Whether you are putting together a perfect business deal or
concocting the chemical compounds to make pharmaceuticals; it takes just the
right balance to get the results you are looking for. Both the art of the deal
and the art of chemistry can have a poison pill in the mix and author Glenn Kaplan
follows up his 2007 novel Evil Inc.
with another dose of business based suspense with Poison Pill.
Kaplan clearly understands the wheeling and dealing side of
business having not only penned a non-fiction first book The Big Time which was based on some 350 interviews with business
executives, but also prowled the corridors of Fortune 500 power as an
advertising executive.
He utilizes that knowledge and proximity to movers and
shakers to capture the machinations of those high pressure, high powered types
in Poison Pill. The suspense gets ratcheted
up a notch or two when the not so straight dealing Russian mobster, who has his
own set of deals in mind, get involved with a hostile takeover artist who’s not
all that he appears to be.
Kaplan creates an interesting mix of storylines
that intersect nicely to keep the book on pace; deftly thwarting the chance
that the complex web of stories might slide of the rails. He also manages to
drop enough hints along the way to keep the reader guessing, but also driving
the story in the process.
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