The prize is more than to be Chairman of the Board; it is to control the biggest and most prestiglous hotel chain in the world. Two men race towards this goal. One is an American, born to nothing; the other is an Englishman, born to everything. Harry Rudd is a Boston airport loader's son, thrust to boardroom power by the death of an heiress wife he adored. Sir Ian Buckland also achieved his position and his title by inheritance: a father-to-son legacy negiected for the gambling tables of Mayfair, a yachting club, and the charms of one of his wife's oldest friends. The takeover battle pits American ruthlessness against British Establishment in a raw test of survival which neither is prepared to lose ...
- ISBN10 0727822411
- ISBN13 9780727822413
- Publish Date 27 November 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 September 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English