The First 20 Million Dollars Is Always the Hardest
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Published: July 7, 1997
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780436204708
Subjects: Modern fiction
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.