Was he too cock-sure? Maybe.Ĭause most of us start out that way, but not insecure me. And he fell - for a while.īut Archer's a Me-Genner and he fought back. None of us is a saint, but if you're into politics in a big way (like Archer) the media hounds will do their doggoned best to take you down. Jeffrey Archer has known plenty of hard knocks in his life. Ours was only a parcel of peace in the midst of the maelstrom.īut my own young hormones were raging - and my devils owned my back, nattering down at me - so of COURSE I read trash like this on my lunch hour. Leave that to our Union bosses - and they were rife in that place.
Was Resistance, Rebellion and Death our motto? No. The fungus was amongus! I went in for bible readings like a drowning sailor. The incredibly high-voltage stress of that hole out of hell was breeding Christian converts as quickly as old Milton could turn out grabby cookie-cutter Power Mushrooms. You know, there was a silver lining - as there always is. And every new mail delivery from the female droids of our in-house data centre would herald a vast torrent of illegible cards - stacked imperiously in any available corner of our file-heavy desks. The data tapes would feed the mainframe and spit out gobbledygook onto punch cards.
I didn't fit into their mold (ouch, very punny).Īnd this confused little me was now at the mercy of relentlessly whirling data tapes at our workplace computer centre. Then you should read this novel :)Īh, those Milton Friedman eighties, replete in a very wet summer with a bumper crop of towering fungi - the grabbers, takers and brutal levellers of the Me Generation.Īnd meanwhile, my own Me was just simply lost and bemused. Have you ever wanted to get even? I mean really even. I particularly liked the scene during the wedding at the end of the book, it was highly intense and super hilarious. It covers the whole spectrum of no integrity, but how strangers can become friend if fighting for the same cause. The story is so descriptive, informative, greatly entertaining and hilarious at times. With revenge that can be described as "playful" rather than mean-spirited, the book has a light-hearted tone that will leave readers upbeat. The ultimate revenge novel! When four men lose their life savings to a wealthy Boston swindler in a stock market scam, how will they get their money back? That's the plot of this highly entertaining novel that can best be summed up as, don't get mad, get even! Their goal is to recoup exactly the $1 million they collectively lost, hence the title of the book. And what a great book it is! I have read it during my teenage years and decided to re-read again.
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