There are levels within levels on both sides. Chapter lengths range from a few paragraphs to a few pages, each one filled with the suspense of never being completely sure which side the characters are on. Instead, short episodes are told through the eyes of the person involved. The story is not told through just one character's point of view. Even when the two agree to marry, one wonders if it is more of a business arrangement than anything else. The granddaughter, Leah Lockwood, combines business with pleasure and leaves the reader to question if she really loves her latest boyfriend or is she involved with him just because she needs his help in running the company. In addition to themes of politics and power, sexual intrigue also plays a major role. When the grandfather, who is head of the company, dies under mysterious circumstances, his adult granddaughter searches for clues to find the killer. The political and power-driven intrigue for control of Lockwood Petroleum involves an international cast of characters as well as three generations of the Lockwood family.
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Put together the fast-paced Jason Bourne series by Robert Ludlum with the legal thrillers of John Grisham and you have The Odessa Concessions. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title."I sometimes wonder if people like me didn't have a good deal to do with making the world the way it is now." He and his wife Victoria, who is on the Board of the South Fork-Shelter Island chapter of The Nature Conservancy (after working for them for seven years as Associate Director of Development and Special Events), have been residents of the South Fork of Long Island for more than fifteen years. Lustbader serves on the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee of the City and Country School in Greenwich Village, and tends his prized collection of Japanese maples and beech trees (The New York Times, Martha Stewart's Living). Writing in 'Cash Box' Magazine, he also predicted the successes of such bands as Santana, Roxy Music, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, David Bowie, and The Who, among others. As a consequence, he and Elton and Bernie Taupin, Elton's lyricist became friends. He was the first writer in the US to write about Elton John, and to predict his success.
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Before turning to writing full time, he enjoyed highly successful careers in the New York City public school system, where he holds licenses in both elementary and early childhood education, and in the music business, where he worked for Elektra Records and CBS Records, among other companies. He is a graduate of Columbia College, with a degree in Sociology. Most recently, he has been working on a number of short stories and novellas which appeared in 1999: 'Off The Beaten Path: Stories of Place' for Farrar, Strauss and Giroux and 'Murder And Obsession' for Delacourt Press for Avon Books. He is also the author of a successful and highly regarded series of fantasy novels. His novels have been translated into twenty languages his books are best-sellers worldwide and are so popular whole sections of bookstores from Bangkok to Dublin are devoted to them. He is the author of more than twenty best-selling novels, including 'The Ninja', in which he introduced Nicholas Linnear, one of modern fiction's most loved and enduring heroes, 'Black Heart', 'Angel Eyes', 'The Kaisho', 'Floating City', 'Second Skin', and 'Dark Homecoming'. Now, Bourne must fight off attempts on his life, track down uranium, and stop terrorists from launching an even more devastating attack against the U.S.Įric Van Lustbader (he dropped his middle name Van, for several years due to a confusion about his last name) was born and raised in Greenwich Village. The double, continuing to pose as Martin Lindros, orders a world-wide sanction against Bourne. intelligence and uses the information to coordinate an attack against a major U.S. He becomes convinced that they're false, but who planted them and why? And how can he function if he can't rely on his own memories? Eventually, Bourne figures out that the man he saved in Africa isn't his friend but a double, a terrorist intent on sending Bourne off on a wild goose chase while he himself steals U.S. In Odessa, Bourne is hampered by confusing flashes of memories. After Bourne finds him, Martin returns to the U.S., but only after he persuades Bourne to go to Odessa to penetrate the clandestine world of terrorist money men there. Two months after Jason Bourne's second wife has dies, he learns that Martin Lindros, his only friend in the CIA, went missing in Africa where he was tracking shipments of yellowcake uranium.