I finished at 3:00 a.m.. I couldn't go to sleep without knowing what happened. Great work for a first book. Can't wait for the next one.

A throuroughly enjoyable read. I starting reading and couldn't put it down because I couldn't wait to see what happened to the bad guys (and girls). I hope there's a sequel.

Erika Barr has written a very entertaining book that was hard to put aside until the very end.

I finished reading this book a couple of nights ago. It was supposed to be my bedtime reading, but the last scoop had enough suspense to keep me up and sleepless till 6 am! I think this is an impressive feat for a first book, and i am quite impressed by the complexity of the plot and the ideas that the author came up with. I think it's a promising start!

Although my understanding is that the book was being written even before the corporate scandals of the last year came up in the open, one cannot help wondering how realistic (or how far-fetched) a scenario like that in the book might be in the "real" corporate world... Did the author just want to write a suspense fiction story or did she also try to make some statement about how some corporations are actually run? I, and i think many readers, would be quite curious to know...

Overall, well done!

This book has it all. Ms. Barr weaves a masterful tale of skuldugery in the boardrooms of two high tech companies as they battle each other. The dialog is snappy, the story is intricate and never dull and the characters grab you by the throat. Power,greed and lust. Not a bad description of current affairs. Ms. Barr's career in the business world has clearly given her many insights. May her author's pen be ever fruitful!

Erika Barr shows a lot of savvy about the world of hostile takeovers in this her first outing as an author. Acquisition of Power may herald the beginning of a brand new talent in the industry.

I recently travelled and some friends recommended this book. I found it to be an excellent companion during the long and tedious hours in airport lounges and on the planes. The book is engaging, intelligent, suspenseful, with a plethora of twists to satisfy my adventurous streak. In short this is a promising beginning by the author Erika Barr.