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Following The Birthday Boys, a story about Robert Falcon Scott's deadly trek to the South Pole, and Every Man for Himself, about the sinking of the Titanic, Master Georgie completes an ambitious trilogy of novels that dissect great examples of human folly. But to say that Bainbridge--who is perhaps one of the best living novelists Americans don't know much about, and whose work, including this latest novel, has been shortlisted five times for the prestigious Booker Prize--writes historical fiction is like saying that Jane Austen wrote domestic comedies. These three novels, each around a mere...
...chutzpah of Long Term Capital's principal manager, John Meriwether, is matched only by the unmitigated greed and ignorance of his hedge fund's investors. They took absurd risks, and they deserve to lose! MITCH FALCON New York City...
...small crew of seamen and scientist, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of Antarctica's Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton proposed to force a passage by dogsled across the continent. The trek was intended to surpass the achievement of Shackleton's great rival, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who had reached the South Pole early in 1912 (narrowly preceded by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen) but had died with his four companions on the march back...
...bird! It's a plane! No, it's Suzuki's Hayabusa (Japanese for falcon), said to be the fastest "street-legal" sport bike ever made. Its 1,300-cc engine and aerodynamic design enable the bike to reach 186 m.p.h., leaving the current champ, the Honda Blackbird, in the dust. What good is having a vehicle that can go three times the speed limit? Ask any guy with a Ferrari...
...Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett