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...suit charges that The Wall Street Journal and Journal reporter Bryan Burrough defamed Freeman in an article about his dealings with international banker Edmond Safra, according to a press release issued by Freeman's attorney...
...real tournament, Wallooppillai and Burrough advanced to the round of 16, along with Zimmerman, Shyjan and Derek Brown...
HarperCollins gave Burrough his million partly to reward him for Barbarians at the Gate. Burrough and fellow Journal reporter John Helyar shared a $150,000 advance for that vivid saga of the $25 billion RJR-Nabisco takeover war. They wrote the 528-page book in just seven months. An instant hit, Barbarians has sold more than 300,000 copies so far and has been a fixture on best-seller lists for 38 weeks...
...book climbed the charts, Burrough pondered what to write about next. "I moped around for quite a while," he recalls, "thinking I wouldn't find anything that interested me as Barbarians had." But before long, he was probing the story behind American Express's extraordinary campaign against Safra, which ended last year when the company apologized to the banker and paid $8 million in damages to him and his favorite charities. "I told my agent and publisher that I was working on something that could be the next book," says Burrough. When the Journal published his 10,000-word account...
...devoted reader of true crime stories and a demon for detail, Burrough weaves suspense into his tales of high finance and intrigue. "I try to write somewhat the way a good murder mystery is written," he explains. "My stories sometimes read as if ((LBO king)) Henry Kravis were approaching with an ax instead of a buyout offer." Burrough may have hit the peak of fascination with 1980s whodunits. As the 1990s wear on, his agent Andrew Wylie says with literary disdain, readers are likely to become more interested in advice books on "how to stave off disaster...