An ingeniously plotted story of nerve-jangling intrigue and hot-wired suspense. Using today's cutthroat global economy as a backdrop, The First Billion explodes into a breakneck tale of betrayal, revenge, and redemption ... John "Jett" Gavallan is a former fighter pilot, now the high-flying CEO of Black Jet Securities, an investment firm that earned its first billion before the techno dream crashed and burned. Poised for an offering crucial to his company's survival, Gavallan is banking on the riskiest gamble of his dazzling career. In exactly six days, he will take Mercury Broadband, Russia's leading media company, public on the New York Stock Exchange. But rumors of fraud have suddenly surfaced that could send the deal south. Gavallan makes a preemptive strike by dispatching his number-two man--fellow Desert Storm fighter pilot Grafton Byrnes--to Moscow to penetrate the shadowy Russian multinational. When Byrnes fails to return, Gavallan fears the worst. But the truth is even more diabolical than he can imagine. Plunging into a desperate search for his best friend, the renegade top gun is suddenly fighting a different kind of war, where there is no safe harbor and no one he can trust. Not Konstantin Kirov, the elusive head of Mercury Broadband who may not be what he seems. Not the bankers and traders Gavallan does business with every day. Not the exotic beauty who has told him all her deepest secrets--except one. Suddenly Jett finds himself trapped in a conspiracy that could shatter the delicate balance between nations--and plunge the global economy into chaos. Hunted by the F.B.I. and a band of elite killers, Jett races from Palm Beach to Zurich to Moscow in a desperate search for answers. But for this brave ex-commando haunted by visions of war, the truth comes at a terrible price. With Mercury rising and the hours ticking down, he is moving closer to a place where murder and revenge are the currency of choice ... and where the first billion is the ultimate insider secret--and the deadliest obsession of all.
یادداشتهای مربوط به سفارشات
منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک
OverDrive, Inc.
منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک
OverDrive, Inc.
شماره انبار
10AE153D-99C4-417A-9204-D5D18F304344
ویراست دیگر از اثر در قالب دیگر رسانه
شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي
9780385333672
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Americans-- Russia (Federation), Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
Chief executive officers, Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
Conspiracies, Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
Investments, Foreign, Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
Missing persons, Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
Americans.
موضوع مستند نشده
Chief executive officers.
موضوع مستند نشده
Conspiracies.
موضوع مستند نشده
FICTION-- General.
موضوع مستند نشده
Investments, Foreign.
موضوع مستند نشده
Missing persons.
نام جغرافیایی به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
Russia (Federation), Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
Russia (Federation)
بدون عنوان
0
بدون عنوان
7
مقوله موضوعی
موضوع مستند نشده
FIC-- 000000
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
813/
.
54
ويراست
22
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
PS3568
.
E476284
نشانه اثر
F57
2002eb
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )