The Center of the Action Author:Jerome Weidman Fast, funny, and realistic, a novel that is first-class Weidman on a subject-how we live-and a theme-the dark side of ambition-perfectly suited to his talent. — Explores the current American passion for business merger by examining, in hilarious and often terrifying detail, the takeover of an old syle publishing house by a new style financial wiz... more »ard.« less