How to Make Millions while Ruining a Corporation – 5 stars
Attorney Don Tremain has just left one corporate job to join another, newer corporation, Caldera Geothermal, that specializes in alternative energy sources. He’s hoping that this new gig will be just what he needs to revive his career path that had stalled out at his old job. What he doesn’t realize is that his new company has become the target of a group of unscrupulous vulture investors who have begun a systematic approach to ruining Caldera by using any and all methods necessary, including bribery, insider trading, and even murder.
This book was an education in the legal ins-and-outs of the corporate world and bankruptcy as well as a high-powered thriller with a lot of action. I can easily picture this on the big screen with all of the dirty tricks, car chases, corporate moles, and an assortment of suave and sleazy bad guys. No doubt the movie version would leave out the educational legalistic portions of the story, but those are the backbone of the plot and need to be there in order to make some sense of what’s happening to Caldera. It does make for some heavy sledding at times, but it’s worth the trouble to understand how the system can be gamed to the benefit of the unscrupulous.
The main character, Don, often seems to be the only one with any integrity or loyalty as he becomes buried under the work load of trying to keep his corporation afloat. He’s one worth cheering for.
Recommended.