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    <body><![CDATA[If you'd like a look inside the auto industry as it was at the time Harold Robbins wrote The Betsy, this is the book for you. Corporate politics, sex, violence, and intrigue surround the creation of a new car, the main character, Angelo Perino, calls The Betsy. <br/><br/>Several twists in plot, se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54683803">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Harold Robbins had by this time become one of my favorite fiction authors.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyed it. I enjoy books about the auto industry and it seems more pertinent in this time.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In The Betsy, Harold Robbins breaks open the shocking world of the automobile industry. A world of savage ambition, searing passion, and breathtaking fortunes won or lost in a desperate struggle for power! They were two men bound together by their daring, their vision - and their erotic power over women. Angelo Perino rose from an immigrant family to life on the razor's edge, where fast cars and faster women were his for the taking. Loren Hardeman was the patriarch of a giant automobile empire - and of a family sliding into decadence, adultery and destruction. From Detroit to the lavish estates of Grosse Pointe, Miami and the Riviera, they conspired to build the world's most advanced automobile - The Betsy. To do it, they would risk everything they had - and the destinies of the men and women caught in the fire of their dream!]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book of fiction I ever read. I snuck it from my dad and kept it in a brown paper bag. It will never get better than that~<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In The Betsy, Harold Robbins breaks open the shocking world of the automobile industry. A world of savage ambition, searing passion, and breathtaking fortunes won or lost in a desperate struggle for power! They were two men bound together by their daring, their vision - and their erotic power over women. Angelo Perino rose from an immigrant family to life on the razor's edge, where fast cars and faster women were his for the taking. Loren Hardeman was the patriarch of a giant automobile empire - and of a family sliding into decadence, adultery and destruction. From Detroit to the lavish estates of Grosse Pointe, Miami and the Riviera, they conspired to build the world's most advanced automobile - The Betsy. To do it, they would risk everything they had - and the destinies of the men and women caught in the fire of their dream!]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mr. Robbins novels are not for the faint of heart...they always contain frank discussions of sex and drugs, and often cross over into descriptions of same.  Frequently--as in this novel--the sex is fetishistic in nature (one of the first scenes of this book involves a woman who drinks her lovers' ur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34950797">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In The Betsy, Harold Robbins breaks open the shocking world of the automobile industry. A world of savage ambition, searing passion, and breathtaking fortunes won or lost in a desperate struggle for power! They were two men bound together by their daring, their vision - and their erotic power over women. Angelo Perino rose from an immigrant family to life on the razor's edge, where fast cars and faster women were his for the taking. Loren Hardeman was the patriarch of a giant automobile empire - and of a family sliding into decadence, adultery and destruction. From Detroit to the lavish estates of Grosse Pointe, Miami and the Riviera, they conspired to build the world's most advanced automobile - The Betsy. To do it, they would risk everything they had - and the destinies of the men and women caught in the fire of their dream!]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the boldness in Harold Robbins novels. Though the leads have grey shades but we still fall in love with them. THis one is about a complicated rich family who manufacture cars..the family is seriously complicated ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In The Betsy, Harold Robbins breaks open the shocking world of the automobile industry. A world of savage ambition, searing passion, and breathtaking fortunes won or lost in a desperate struggle for power! They were two men bound together by their daring, their vision - and their erotic power over women. Angelo Perino rose from an immigrant family to life on the razor's edge, where fast cars and faster women were his for the taking. Loren Hardeman was the patriarch of a giant automobile empire - and of a family sliding into decadence, adultery and destruction. From Detroit to the lavish estates of Grosse Pointe, Miami and the Riviera, they conspired to build the world's most advanced automobile - The Betsy. To do it, they would risk everything they had - and the destinies of the men and women caught in the fire of their dream!]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of a very peculiar family whose main bussiness is to make racing cars.]]></body>
    
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