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Airport
From traffic control to customs hall, from the airport manager's office to lay-over apartments in "Stewardesses' Row", an ordinary airport is filled with men and women whose private pressures and passions match the fury of the blizzard that sweeps across the runways outside. A blocked runway, a suicide, picketing, an aerial stowaway, pregnancy, smuggling, mass demonstrations and a psychotic with a home-made bomb turn the lives of all those in the airport upside down, as they unknowingly wait for a shocking climax.
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Overload
From Airport to Hotel and from In High Places to Wheels, Arthur Hailey's incisive thrillers, set at the heart of the great institutions of the modern world, are unmatched for authenticity, power and human drama. In Overload we enter the high-tech, high-tension environment of the power industry. Nim Goldman is Vice President of Golden State Power & Light, the giant corporation supplying electricity to the power hungry state of California. He's a man with a big job and all the women he can handle, but he knows the crunch is coming. Soon, very soon, power famine will strike the most advanced society the world has ever known… '3,200,000 kilowatts, OPEC terrorists, power thieves, dwindling energy reserves, hypocrisy and paralysis in high places, darkness and chaos for power-guzzling California…Hailey hits with another blockbuster' Observer.
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Changers
It was on Tuesday that old Ben Rosekki,president of First Mercantile American Bank and grandson of the bank's founder, made an announcement - startling and sombre - which reverberated through every segment of the bank and far beyond.And the next day,Wednesday, the bank's "flagship" downtown branch discovered the presence of a thief - beginning a series of events which few could have foreseen,and ending in financial wreckage, human tragedy and death.' The genius of a master story-teller combines Money,People and Banking into a tense,totally absorbing story of the financial and personal crises behind the dignified bronze doors of a major bank. Interwoven with the dreams,passions,rivalries and guilty secrets of its employees are currency and credit card frauds, embezzlement, a prison gang-rape,Mafia torture,and the call-girl sex that sweetens irregular business deals. The Moneychangers blends action,suspense,mystery and torrid love scenes in a powerfully entertaining novel that is as topical as tomorro's headlines.
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In High Places
In High Places focuses as never before on the world of politics,taking us into the very core of any nation's power,its government.In this,one of his greatest achievements,he exposes the passions that seethe behind the blank facades of government offices as politicians in power fight to stay there - batering, back-stabbing,browbeating,bribing with honours,money and women. In Ottawa,Vancouver and Washington three apparently unconnected events bring startling consequences for the head of a great government - a man whose destiny hangs on a scrap of paper...
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Wheels
From the grime and crime of a etroit assembly line, through top-secret design studios to executive boardrooms and bedrooms…here is the heart of the motor metropolis, its men and women, their lives, ambitions, treacheries,successes,disasters and loves…
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Hotel
Through the suites and foyers of the St Gregory Hotel in New Orleans move a host of vividly drawn characters - the hotel industry tycoons, the guests, the staff, men and women, young and old, the totally dedicated, the utterly amoral. There is robbery and blackmail, a near-disastrous orgy, a take-over battle, and a love story that you will never forget…
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Strong Medicine
Strong Medicine is the story of Celia Jordan - a modern-day heroine like no other - and her relationship with the people who work alongside her - and against her; of the cultured and wise Sam Hawthorne, the chief executive who never loses faith in her, but tragically loses faith in virtually everything else; of the brilliant young British researcher, Martin Peat-Smith, who races against time to give Celia the breakthrough the company desperately needs; of Vincent Lord, the disappointed scientist who is her bitter rival; of Dennis Donohue, the unscrupulous senator who vows to destroy her. And espeially of the gentle and steadfast doctor who is her equal and her partner in every way.