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Title: Gone fishing
Review: A hybrid of Harold Robbins & Sidney Sheldon, with huge helpings of dark sex and psychological wreckage. Billed as a chess match--but games rarely carry such consequences.The heroine of the novel, Francie Bollinger is very much reminiscent of the heroine of A Glimpse of Stocking. Both are bright young women just beginning their careers; hopes high, ambitious, not yet tainted by the world. In both cases they encounter an extremely powerful man who robs them of their innocence in the worst way possible, igniting a burning desire to succeed and take revenge.I'm not so big a fan of the boardroom part of the boardroom + bedroom genre, so all that talk about designing computer programs and having meetings was hard going; and there was quite a bit of it, I'll add. The rest I found to be a rather well done depiction of what life is like when daddy is a heartless, ruthless monster who needs to control everyone.
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