Word: thriller
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...Spies, guns, poison, intertwined plots so convoluted that you need to keep flicking back to the beginning of the book: it could all come from the pages of a cold war thriller. But it is very of the moment. The British government's decision to protest Moscow's refusal to hand over Lugovoi by expelling four Russian diplomats is just the latest manifestation not only of an increasingly bad-tempered spat between two nations, but of the estrangement from the West of Vladimir Putin's Russia...
...that would never have come to light except that in February Whole Foods made a $565 million play to buy Wild Oats--the very company rahodeb so soundly dissed online--and while reviewing the bid, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) turned up what would, if this were a spy thriller, be known as the Rahodeb Identity. The FTC is seeking to halt the deal on basic antitrust grounds--it claims that a union of the two companies would produce an organic-foods quasi-monopoly. The government may also be examining whether Mackey, in his double life, revealed information...
...human star of this summer's warring-alien-robot event film, Transformers; the voice of the lead penguin in the animated Surf's Up; the vulnerable bad boy in this spring's surprise hit, the Hitchcockian teen thriller Disturbia; and Spielberg's hand-picked choice to co-star with Ford and Cate Blanchett in the long-awaited fourth Indiana Jones movie due next May, LaBeouf is blowing up faster than a stunt car on a Michael Bay set. In an age when potential action heroes seem to be either rugged '80s relics like Ford and Sylvester Stallone or sensitive thespians...
...came "my 15 minutes of fame." The Big Picture - featuring a New York City lawyer on the run from a crime of passion - brought him a $1.1 million deal from New York's Hyperion Books and billing as the next John Grisham. He got $1 million for his next thriller, The Job, about an ambitious young salesman enmeshed in a web of deceit. Like its predecessor, the book sold decently but failed to earn back the advance. "On the book tour, I could sense it was tanking," Kennedy recalls. "I was 41. I decided I was going off to write...
That was The Pursuit of Happiness, a sweeping love story set in postwar New York City. It was more a romance than a thriller, and no U.S. publisher would touch it. "Then two things happened," says Kennedy. "First, I began to have success in Europe. Second, doors closed in New York." The novel thrived overseas, selling 350,000 copies in the U.K. alone. But to American publishers Kennedy was a loser...