Self-styled physicist Dr. Abdul Abdan is an expert in flattery. He cons Chairman Bud Lightfoot of the powerful Fuels Agency to gamble for "your date with destiny." The gamble hits the jackpot: captivity in the Alps, ruined romance, murder - tangled in a true tale of government deception. The public doesn't win. "Ruthless federal bureaucrats stop at nothing to fire underlings and revive the zeppelin industry in this farcical thriller. "One harebrained scheme after another moves the lurching narrative forward.... "There's a splash of dirigible lore, but it's the novel's stagy, anachronistic...

A thousand banks imploded after Bank of America took them over, infecting them with disastrous risk. Robust enterprises gasped for bailout billions after diseased AIG seized them, breathing its virus. We learn takeover empires are defenseless against viral contamination. The viral catastrophes of 2008 began with the takeover schemes "The Acquisitors" documents--schemes for subverting natural competition. The schemers plead for more regulations to stack onto failed regulations to hold their takeover empires together--and further evade competition. The documents describe anticompetitive horrors...