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Dark Rainbow
by Donold Lourie, Donold K. Lourie
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation (2000-06)
ISBN: 0738802441
EAN: 9780738802442
Dewy Decimal #: 813
Paperback: 510 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: S06917-10980-35
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Very good overall condition. No writing, very tight binding. Ships same day or next in a bubble mailer. Enjoy.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
DARK RAINBOW is both mystery and love story. A conglomerate's purchase of the Rainbow reserve, believed to contain rich silver deposits, raises questions of fraud and murder. Scenes shift from Missouri mines to Cro-Magnon caves to Manhattan skyscrapers in an exploration of the impact of money and power on integrity andlove.
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Customer Reviews
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An Exceptionally Fine First Novel
Rating  (4)
Date: 2001-02-25
Donold Lourie has crafted a riveting story of America's business culture based on his own experience as a successful lawyer and corporate executive. He develops a remarkably well-defined and diverse cast of characters with sympathy and humor which reflect a particularly keen insight into human behavior. Many of the scenes in this tale of corruption, violence, and love are exquisite. One is amazed that this is a first novel and hopes for more.
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A Real Page-Turner
Rating (4)
Date: 2000-08-04
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
When an author combines a number of well-developed characters with an equal number of surprising turns of events, there one has a true page-turner. Lourie's descriptions of the science of mining beg comparison with Melville's encyclopedia of whaling. Well-written and fast-moving, this book deserves critical acclaim. "Bonfire of the Vanities" meets western individualism. Buy it! Read it!
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Great entertainment
Rating (4)
Date: 2000-07-16
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Dark Rainbow is a fast-paced novel that successfully combines mysteries of fraud and murder with the all-too human mysteries of love and passion. When Link Laneer discovers that his development of a revolutionary underground mining method may be forestalled by impending bankruptcy, his rage at the corporate powers who are about to destroy him and his stubborn, violent refusal to give up his dream, set the novel in motion. It is a story that sweeps readers from the pinnacles of corporate power (and greed), where the captains of New York banking are angling for control of the Rainbow Lake reserve, to the power-brokers and artists who create and manipulate the European and New York art worlds. The plot of this novel moves with deftness, ease, and clarity through the intricacies of these diverse worlds, worlds that are inhabited by a stunning array of richly described characters. In the process, the novel offers the kind of multi-textured story that made this reader, at any rate, wish for a long ocean voyage -- or a howling nor'easter -- anything that would have given me the excuse to keep turning pages and find out what happened next.
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Dark Rainbow
Rating (4)
Date: 2000-06-06
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
A very well written and exciting book by a first time author. Characters and settings are cetainly believable, and are obviosly drawn from the author's own wide life time experiences. Highly recommended.
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A Good Old-Fashioned Read
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-05-24
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Dark Rainbow is a fast-paced novel that successfully combines mysteries of fraud and murder with the all-too human mysteries of love and passion. When Link Laneer discovers that his development of a revolutionary underground mining method may be forestalled by impending bankruptcy, his rage at the corporate powers who are about to destroy him and his stubborn and sometimes violent refusal to give up his dream, set the novel in motion. It is a story that sweeps readers from the pinnacles of corporate power, where the captains of New York banking are angling for control of the Rainbow Lake reserve, to the power-brokers and artists who inhabit and manipulate the European and New York art worlds. The plot of this novel moves with deftness, ease, and clarity through the intricacies of these diverse worlds, carrying with it a stunning array of richly described characters. In the process, the novel offers the kind of multi-textured story that made this reader, at any rate, wish for a long ocean voyage -- or a howling nor'easter: something that would allow time for total immersion.
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