Bøger af Gerald Gillis

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer... The Old Man is dead. Langdon Elerbee-the chairman and founder of Elerbee Engineering-has been struck down by cancer, and the multi-million dollar company that bears his name has devolved into clandestine corporate infighting. The company president, Jeff Wylie, has kept the old man's illness a secret, so no one but Wylie is prepared to exploit the power vacuum created by Elerbee's death. Now, Wylie is quietly pulling strings and making backdoor deals to consolidate his own position at the top of the pyramid. Dave Paige is a young gun. A regional vice president at age forty-two, he's one of the company's rising stars. He believes in playing the game the way that Elerbee himself had played it: with loyalty, integrity, and a personal devotion to excellence. He suddenly finds himself going head-to-head with corporate backstabbers who will pull every dirty trick in the book to achieve their own short-sighted goals. Dave isn't just fighting for his job, or the millions of dollars at stake, or even for the company he has grown to love. He's fighting for the soul of corporate America, and no one is guarding his back.

The Civil War has begun in earnest. Conor Rafferty joins the Confederate army as a young infantry officer against the wishes of his father who, in his Irish anger, is adamantly opposed to a war with the North. Conor soon finds himself in many of the war's most consequential battles, leading from the front and risking all inside that deadly space. He serves with distinction in General Robert E. Lee's celebrated Army of Northern Virginia as it seeks the crowning victory that will end the war and stop the carnage. Along the way, Conor becomes a protégé of fellow Georgian John B. Gordon who eventually rises to command a Confederate army corps. At the conclusion of each chapter, the narrative transitions to the now aged Conor who answers the probing questions of his grandson Aaron, himself a captain in the U.S. Army and scheduled for duty in Europe during World War I. The grandfather and grandson thus spend a week together-a week of sharing, learning, and bonding.That Deadly Space is a compelling tale that portrays the drama, heroism, romance, and tragedy of the Civil War.