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Caught in a war that pits greed and ambition against conscience and love, Emma Conway faces the fight of her life-to save her family, her company, and everything she treasures.
Emma is finally living the dream-a happy second marriage and a great career. She has built Percival & Baxter's painkiller, Acordinol, into a huge success. But her dream becomes a nightmare when a Wall Street raider threatens a hostile takeover. Worse, the raider is no ordinary cutthroat but her ex-husband Josh Katz, father of their teenage son.
P&B's Poison Pill defense implodes when a mysteriously tainted batch of Acordinol starts killing people, including P&B's CEO. Emma is put in charge as P&B's stock plummets.
Her ex's game traps her in a web of secrets locked within secrets. A shadowy Russian oligarch behind Josh is lusting after the holy grail of drugs, the first Viagra for women. And a clandestine romance between Emma's son and the oligarch's estranged daughter puts them in the crosshairs of their parents' mortal combat.
New York Times bestselling author Glenn Kaplan looks inside the heart of today's business world to create page-turning suspense in a powerful tale of a woman who leans into success-and discovers deadly peril.
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- Sales Rank: #824508 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-10-22
- Released on: 2013-10-22
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly
Early in this melodramatic financial thriller from bestseller Kaplan (Evil, Inc.), Emma Conway, the CEO of a large pharmaceutical firm, Percival & Baxter, quarrels with her 16-year-old son, Peter, at home in Wynnewood, Pa. Peter cares only for money, just like his father and Emma's ex, Josh Katz, who lives in a grand house in Greenwich, Conn., and is about to attempt a hostile takeover of P&B. Josh, a self-made businessman who suffered heavy losses in the 2008 crash, has borrowed $500 million from Russian billionaire Viktor Volkov, who's hot on the trail of a female version of Viagra. Meanwhile, Viktor's 21-year-old daughter, Tanya, wants Peter to be the sperm donor for the baby she craves. Hurtling along from one clichéd crisis to another, this shallow thriller peppers the proceedings with big-name brands, tired dirty tricks, overheated adolescent sex, and mawkish resolutions to tidy up the various messes Kaplan inflicts on poor Emma and the rest of his stock characters. Agent: Al Zuckerman, Writers House. (Oct.)
Review
''High suspense, big money, romance, murder, very good storytelling -- who could ask for anything more?'' --James Patterson, #1 New York Times bestselling author
''Well worth the wait. Kaplan's plotting and pacing are superb, his writing is crisp, and his characters come alive on the page. A sophisticated and thoughtful thriller.'' --Nelson DeMille, New York Times bestselling author
''Great reading . . . ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.'' --Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author ''Tension and turmoil add up to high stakes suspense in a thriller that resonates with reality, tragedy, and triumph. Kaplan plays the reader like a virtuoso. All I want is more.'' --Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author
About the Author
GLENN KAPLAN is the author of The Big Time, a nonfiction book based on interviews with over three hundred top executives that examined the dynamics of success in the world of big business. He spent over twenty years in advertising, creating campaigns for Fortune 500 companies.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A tasty pill, but difficult to swallow
By TChris
The title of Poison Pill has a double meaning. It's the name given to a strategy to prevent hostile takeovers of corporations -- in this case, a pharmaceutical company -- but its literal meaning is also applicable. Someone is poisoning the company's leading product (a headache remedy) in order to destroy the company's value.
In chapter two, Peter Katz tells his mother all about the safe room in the basement of his father's Greenwich house. The savvy reader knows that, like Chekov's gun hanging on the wall, the safe room will reappear near the end of the novel. Peter's mother, Emma, is an executive at Percival & Baxter, a pharmaceutical company. His father, Emma's ex-husband Josh, is planning a hostile takeover of Percival & Baxter for his client, a mysterious Russian named Viktor Volkov whose reason for wanting control of the company is far-fetched but amusing. Viktor, hoping to create a dynasty in London, wants his daughter Tanya to breed with the little brother of the woman Viktor plans to marry, thus merging his wealth with the brother's title and producing the heirs he can no longer manufacture. Tanya wouldn't mind breeding but she has her own ideas about an appropriate sperm donor.
In many ways, young Peter is the most interesting character in the novel. He's caught in the middle of a war between his hotshot parents. His father wants to use him to influence his mother while his mother is poisoning his thoughts about his father. Peter and Tanya both belong to the Kroesus Club, an exclusive group of teens and young adults, the children of wealthy parents from around the world, a group that Peter generally despises. Peter is peripheral to the central story for much of the novel but he stars in an interesting subplot of his own. He is a believable character, although perhaps a bit more grounded and likeable than most teenage offspring of wealthy parents.
The other characters, like the plot, are well-conceived, although you wouldn't want to hang out with most of them. Family dramas pepper the novel and they turn out to be related to each other in unexpected ways. Scenes of domestic discord between well-paid Emma and her struggling artist second husband are dull and some of the scenes involving Emma and Josh approach melodrama, but there aren't many of those.
An interesting theme in Poison Pill is the ongoing debate about hostile takeovers. Josh sees himself as creating shareholder value while Emma sees him as destroying good companies. Greed is a related theme and while the lesson is obvious (greed isn't good), it is nonetheless satisfying. Those themes animate the thriller in a fairly conventional way. The story races to an unconvincing ending (Emma displays intuition that borders on ESP) that wraps up the story a little too neatly, but the novel as a whole is better than its disappointing climax.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Not at all interesting/intriguing!
By ADITI SAHA
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
----Mahatma Gandhi
That's incredibly correct. What will be left of us, if we all start to do that "eye-for-an-eye" thing- the world will be certainly doomed. But in this 21st century, we've clearly and proudly chose the road to doomed future rather than a better future- courtesy: thanks to revenge.
Well, sorry for drifting away from the topic, I mean that's what I was literally feeling after reading, Glenn Kaplan, a New York Times bestselling author's latest book, Poison Pill . Although my initial reaction after reading the book was WTF!?!! , still I felt it was something worth reading to have a reading-Robin-Cook-kind-novel-experience only till the mid-way of the book. And the ending was drastic, so w\out-of-the-world, and really crappy! End of story!
Synopsis:
Caught in a war that pits greed and ambition against conscience and love, Emma Conway faces the fight of her life—to save her family, her company, and everything she treasures.
Emma is finally living the dream—a happy second marriage and a great career. She has built Percival & Baxter’s painkiller, Acordinol, into a huge success. But her dream becomes a nightmare when a Wall Street raider threatens a hostile takeover. Worse, the raider is no ordinary cutthroat but her ex-husband Josh Katz, father of their teenage son.
P&B’s Poison Pill defense implodes when a mysteriously tainted batch of Acordinol starts killing people, including P&B’s CEO. Emma is put in charge as P&B’s stock plummets.
Her ex’s game traps her in a web of secrets locked within secrets. A shadowy Russian oligarch behind Josh is lusting after the holy grail of drugs, the first Viagra for women. And a clandestine romance between Emma’s son and the oligarch’s estranged daughter puts them in the crosshairs of their parents’ mortal combat.
The author Glenn Kaplan looks inside the heart of today's business world to create page-turning suspense in a powerful tale of a woman who leans into success—and discovers deadly peril.
Doesn't the blurb sound incredibly thrilling and intriguing! Well at least that's what I thought about the blurb. And once I started reading the book, I simply couldn't stop myself- only till the mid-way of the story!
From the well-developed characters to the smooth flow of narration to articulate prose- everything sounded and looked perfect in order to be the next best thriller. But alas, when the company's stocks became lower, the plot took a total 360 degree turn and fell in to the Devil's Sinkhole, logically speaking, the story went out of its pace- became slow, the characters lost its charm, except Emma Conway and wait the worst is yet to come, the most deadly Russian villain in the world falls for his daughter's sweet little trap! How cliché!
Anyways, I liked Emma a lot- determined, caring mother- for both her teenage son and her company P&B. Anyways, the beginning of the story was super-awesome- completely Robin-Cook-novel-type. I was scared too, sweating out in anticipation, and that stupid ending, especially almost mid-way in the book, I felt like, I cannot keep reading this. But for the sake of the author's hard work, I somehow managed to read it till its end. I already said, the book's writing won't disappoint you-simple and very narrative, and I can almost see the events unfolding right in front of my eyes. Well I wish there was something missing from the plot- the element which will give you an adrenaline rushing feeling.
The characterization was very skillfully done. All the primary key characters were completely justifiable with the plot- a very ambitious corporate woman to the clueless, virgin teenager to a rich aristocrat! They could have charmed their readers only if they would have got opportunity to show off their hidden talents and charm in the story! But overall the revenge angle shown in the story was bit dull and not at all interesting!
Verdict: It was not at all a page-turning suspense, but in the beginning it managed to keep me in its intriguing loop!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A Pill it is not
By M Jones
A good read I would recommend for airpplanes or doctoir office waits. Enjoyed it but nothing special. Might try this author again.
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