When a Japanese extremist group plots to throw the U.S. economy into chaos, a group of young American corporate lawyers is all that stands between them and the next depression. By the author of Control. 40,000 first printing.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
A sneak attack on the American economy by a consortium of extreme nationalist Japanese industrialists is the focus of Anderson's ( Zero Time) tale of a financial Pearl Harbor. A tip--on CIA letterhead--prompts California's new Senator Elinor Woods to question the White House about the "O Fund." When both the White House and Senate colleagues turn defensive, her aide, David Perez, starts to probe. Meanwhile, back in L.A., Alison Carey begins her own investigation into suspicious goings-on in the law firm where she is a summer associate. Suddenly her apartment is burgled, her sister's house on Guam is searched, and her lawyer/boyfriend, Kevin Daulton, is fired for digging in files. When Perez is killed and his O Fund notes stolen, Kevin's dad enlists Raymond Farrow, a rich friend with the President's ear. Farrow and the Senator team up to work the Hill while the California kids continue to sleuth on the coast. The pairs converge on the scion of Miyaki Industries just as the market is poised to crash. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anderson credibly develops the economic threat, greedy lawyers and political conniving central to his story, but the improbable success of the youngsters in the crooked law firm is too contrived. On the other hand, the Japanese extremists' plot is constructed without Japan-bashing--no mean feat.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Since the end of the Cold War, thriller writers have had to scramble to find villains able to throw the world into chaos. Anderson has reached back into the past and uncovered a powerful group of Japanese extremists who plan to avenge Japan's loss of World War II by manipulating the U.S. economy into an irreversible tailspin. Along with the wily Japanese, the bad guys include crooked politicians, cutthroat businessmen, and treacherous lawyers. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Anderson provides genuine insider knowledge of the workings of Washington and an all-too-plausible plot for the economically fragile 1990s, making this a strikingly realistic page-turner. The paucity of sex and violence will be welcomed by librarians wishing to offer their more fastidious patrons an exciting novel to read. Recommended for all libraries. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 3/1/93.
- Dan Bogey, Clearfield Cty. P.L. Federation, Curwensville, Pa.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Dan Bogey, Clearfield Cty. P.L. Federation, Curwensville, Pa.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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