My wife and I spent some time this evening trying to work out whether we enjoyed the latest offering from Harlan Coben - Caught.
There is no question it was a page-turner. I started it earlier today after downloading it to my kindle and it was finished by 4pm. I don't know exactly what it was but this story was more about curiousity than necessarily a cracking plot.
The book starts with local do-gooder Dan Mercer being setup in a sting which would seem to indicate he was having an inappropriate relationship with a 13 year old boy. Mercer's life is wrecked in a very public and humiliating manner on a sleaze TV show and his world falls apart... especially when it later appears that he may be implicated in other cases.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Barry Sergeant: Brett Kebble - The Inside Story
Being interested in financial markets, I have been meaning to read the Barry Sergeant book - Brett Kebble - The Inside Story - for a while now. One of my colleagues gave me a copy and I just finished it this morning.
Have to say it was a bit of a mixed bag and if you have no interest in mining, the Kebbles or stockmarket investing then this book will just be one big question mark for you.
Make no mistake this book was heavy going. With so many companies, personalities, fake business entities etc. I won't lie I battled through it. I think you would need to be an auditor to try and keep track over what Kebble was actually doing!
The Kebble "fraud" is likely to be one of the those stories which will hang around for so many years. As a mining character he was larger than life and almost everybody I have met had a story to tell about him and when the story of him being killed in a hail of bullets in Melrose broke, it took a long while for the dust to start to settle.
No questions asked, this was a very heavy read and if you are looking for braindead entertainment this isn't it. If you are looking for clues as to who actually killd Kebble, then the story skirts around this a bit but doesn't nail it down.
Still it was definately an interesting read and will probably go down as one of those collector items in South African investment history. Well done to Barry for putting together such a comprehensive read.
Title: Brett Kebble - The Inside Story
Author: Barry Sergeant
ISBN: 978-1-77007-306-7
You can buy the book from online retailer Loot for R166.00.
We rated the book a 3 out of 5 but found it very heavy going!
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Have to say it was a bit of a mixed bag and if you have no interest in mining, the Kebbles or stockmarket investing then this book will just be one big question mark for you.
Make no mistake this book was heavy going. With so many companies, personalities, fake business entities etc. I won't lie I battled through it. I think you would need to be an auditor to try and keep track over what Kebble was actually doing!
The Kebble "fraud" is likely to be one of the those stories which will hang around for so many years. As a mining character he was larger than life and almost everybody I have met had a story to tell about him and when the story of him being killed in a hail of bullets in Melrose broke, it took a long while for the dust to start to settle.
No questions asked, this was a very heavy read and if you are looking for braindead entertainment this isn't it. If you are looking for clues as to who actually killd Kebble, then the story skirts around this a bit but doesn't nail it down.
Still it was definately an interesting read and will probably go down as one of those collector items in South African investment history. Well done to Barry for putting together such a comprehensive read.
Title: Brett Kebble - The Inside Story
Author: Barry Sergeant
ISBN: 978-1-77007-306-7
You can buy the book from online retailer Loot for R166.00.
We rated the book a 3 out of 5 but found it very heavy going!
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Looking for books, video games, electronics and other goods? Want It All- S.A's Largest Online Shop Click Here
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