Coronet Books
October 2004
On Sale: October 11, 2004
Featuring: Trevor Barnett; Anne Kimball; Paul Trainer
464 pages ISBN: 0340734302 EAN: 9780340734308 Trade Size Add to Wish List
Through an inexplicable series of unwanted promotions,
Trevor Barnett has become the lead spokesman for the
tobacco industry just as it's on the verge of extinction.
Plaintiff's attorneys have finally found the weakness
they'd been searching for and filed a $200 billion lawsuit
that the industry will be unable to appeal.
America's tobacco companies react by doing the unthinkable—
they close their plants and recall their product from
retailer's shelves. Trevor is charged with going on
national television and making the announcement: Not
another cigarette will be manufactured or sold until the
industry is given ironclad protection from the courts.
As the economy falters and chaos takes hold, Trevor
becomes the target of enraged smokers, gun-toting
cigarette smugglers, and a government that has been cut
off from one of its largest sources of revenue. Soon it
becomes clear that this had always been his function—to
take the brunt of the backlash and shield the men in power
from the maelstrom they'd created.
Abandoned by his friends, his family, and the industry his
own ancestors helped build, Trevor finds an unlikely ally
in a beautiful anti-tobacco lobbyist who he's secretly
loved for years. Together they hatch a plan to fight
back...
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