Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough

One of his high school classmates, Danny Corwin, was a vicious serial killer who had raped and mutilated six.

An enduring masterpiece of investigative journalism by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, it includes a new. Best-selling author Bryan Burrough (Barbarians at the Gate, Public Enemies, Big Rich) recently made a shocking discovery: The small town of Temple, Texas, where he had grown up, had harbored a dark secret. This revised edition brings the ultimate business thriller up to date for a new generation of readers. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco. Twenty years on, the world is once again recovering from a period of financial extravagance and irresponsibility. The battle for the control of RJR Nabisco in the Autumn of 1988, which became the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history, sent shock-waves through the international business world and became a symbol of the greed, excess and egotism of the eighties.īarbarians at the Gate recounts this two-month battle with breathtaking pace and flair, and transports back to the Wall Street empire before it crumbled, through the boardroom doors, into the midnight meetings, the betrayals, the deal makers and publicity flaks, into a world where - as Nabisco CEO Ross Johnson put it - 'a few million dollars are lost in the sands of time'. Our marketplace offers millions of titles. Mouthwatering stuff' Griff Rhys Jones, The Top Ten Best Non-Fiction Books for Men, Independent Buy Barbarians at the Gate New edition by Bryan Burrough, John Helyar (ISBN: 9780099469155) online at Alibris. Anniversary edition of the classic, bestselling business thriller - 'This is the eye-popping truth about greed on a JCB scale.

Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough