Subversion
Language: English
Published by Broadway Books, New York, 2001
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Lyon's Den Mystery Books & More, Rock Hill, SC, U.S.A.Lyon's Den Mystery Books & More
AbeBooks seller since February 16, 2010
Condition: Used - Fine
£ 5.74
Quantity: 1 available
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The author's first novel. This book was recalled by the publisher less than two weeks before its publication date. Reviewers and book stores that had already received copies were instructed to return them immediately. It is rumored that the book is a roman a clef with the lead character based on an Alderson acquaintance and easily identitied. Book reporter Dennis Loy Johnson, puzzled as to why a publisher would recall a work of fiction, especially a hardcover with the costs involved in its production, asked the Broadway Books publicist, who sent him a letter requestsing that he return his copy, about it said "no comment." Johnson then tracked down the author and asked him about it; his answer was "no comment." Johnson finally called the head of corporate affairs at Random House, Broadway's parent company, to ask him about it and received the same answer -- "no comment." Broadway Books invested a fair chunk of change in the production of this title, but they were willing to throw it all away and apparently consign to pulp all the copies they could get their hands on, this copy not being one of them. (This information provided by Augustine Funnell Books of Fredericton, NB, Canada, on their ABE site where this book was offered for sale.) Dust jacket protected in clear mylar wrapper; bubble wrapped, boxed, and shipped with Delivery Confirmation.…
Seller Inventory # 000125
- Title
- Subversion
- Author
- Alderson, T. A
- Publisher
- Broadway Books, New York
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0767906578
- ISBN 13
- 9780767906579
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Mystery
But she has a softer side too, as evidenced by her weight-loss program, get-organized program, tobacco-reduction program, and record-breaking one year with the same lover, Marshall, a country gentleman twenty years her senior, a partner in the firm, and her boss. When Marshall is murdered just after Rosalind discovers $3.7 million missing from a company account, she discovers a scandal of corruption that will bring the old boys’ network to its knees. Enter a protective old flame from her hometown who has eye-opening information about her missing father’s past, and Rosalind is forced to reevaluate her life at the same time she is called upon to protect it.
Edgy and fast-paced, with dead-on dialogue, Subversion yields a fabulous new spin on sex and work and the single woman. With a blunt, sassy cast of characters you’ll never forget, this is a riveting debut you won’t be able to put down.
“I always hated that word, ‘boyfriend,’ and I never used to use it. Now, it seems I have to say it, if only to limit the come-ons I have to fend off in the course of a day. But that morning, I had a boyfriend. Even if I couldn’t tell anyone about him. I had a rich boyfriend, a good job, a decent apartment, and the pleasant delusion that I knew the score. I guess I should have stayed in bed.”
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Lyon's Den Mystery Books & More
Rock Hill, SC, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since February 16, 2010
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The Lyon's Den Mystery Books and More specializes in modern first edition mystery novels, many of them signed/inscribed by the author. In addition, we have many carefully selected non-fiction titles in a variety of fields.
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