"Mills, Kyle - Smoke Screen" - читать интересную книгу автора (Mills Kyle)Smoke Screen By Kyle Mills
Preliminary rating: 4.8Q Thirty-two-year-old Trevor Barnett has inadvertently become the lead spokesman for the tobacco industry just as it's on the verge of extinction, facing a $200 billion lawsuit that it will be unable to appeal. America's tobacco companies react by doing the unthinkable -closing their plants and recalling their products. The message is clear: no more cigarettes until the industry is given iron-clad protection from the courts. As the economy falters and chaos takes hold, Trevor finds himself the target of enraged smokers, gun-toting smugglers, and a government that has been cut off from one of its largest sources of revenue. Soon it becomes apparent that this had always been his function to take the brunt of the backlash and shield the men in power from the maelstrom they'd created. As he is slowly abandoned by an industry that his own ancestors helped to create, Trevor begins to fight back. Kyle Mills continues to explore the controversial subjects that have won him legions of fans and accolades around the globe. Fascinating in concept, rich in characters, and broad in appeal, Smoke Screen has all the trademark flair of his previous novels and proves that he is one of Also by Kyle Mills Rising Phoenix Storming Heaven Free Fall Burn Factor Sphere of Influence KYLE MILLS Smoke Screen Hodder & Stoughton Copyright 2003 by Kyle Mills First published in the United States in 2003 by Penguin Putnam First published in Great" Britain in 2003 by Hodder & Stoughton A division of Hodder Headline |
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