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As a brief, euphoric oil boom plummets in a traumatic crash, everything changes for John Biondi, PR manager at American Sidetrack Incorporated. No more flights on the Lear jet. No more fat bonuses. The boss, Dave King, is even more paranoid than usual. The honeymoon is over when John's wife Gennie gives birth to their first child and his travel schedule sends him to Lafayette, Amsterdam, Muscat and Bangkok. And both excitement and trouble arrive when the charismatic Bob Stanton re-joins the company as its blowout expert. When a takeover threat looms, Dave King can think of nothing else. So when Bob Stanton is kidnapped while fighting a spectacular offshore fire, John gets the assignment of finding the terrorists and negotiating for Bobby's release. Spiced with beautiful women, tough men, tall tales and suspense, BLIND SIDETRACK is an entertaining, satire adventure. .
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With this collection of short and fascinating biographical pieces, the award-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley offers a fascinating glimpse into the mysterious art of biography.

When researching, Richard Holmes has often become captivated by figures peripheral to his main subject, literary forays that he couldn’t resist. These tales–the forbidden love of John Stuart Mill, the bizarre novel of Oscar Wilde’s tragic grand-uncle, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s nightmarish yet cathartic final trip to Paris–are part of what comprises Sidetracks, a marvelously original that includes letters and travelogues, radio plays, essays, and minature biographies. This book is a rare literary feast and an exploration of the creative processes of one of our most preeminent biographers..
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This digital document is an article from Business North Carolina, published by Business North Carolina on January 1, 1993. The length of the article is 495 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The freight strain sidetracks Carolina. (decline in stock prices of Carolina Freight Carriers Corp.)
Publication:Business North Carolina (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1993
Publisher: Business North Carolina
Volume: v13 Issue: n1 Page: p9(1)

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