Author: Alan Glynn
Cites
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (2)
- IN: Limitless (2001) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: He had come a long way to this blue law, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
FROM: The Great Gatsby, (1925), Novel, US
- IN: The Dark Fields (2001) Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Psychological Fiction
, Irish
EPIGRAPH: He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
FROM: The Great Gatsby, (1925), Novel, US
- NULL (1)
- IN: Graveland (2013) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Irish
EPIGRAPH: In early 2001, having saddled the pharmaceutical giant with huge debt and cut its workforce by a third, Vaughan’s Oberon Capital Group sold Eiben-Chemcorp for a profit of $457 million. It appears, however, that Oberon did this in the full knowledge that an R &D scandal involving leaked samples of a trial “smart drug” was brewing at Eiben. What is more-and is perhaps more shocking-they then shorted the buyer’s stock in order to make a double killing on the transaction.
FROM: House of Vaughan (p. 23), (None), NULL, NULL