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Blindside
Catherine Coulter
Manufacturer: Jove
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0515137200
Release Date: 2004-06-29

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Get blindsided by the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

FBI agents Savich and Sherlock face two baffling cases in Catherine Coulter's electrifying thriller, a riveting novel of knife-edge suspense.

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FBI agents Savich and Sherlock face two baffling cases in Catherine Coulter's electrifying new thriller. Catherine Coulter's fast-paced FBI novels featuring married FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich have rocketed up the New York Times bestseller lists and garnered millions of fans. Coulter's heady blend of action and intrigue grows more intoxicating with each book-and reaches new heights in Blindside. A riveting novel of knife-edge suspense, Blindside is Catherine Coulter at the top of her game. For more about Catherine Coulter and information on events, personal appearances and to sign up for Catherine's e-mail newsletter, visit www.catherinecoulter.com

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Very good book.......2007-01-16

This is a very good book. I loved reading Blindside. The Book was ship and received in excelent shape. Thank you

No Thrills.......2006-11-14

Catherine Coulter's "Blindside" is an insult to any reader over the age of 8. Coulter, best known for her formula romances, cannot seem to decide if she wants to write a mystery, crime story or a romance with this book, so she has produced a disjointed mélange, which leaves the reader confused. It is difficult to suspend belief for the sake of this story when the writer gives us a sherrif who fires at the feet of an attacker who has fired his gun at her several times. She then fails to call for back immediately, allowing two criminals to make their escape. The sheriff doesn't get any smarter as the tale goes on. She manages to allow Clancy to escape, not once, but three times (two of those escapes needed the help of FBI agents or fellow police officers to be properly bungled). The book does not improve as it reaches its denouement. Coulter concludes her story as it began - with highly trained law enforcement people acting like Keystone Cops. "Blindside" is billed as "An FBI Thriller". It should be billed as a sure-fire cure for insomnia. I was asleep before I finished the third chapter.

so cheesy!!!.......2006-09-28

the crime aspect of the story wasn't too bad- not the greatest, but not the worst. but that love story between Miles and the female cop??? TERRIBLE! It was so unrealistic. Our kids like each other? Let's get married! The book seems like a total Mary Sue (look it up on Wiki if you don't know what i mean). This was the first of Coulter's books that I read, and without knowing her background, I could immediately tell that she was a romance novelist. The descriptions are cheesy and the "love" is fake. Don't waste your time.

great.......2006-08-25

Coulter never disappoints you with her FBI series. It's hard to put it down once you've started. Love her way of bringing you into the ever expanding cast of characters and families, similar to Agatha Christie and Dell Shannon-Elizabeth Linnington.

Very poor effort.......2006-04-11

I was very disappointed with this book. The storyline is illogical, shallow and completely unbelievable. The characters and dialogue are ridiculous and stilted. The two storylines never come together leaving the reader to wonder what was the point? Having read other Catherine Coulter books, I cannot fathom why her editor ever allowed this book to get into print unless it was to meet some contractual deadline.

Catherine Coulter CD Collection: Eleventh Hour, Blindside, and Blowout

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Catherine Coulter CD Collection: Eleventh Hour, Blindside, and Blowout
Catherine Coulter
Manufacturer: Brilliance Audio on CD
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ASIN: 1423316762
Release Date: 2006-09-29

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Eleventh Hour:
When FBI agent Dane Carver's twin brother, Father Michael Joseph, is brutally murdered in his San Francisco church, husband-and-wife agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich take a personal interest in the investigation. Then Nicola "Nick" Jones, a homeless woman and the only witness to the shooting, is scared out of her mind because she is trying to hide from her own monsters - who are drawing closer and closer.

Blindside:
When six-year-old Sam Kettering is kidnapped and then manages to save himself, Savich and Sherlock join his father-former FBI agent Miles Kettering -to determine why Sam would be abducted and brought to eastern Tennessee. Though the local sheriff, Katie Benedict, catches up with Sam before the kidnappers do, the case isn't over -not by a long shot.

Blowout:
A long weekend in the Poconos is cut short when Sherlock and Savich are helicoptered back to Washington to lead the investigation into the brutal murder of a Supreme Court Justice. Savich allows Callie Markham, an investigative reporter for The Washington Post, to partner with local Metro Police liaison Ben Raven, since she's got the inside track - she's the stepdaughter of the murdered justice.

Blindside: Why Japan Is Still on Track to Overtake the U.S. by the Year 2000

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An Eye Opener
Brilliant analysis of a World beating economic system
Brilliant analysis of a World beating economic system
this one has not aged gracefully
this guy knows Japan

Blindside: Why Japan Is Still on Track to Overtake the U.S. by the Year 2000
Eamonn Fingleton
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0395633168

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In the first four years of this decade, Japanese exports rose 32%, the yen rose 27%, and Japanese employers created a net 3.2 million jobs. Though Japan is now the world's largest manufacturing economy, Fingelton argues that Americans are still underestimating the country's economic prowess.

"... a crisp, well- written, well-executed alarum." -- New York Times Book Review

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An Eye Opener.......2004-04-26

I was speaking to a friend of mine who is in the insurance sector in Tokyo. During the course of our discussion, we came to the topic of economic slump and how people who visit Tokyo on business are led to believe that the slump is much larger and more devastating than what the press reports.
My friend laughed it off and said the Japanese are good artists of deception and he went on to give me an example. India ( like most developing countries of the region ) takes loans from ADB. apparently ADB is funded by Ministry of Finance, Japan to a large extent. Now an ADB loan is used for infrastructure development like say laying of roads.
Japanese cos. are given the contract for providing the raw material and equipment for the same like Mitsubishi Tar and Sumitomo cement and so on citing that Indian cos are below par for such raw material ( its a different matter that L & T cement is used in construction of airports in many countries )

Finally for the repayment of the loans, the Japanese Govt formally issues a soft loan to repay the ADB debt. In the larger scenario not only has the govt benefitted from this but Japanese cos also are benefitted in the longer run. So the money given out as loan by the govt reaches Japan through the Keiretsus.

A lot of this may not be available in the open to be proved but is definitely the source of speculation and thus may never be proved.

On reading Blindside such practices only come out in the open.

Overall, one of the best books i have read - both in fiction as well as non-fiction.

Brilliant analysis of a World beating economic system.......2002-02-24

Brilliant analysis of a World beating economic system
Reviewer: Patrick Walsh from Amsterdam, North Holland The Netherlands
Don't pay any attention to the detractors of this author.
He lives in Japan.
He has worked as a successful financial journalist around the world.
His correct forecasting of the Japanese economy is on record (e.g. Euromoney Magazine).
Has been widely praised (see two sites, unsustainable dot org and, fingleton dot net).
Check out the above dot org site for current articles from
this author.
You will be surprised at the articles on there that deal with the press, who widely report a slump in Japan that never seems to happen
- if Japan is in a slump, why such continued strong export performance in the hi-tech area?
Japan may have "crippling" debts, but you can be sure its not
foreign debt and,
therefore much less of a problem, unlike the USA which is burdened by a debt with a large foreign component.
Fingleton rightly points out in this book that the Japanese economy cannot be understood
without looking at it in terms of a big picture.
Read the content on the above sites, think a little,
read this book and, his more recent work "In Praise of Hard Industries" and, you will be a lot farther along the road to understanding where the World economy is going.

Brilliant analysis of a World beating economic system.......2002-02-24

Brilliant analysis of a World beating economic system
Reviewer: Patrick Walsh from Amsterdam, North Holland The Netherlands
Don't pay any attention to the detractors of this author.
He lives in Japan.
He has worked as a successful financial journalist around the world.
His correct forecasting of the Japanese economy is on record (e.g. Euromoney Magazine).
He has been widely praised (see two sites, unsustainable dot org and, fingleton dot net).
Check out the above dot org site for current articles from
this author.
You will be surprised at the articles on there that deal
with the press, who widely report a slump in Japan that
never seems to happen.
If Japan is in a slump, why such continued strong export performance in the hi-tech area?
Japan may have "crippling" debts, but you can be sure
its not foreign debt and,
therefore much less of a problem, unlike
the USA which is burdened by a debt with
a large foreign component.
Fingleton rightly points out in this book that
the Japanese economy cannot be understood
without looking at it in terms of a big picture.
Read the content on the above sites, think a little,
read this book and, his more recent work
"In Praise of Hard Industries" and, you will
be a lot farther along the road to understanding
where the World economy is going.

this one has not aged gracefully.......2001-09-18

In the late 1980s and early 1990s a number of journalistic books appeared which purported to explain how Japan was eating our lunch. "Blindside" is typical of the genre.

These books tended to be based on simplistic anecdote-based economics. Their starting point was Japan's strong postwar economic growth (exagerrated by Japan's asset price bubble of the late 1980s). They uncritically ascribed this to Japan's unique economic institutions or "the Japan model" and then extrapolated forward.

The subtitle of the book "why Japan is still on track to overtake the U.S. by the year 2000" hints that by the time this book was published in 1995 that something was going wrong. Indeed, by 1995, it was apparent to close watchers of the Japanese economy that something was seriously amiss, putting cheerleaders like author Eamonn Fingleton on the defensive. This one was past its "sell by" date the day it was published.

The intervening years have not treated Japan or this book gently. Rather than overtaking the U.S., Japan's economic performance between 1990-2000 was the worst decanal performance exhibited by any industrial country in the postwar period.

This book provides only inadvertant insight into why things went right in Japan for an extended period of time and then began going horribly wrong beginning around 1990.

this guy knows Japan.......2000-02-12

for anyone wishing to understand the Japanese economy and the people that make up that economy, this is the book. Fingleton gets beneath the surface-view of Japan that so many Westerners use to describe the country. those who label Fingleton as alarmist or racist follow the lead of typical Japanese thinking that equates criticism of the government's policies with anti-Japanese sentiment.

Fingleton has a deep respect for the Japanese government's ability to manipulate both its own citizens and the U.S. in order to strengthen its economy. The premise of the book is to reveal the mindset of the Japanese government and people so that Americans can better understand how they are viewed by Japanese and respond more adroitly to the challenges of the ever-expanding U.S.-Japan relations.

The most interesting part of the book are the 40 pages devoted to the history of U.S.-Japan relations in the chapter "The Will to Win".

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Navy intelligence officer Neal Olen finds himself a pawn of both the author,a woman with whom he had an affair and who hopes to promote her book and the Navy eager to demonstrate zero tolerance of sex scandals.

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Quick but shallow.......2003-02-06

Navy Commander Neal Olen, now retired, has a great wife and an important civilian job, but he made one slip four years ago, a one night stand with a seductive novelist, Angela Vance. Now Angela has cast him as a character in her tell-all novel, Navy Wench, and it's all there -- including that night. Neal is called back on active duty to face charges of adultery and "conduct unbecoming a gentleman" -- leaking military secrets. Neal doesn't remember the secrets, but he certainly remembers that night, and he knows all about prison -- where he's headed if he doesn't get help. And help is? Lethajoy Beltower, lesbian and lawyer.

Though only 204 pages long, BLINDSIDE didn't grab me until page 73 -- a long wait. And while Jim Lane has crafted a couple of great characters, especially Lethajoy, his writing lacks poetry. Only one line sang to me in the whole book. The plot is rushed, barebones and shallow, and other than a couple of perfunctory paragraphs about Neal's childhood and father, we learn little about him. However, Lane obviously knows the Navy and its laws, and the middle chapters contain a handful of courtroom scenes smashing enough to draw the reader in completely, if only for a moment.

Other than a couple of close calls with death, BLINDSIDE offers few surprises and no suspense. However, if you're stuck in a waiting room or on an airplane and need something light to read for a couple of hours, this tiny navy novel might do the trick.

Olen must decide whether honesty is truly a virtue.......2002-10-09

Blindside by Jim R. Lane is the story of Neal Olen, a Navy commander who is summoned to military court on charges of adultery, "conduct unbecoming an officer", and of possible national security violations, when a woman he once had an affair with writes a scalding tell-all book. Caught between a ruthless military legal system, mounting attorney's fees, and with his own marriage on the line, Olen must decide whether honesty is truly a virtue when the court-martial has little mercy. Blindside is a powerfully written and compelling tale. ...

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Blindside
J. R. Carroll
Manufacturer: Allen & Unwin
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ASIN: 1741142067

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This raunchy page-turner features Shaun McCreadie, a young police detective who finds himself on the wrong side of the law and implicated in a brutal home invasion. When McCreadie is released from jail 11 years later he is determined to discover the nature of the crime that put him away. Armed with $2.8 million in ill-gotten gains and his police street smarts, McCreadie grapples with murderous former accomplices, corrupt old cop buddies, and the seductive wife of a prominent lawyer in his quest to find answers. His investigations reveal the nefarious activities of bent cops, drug dealing, framing, and murder. Elements of crime, justice, and illicit affairs combine to form an intricately plotted, tightly structured, intelligent, and sexy work of fiction.

New reporting law could blindside fronting deals. (proposed reporting law affects reinsurance transactions involving 'fronting' carriers): An article from: ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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New reporting law could blindside fronting deals. (proposed reporting law affects reinsurance transactions involving 'fronting' carriers): An article from: ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
L.H. Otis
Manufacturer: The National Underwriter Company
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00092WBLU
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on December 12, 1994. The length of the article is 735 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: A proposed reporting law will require reinsurance transactions involving a 'fronting' carrier to be reported in a company's 1995 annual statement blanks. Reinsurance transactions which have been ceded to a single reinsurer or a group of affiliated reinsurers must be reported. However, intercompany reinsurance transactions with affiliates, transactions with insurance groups engaged in joint underwriting activities which are subject to state oversight are exempt from the proposed law.

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Title: New reporting law could blindside fronting deals. (proposed reporting law affects reinsurance transactions involving 'fronting' carriers)
Author: L.H. Otis
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 12, 1994
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n50 Page: p1(2)

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FBI Thriller Series: The Cove, The Maze, The Target, The Edge, Riptide, Hemlock Bay, Eleventh Hour, Blindside, Blowout, Point Blank

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FBI Thriller Series: The Cove, The Maze, The Target, The Edge, Riptide, Hemlock Bay, Eleventh Hour, Blindside, Blowout, Point Blank
Catherine Coulter
Manufacturer: Jove
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Blindside hit sparks Sens-Sabres brawl.(Sports): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press

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Blindside hit sparks Sens-Sabres brawl.(Sports): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press
Gale Reference Team
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000NQD9JK
Release Date: 2007-02-23

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This digital document is an article from Winnipeg Free Press, published by Thomson Gale on February 23, 2007. The length of the article is 431 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Blindside hit sparks Sens-Sabres brawl.(Sports)
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Publication: Winnipeg Free Press (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 23, 2007
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Blindside: Why Japan Is Still Winning the Battle for Global Supremacy

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Blindside: Why Japan Is Still Winning the Battle for Global Supremacy
Eammon Fingleton
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