Wing Walking [Hardcover]

Harry Groome (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2007

Wing Walking is a true business story, not a story about balance sheets or high finance, but one that opens the door to the boardroom and provides a look at the well-hidden personal motives that shape executive decisions at the highest levels. Egos and ambition, power and betrayal, love and longing weave together an engaging cast of characters in a tale that starts with the FDA recalling a blockbuster drug. With billions of dollars at stake, what follows is at times tragic, at times hopeful.

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About the Author

Harry Groome began writing as a stringer for the New York Herald Tribune while in high school. After a business career of almost forty years during which he retired as Chairman of SmithKline Beecham Consumer HealthCare and served on corporate boards both in the United States and the United Kingdom, Harry returned to writing. His short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and have received several awards.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 203 pages
• Publisher: The Connelly Press (November 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979741505
• ISBN-13: 978-0979741500
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,723,438 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Following the old axiom "write what you know," Harry Groome writes about what he knows and loves. His debut novel WING WALKING is based on forty years of experience in the corporate world, causing North Country Public Radio to say, "Harry Groome does for business what John Grisham does for the law." He also writes about the natural world, a fishing story of his being nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and growing up on the fringes of Philadelphia society. He shares his time bewteen the outskirts of Philadelphia and the Adirondack mountains with his wife, Lyn, and his three Labradors.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All you have to lose is sleep, November 30, 2007

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Novel reader "Tobey Dichter" (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wing Walking (Hardcover)

Get this book now! It's terrific! All you have to lose is a good night's sleep - I couldn't put it down.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A terrific read...a real page turner! By An Avid Reader, December 7, 2007

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E.C. Kapeghian "Avid reader" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wing Walking (Hardcover)

In Wing Walking, Harry Groome created a cast of characters that orchestrates a very sophisticated "whodunit" without the mayhem and murder. He has served up a dose of corporate intrigue in a well-woven, page turner of a tale, a terrific read that prompts one to hope for an encore soon.

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4.0 out of 5 stars "Sensitive, sexy, satisfying!", July 27, 2008

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Brian Dillon "fiction writer" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wing Walking (Hardcover)

I'm familiar with Harry Groome's well written short stories as a sportsman. But here he leaves smaller fish to go after sharks! And to powerful effect! This novel lays bare the bones of ambition in the pharmaceutical industry, a world Groome spent his whole working life in. The novel is sexy, sensitive, satisfying. With a compelling cast of men and women of character, and some with little of it. Fiction? Maybe yes, maybe no. But it is a lively tale that will grab you and make you want to ponder the situation more. A whole lot to get out of a book. - Brian Dillon, former Group Creative Director, Young & Rubicam.