Midnight of the Phoenix

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Author: Jim Brewster ISBN: 9781462802876
Publisher: Xlibris US Publication: April 3, 2001
Imprint: Xlibris US Language: English
Author: Jim Brewster
ISBN: 9781462802876
Publisher: Xlibris US
Publication: April 3, 2001
Imprint: Xlibris US
Language: English

: Darius Bey, an Egyptian immigrant, has risen to preeminence in corporate America by devious financial manipulation. He conglomerate, International Holdings, Inc., has recently acquired a medical research firm whose data from a new vaccine indicates a cure for AIDS. Initially heralding a miraculous break-through, more extensive testing in Zaire divulges an alarming morality rate. Unwilling to release the damaging results to the FDA, Bey plans to aggressively market the drug while secretly buying millions of shares of company stock with the aid of his Mafia partners. Aware that he must stay one step ahead of the certain SEC and the FBI investigation, he plans to dump the stock after its initial run-up blaming his executives, specifically a newly hired VP Marketing.

Beys devious plan entangles four applicants for the new VP Marketing position. They have been brought in as a group for interviews. As the interviews proceed, they become increasingly aware that something is wrong with the project. What started as competition for a job becomes an ominous involvement leading to violence. Almost by accident, the candidates start the domino effect that leads to the unraveling of Beys plans. In the process, two love stories develop among the applicants. Finally exposed, Bey seeks to escape only to die in a fiery plane crash as he is taking off for the Caymans.

There are four principal characters in addition to Darius Bey: Tom Orrick, divorced ex-Bronco defensive back; Elyda Nelson, a beautiful Black woman with limited expectations yet the most eager for the job; Chris Parker, Boston Brahmin, graduate of Hotchkiss School, Yale University, and Harvard Business School, engaged to a Back Bay socialite; Sue Benson, Miss America runner-up, embittered by her hero fathers infidelity. Other characters involved are executive recruiters, Orricks Bronco buddies, and a nubile young Latino who plays to Beys well-known appetites.

The story is dialog driven. The location is set in downtown Phoenix, Arizona with sorties to various towns in the Valley.

The title derives from the legend (Egyptian) of the ancient Phoenix consumed by flames at midnight but reborn at dawn from its own ashes.

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: Darius Bey, an Egyptian immigrant, has risen to preeminence in corporate America by devious financial manipulation. He conglomerate, International Holdings, Inc., has recently acquired a medical research firm whose data from a new vaccine indicates a cure for AIDS. Initially heralding a miraculous break-through, more extensive testing in Zaire divulges an alarming morality rate. Unwilling to release the damaging results to the FDA, Bey plans to aggressively market the drug while secretly buying millions of shares of company stock with the aid of his Mafia partners. Aware that he must stay one step ahead of the certain SEC and the FBI investigation, he plans to dump the stock after its initial run-up blaming his executives, specifically a newly hired VP Marketing.

Beys devious plan entangles four applicants for the new VP Marketing position. They have been brought in as a group for interviews. As the interviews proceed, they become increasingly aware that something is wrong with the project. What started as competition for a job becomes an ominous involvement leading to violence. Almost by accident, the candidates start the domino effect that leads to the unraveling of Beys plans. In the process, two love stories develop among the applicants. Finally exposed, Bey seeks to escape only to die in a fiery plane crash as he is taking off for the Caymans.

There are four principal characters in addition to Darius Bey: Tom Orrick, divorced ex-Bronco defensive back; Elyda Nelson, a beautiful Black woman with limited expectations yet the most eager for the job; Chris Parker, Boston Brahmin, graduate of Hotchkiss School, Yale University, and Harvard Business School, engaged to a Back Bay socialite; Sue Benson, Miss America runner-up, embittered by her hero fathers infidelity. Other characters involved are executive recruiters, Orricks Bronco buddies, and a nubile young Latino who plays to Beys well-known appetites.

The story is dialog driven. The location is set in downtown Phoenix, Arizona with sorties to various towns in the Valley.

The title derives from the legend (Egyptian) of the ancient Phoenix consumed by flames at midnight but reborn at dawn from its own ashes.

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