It was due to deceitful, and perhaps illegal, games played by corporate executives: diverting funds into secret partnerships, cooking the books to keep those deals secret, lying to investors and employees about the financial health of the company, while selling their own stock to make sure they wouldn't be hurt when the whole house of cards collapsed.
Could the mania for the Larsson books have entered a new phase that required a guide to a newly discovered secret message within the books?
One reason is that books like The Secret have become popular by claiming that merely focusing our thoughts on money can attract it to us.
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.
Shelf-loads of business-advice books claim to have hit upon the secret, while would-be innovation gurus dine out on speaking fees.
They are weakly regulated and thus are able to handle huge financial sums for parties who want to remain anonymous, moving money in and out of secret foreign-bank accounts and then on and off the books of legitimate companies in open commerce.
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Let me begin by revealing a personal secret: Between 1983 and 1994, I made a reputation writing books (including Searching for Bobby Fischer) and national magazine pieces about chess--indeed, I became lost in chess, blissfully addicted to writing about the personalities and intricacies of the royal game, much as many men become chess addicts.
It's no secret that Amazon and other digital book retailers track and store consumer information detailing what books are purchased and read.
Carrying on a venerable tradition of filmic archaeologists and adventurists such as Indiana Jones, the new Tintin film by Steven Spielberg, entitled "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn, " mixes the story-lines of several of Herge's books and follows Tintin and friends hunting for centuries-old treasure.
It is no secret to those who know us that we love to write, and try to make our blogs, books and Brand Keys notes worth reading.
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