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The Business

By Iain Banks

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Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to be vague to the point of inviContinue

Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to be vague to the point of invisibility. It possesses, allegedly, a book of Leonardo cartoons, several sets of Crown Jewels and wants to buy its own State in order to acquire a seat at the United Nations.

Kate's job is to keep abreast of current technological developments and her global reach encompasses Silicon Valley, a ranch in Nebraska, the firm's secretive Swiss headquarters, and a remote Himalayan principality. In the course of her journey Kate must peel away layers of emotional insulation and the assumptions of a lifetime. She must learn to keep her world at arm's length.

To take control, she has to do The Business.

Critics

  • Have you seen my teeth?

    Fans of Iain Banks will need no encouragement to buy his latest novel. Non-believers, however, should know that Banks is on decent form this time round, and that the book is closer in quality to Complicity or The Crow Road rather than the slightly di ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Iain Banks: The Business

    Gary Marshall Noam Chomsky was right, and Bill Hicks was a visionary. While we're all distracted by politics, the world is actually being controlled by an unelected and unaccountable organisation with the power to make or break entire nations. The pr ... (read full critics)

    spikemagazine published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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