i The Business, by iain Banks, 393
ages, Little, Brown & Co.,
$23. 95

PROLIFIC Scotsman Iain
Banks has caught pre-millen-
nial fever in his latest novel.
The Business centres around a glo-
betrotting, tough- -as-nails executive,

Kathryn Telman, in the service of
the world’s oldest corporation.

Having been rescued from a life
of Glaswegian poverty and risen
through the ranks of The Business,
Kathryn finds herself in a front-row
seat for the company’s latest machi-
nations.

Kathryn lives in a world of ¢-
DVD and corporate jets to the far-

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tlung sites of prospective business
ventures — including the kingdom
of Thulahn, whose prince pines des-
perately for her attention.

What our heroine doesn’t realize
is that she's the lynchpin of an inter-
national deal her bosses will use any
sort of blackmail to effect.

as she travels between the cold
stone walls of English mansions to
the deck of power boats moored off
Pakistan and the icy roads of
Switzerland, Kathryn’s journey
becomes more internalized when she
begins to question the motives of
the company she’s devoted her life
to.

Another gripping tale from the
most famous man in Fife.

— Katharine Hamer

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