The target
Subtitle: love, death and airline deregulation
By: J.R. Hauptman
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Xlibris
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Philadelphia, PA?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781436309356; 9781436309349
Subjects: Airlines; Fiction; Deregulation; Air pilots; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: Novel set in the late nineteen-eighties recounting first years of airline deregulation and the effects it had on that industry and its employees. Corporate raider Carlo Clemenza is the chief villain of the piece. He uses junk bonds, uncompromising Soviet styled negotiation tactics, sham bankruptcies and ruthless abrogation of union contracts to crush competing airlines and to bring airline workers to heel. His methods earn him countless death threats. Thousands of professional pilots find themselves compelled to start their careers over or with no careers at all. One pilot decides to take direct action and makes Clemenza "The target." But his pursuit of the well protected Clemenza makes him a target in turn.