Sidney Sheldon’s After the Darkness
Tilly Bagshawe
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For Kerstin and Louis Sparr, with love.
Greed is right.Greed works.Greed clarifies, cuts through, and capturesthe essence of the evolutionary spirit.Greed, in all of its forms – greed for life, for money,for love, for knowledge – has marked theupward surge of mankind.
—Gordon Gekko, in Wall Street, 1987
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