Francine Boyers, a bright and beautiful young West Virginian with a mining engineering degree and an MBA, is hired by Jim O’Hara, CEO of OHARA Mining in New York. As the CEO’s personal assistant, she proves to be unusually quick on her feet, deft at fending off wolfish men, and rises through the ranks to Vice President with astonishing speed, handling pollution issues with Congress, a protest at a mining conference in Paris, troubles with OHARA’s Caribbean gold and bauxite investments, and the rescue of miners in Sumatra. Her friend Nancy Smith sums up her preternatural talent for solving problems: “And you have that special gift of knowing what to do when nobody else does.” She helps the company battle the Environmental Protection Agency, whose invasive regulations kill the coal miners’ jobs and gets caught in the middle of an internecine tug of war within the company between the CEO and Ted Holler, his environmentalist nemesis on the board. She ultimately finds herself enmeshed in a corporate conspiracy, with the continued existence of the company–and her own reputation–on the line, facing trade issues with China. Will she save the company, and find happiness?
Am I SUPPOSED to be having Empress Theresa flashbacks?
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Grrr, those pesky EPA and environmentalists! OHARA sounds like a great employer :-/
The whole story in the blurb, what’s left to read?
And I bet the answers to the two questions at the end are No, No.