With Friends Like These [Hardcover]

Nicholas Coleridge (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 15, 1997

When a beautiful but treacherous investigative journalist is found murdered in her apartment, the long list of suspects leads inside the magazine industry, where the truth becomes just another commodity to be bought and sold."

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About the Author

Nicholas Coleridge is managing director of Conde Nast in Britain, the magazine house that publishes Vogue and House & Garden, among others. He lives in London with his wife and four children. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press (September 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312170661
• ISBN-13: 978-0312170660
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,162,539 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hugely entertaining, savvy thriller., March 4, 1998

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Pranay Gupte "www.pranaygupte.com" (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: With Friends Like These (Hardcover)

I thoroughly enjoyed Nicholas Coleridge's literate thriller. It's beautifully written, with rarely a slack section. Coleridge displays awesome insider's knowledge of the publishing and fashion industries, and his action scenes similarly reveal detailed familiarity with locales in Europe, New York and Hong Kong. No wonder. The author is a well-traveled writer whose previous books dealt with the fashion industry, and international publishing tycoons. "With Friends Like These" is an immensely enjoyable book, with enough action and romance, and suspense, to make it a page-turner.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars With Writers Like These ..., October 15, 1999

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This review is from: With Friends Like These (Hardcover)

... who needs books? A complete waste of a novel that stretches the credulity of even the lowliest reader (which I consider myself). Would you believe ... that you can see into the back seats of limos? that the cops would not check the answering machine? ... that the secretary just HAPPENS to be the goddaughter of a suspect? that the hero progressively falls more and more in love with the victim after her death (from afternoon rollerblading dates to "the love of my life)? There's more that left me shaking my head in disbelief, but it's integral for what passes for a a plot in this ego-driven mess. The name-dropping and product-dropping isn't even interesting, effective or even accurate. I only kept reading to see how bad it would get.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great read - Male Jackie Collins!, April 21, 2011

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This review is from: With Friends Like These (Paperback)

Nicholas Coleridge is ex editor and it shows, he knows how to spin a yard and his recipes usually include a delightful mix of sex, sin, class and believable characters. A great beach read, be entertained, not educated!