false 2461765 2 Jamie DeBroux's boss has called a special meeting for all "key personnel" at 9:00 a.m. on a hot Saturday in August. When Jamie arrives, the conference room is stocked with cookies and champagne. His boss smiles and tells his employees, "We're a cover for a branch of the intelligence community. And we're being shut down." Jamie's boss then tells everyone to drink some champagne, and in a few seconds they'll fall asleep — for good. If they refuse, they'll be shot in the head. Escape is not an option. Jamie's boss has shut down the elevators and rigged the fire towers with chemical bombs. Panic sets in, chaos erupts, and no one is sure whom to trust. Jamie quickly realizes that there's only one way he's ever going to see his family again: the hard way. 2468960 book 27 5 2008 Severance Package total:225|5:40|4:71|3:81|2:25|1:8| 225 785 331 80 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 4 3 true Mon Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 15 10:32:21 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 13:13:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 1 2 false Fri Jun 27 18:06:51 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 18:13:58 -0700 2008
Rife with cliche, Severance Package is about a wimp whose boss decides to kill his company. Cheesy, comic-book violen...more...]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 3 2 false Sun Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 11:03:48 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 13:30:06 -0700 2008
]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 1 1 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 18:07:42 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 15:38:43 -0700 2008 Another GR reviewer wrote:
"There's been a terrible mix-up. Author Duane Swierczynski seems to have submitted this screenplay to a publishing house, and it somehow got printed and marketed as a book."

...and she is dead on. I like Swierczynski's sense of the absurd, and thi...more...]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 4 0 true Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 26 09:01:22 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 09:03:24 -0700 2009 http://www.fnordinc.com/2008/08-26/sever...

Severance Package - Duane Swierczynski

Duane Swierczynski… people in the book world will remember him for books like “The Blond”. Comic book readers will remember him as the new force behind the Marvel series Cable and Iron fist....more...]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 3 0 false Sun Nov 23 22:59:14 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 22:59:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 4 0 false Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 13:58:51 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 12:11:55 -0700 2009 The Wheelman and The Blonde.

This books tells the story of a Saturday meeting at the o...more...]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 2 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 09:14:17 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 20 10:59:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 2 0 false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 11:59:21 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 17:14:46 -0700 2009
The "hero" is just a...more...]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 3 1 false Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 09:39:14 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 18:51:12 -0700 2008 1 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 1 0 false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 12:18:25 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 07:40:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 4 0 false Mon Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 04 13:17:09 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 13 18:07:40 -0700 2008 1
While the book had "mindless" violence, this is exactly the kind of book that I could see being made into a movie. Unfortunately, you had the stories of about 10 characters p...more...]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 5 0 false Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 11:22:52 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 11:23:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 2 0 false Sat Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 21:04:37 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 09:37:38 -0700 2008
Trying to review something like this is quite challenge. 263 pages of senseless violence done very effectively is still senseless violence. The only socially redeeming aspect of this is that th...more...]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 2 0 false Thu Jun 05 14:31:25 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 14:57:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 3 0 false Sat Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 06:52:37 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 07:28:45 -0700 2008
Jamie DeBroux reports to work at the end of paternity leave for a "management meeting." There, his boss reveals...more...]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 3 0 false Thu Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 12:57:12 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 13:30:50 -0700 2008 Duane Swierczynski delivers. It's film noir meets TV's The Office, with a healthy dose of superfluous bedlam. The plot requires one to suspend disbelief, but it's over-the-top funny. Talk about taking fluid rounds (after-work drinking) a step to far, Duane does it with grea...more...]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 5 0 false Sun Jan 18 11:16:52 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 11:20:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 5 0 false Wed Jan 21 07:52:36 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 07:52:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2461765 0312343809 9780312343804 225 79 3.49 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2461765.Severance_Package 5 0 false Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 16:45:21 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 15:21:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=548790