The Business - Couverture rigide

Banks, Iain

3,51

6�969 �valuations de Goodreads

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0316648442 ISBN 13 : 9780316648448

Editeur : Little, Brown & Company, 1999

Afficher les exemplaires de cette �dition ISBN

Physical description; 390 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; NOT price-clipped. First edition and first printing. Summary; Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to be vague to the point of invisibility. It possesses, allegedly, a book of Leonardo cartoons, several sets of Crown Jewels and wants to buy its own State in order to acquire a seat at the United Nations. Kate's job is to keep abreast of current technological developments and her global reach encompasses Silicon Valley, a ranch in Nebraska, the firm's secretive Swiss headquarters, and a remote Himalayan principality. In the course of her journey Kate must peel away layers of emotional insulation and the assumptions of a lifetime. She must learn to keep her world at arm's length. To take control, she has to do The Business. Subjects; International agencies - Fiction. Businesswomen - Fiction. Modern fiction. Fiction / General. Genre; Fiction.

Les informations fournies dans la section � Synopsis � peuvent faire r�f�rence � une autre �dition de ce titre.

Quatri�me de couverture :

Originalit�, humour corrosif, personnages excentriques, rythme tr�pidant : bienvenue dans l'univers d'Iain Banks. L'auteur anglais le plus inventif de sa g�n�ration nous livre ici une com�die foisonnante, � la fois roman � suspense, roman d'aventures et satire irr�sistible du grand capitalisme.

La finance internationale, un monde d'hommes ? Pas pour Kate Telman... Experte en nouvelles technologies, elle sillonne le monde pour le compte d'une firme semi-occulte : le Business, o�, � trente-huit ans, elle brigue le sommet de la hi�rarchie. Sexy, d'une intelligence exacerb�e, dot�e d'un sens de l'humour incisif, Kate ferait une ambassadrice parfaite. Or le Business, qui a pour ambition de s'approprier un pays afin d'obtenir un si�ge � l'ONU, entame des n�gociations avec un petit Etat de l'Himalaya, le Thulahn. Heureuse co�ncidence, Date semble �tre au go�t du ma�tre des lieux, le prince Suvinder... Mais, tr�s vite, des pressions s'exercent de toute part. Si on voulait l'emp�cher de mettre au jour un complot interne au plus haut niveau, on n'agirait pas autrement! Kate n'est pas femme � se laisser impressionner aussi facilement, mais pourra-t-elle �viter les pi�ges d'un monde d'argent et de privil�ges ?

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Who Do You Work For?
The Business, a nearly omnipotent enterprise, is so infinitely discreet that even its top executives are vague about its actual business. It predates the Christian church and counts among its vast riches dozens of Michelangelo's pornographic paintings and several sets of Crown jewels. The only thing it lacks is political clout, a problem the Business plans to solve by buying a nation and joining the United Nations. Kate Telman, the Business's foremost expert on emerging technologies, is chosen to lead the effort. As this beautiful, ambitious American woman pursues the ultimate prize for her highly secretive transglobal employer, Iain Banks -- whom The Times of London calls "the most imaginative British novelist of his generation" -- offers a portrait of today's ubiquitous multinational corporations. Already a bestseller in England, The Business paints a picture that is at once wickedly satirical and frighteningly familiar.

Les informations fournies dans la section � A propos du livre � peuvent faire r�f�rence � une autre �dition de ce titre.