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  <title><![CDATA[The First Billion]]></title>
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  <default-description>Money makes the world go round for Jett Gavallon, a high-tech  entrepreneur who's on the brink of bringing a Russian telecom startup to market  with an IPO worth billions. But when his best friend and second-in-command  disappears after Gavallon sends him to Moscow to make sure the new company is on  the up and up, Jett begins to have second thoughts, which are exactly what his  Russian partners can't afford. Beset by an FBI task force looking into Mercury  Broadband's financing by Russian mobsters, rumors of fraud being circulated by a  Drudge-like online financial gossip columnist, and the discovery that his former  lover is not who he thought she was, Jett puts his fortune on the line in a  desperate attempt to save his company--and ultimately, his life. An exciting,  fast-paced adventure by an author who puts his experience in international  banking to work in the service of this carefully plotted thriller. &lt;I&gt;--Jane  Adams&lt;/I&gt;</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2002</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>The First Billion</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Christopher Reich]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reich, Christopher.  THE FIRST BILLION.  (2002).  ***.  Reich has garnered a reputation of being the John Grisham of the financial world.  His books are, technically, thrillers, but most of the thrills in this novel are forced.  Having worked in M&amp;A, there are big holes in Reich’s plot for this on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30778736">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 17 18:47:17 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 29 07:24:33 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This got off to a slow start. I'm a big Stephen Frey fan, and I thought Reich might be similar. He is, but the story just wasn't as tight and well-spun as a Frey &quot;financial thriller.&quot; <br/><br/>There were too many peripheral characters, and you sometimes would get a brief introduction to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27580848">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58596097">
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 05 18:04:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 05 18:06:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting insight to the greedy IPO world and a nice mix with action and suspense; main character is a little too perfect and too rich....needed more flaws...puts entire fighter jet on AMEX....really!]]></body>
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    <review id="71250754">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 14 21:07:44 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[How financial greed could ruin your life if you aren't a fictional character. Amazing what you can charge to an American Express card, thank goodness or the plot would have died! ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Nov 14 17:59:29 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this one too!  Quite a bit happening in it and it had some finance in it which always interests me.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Jul 26 16:32:30 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Action/Intenational Intgrigue]]></body>
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    <review id="32326494">
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 08 06:59:53 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 08 07:03:35 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I enjoyed reading the book and ripped through it fairly quickly. I enjoy the genre but it's the equivalent of Star magazine for me. Fun to read at the checkout counter but quickly forgotten. I read it over a vacation to help the time pass and it fit the bill perfectly but if you're looking for mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32326494">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59275086">
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Finance / / IPO / Russia. Good.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 04 15:04:26 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read six other books and still trying to finish this one.  That may be a sign...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[bankers always have it the hardest.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Russian Swindle<br/>]]></body>
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