The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: May 30, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780380816248
First sentence: Oh, God. No sooner had Francis Benoit started explaining to this reporter the difference between the ISA and PCI electrical standards when the reporter's head nods-customary cues that implied "Go on, I'm with you"-were replaced by this high-tempo bobbing and rocking motion that signaled that the reporter's brain had lost the train of thought and was spinning idly, frozen like a processor caught in an infinite loop.