Under the Dome Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2010) was just a faltering arcade

was just a faltering arcade company with big aspirations and even bigger personalities

with a personal

Her lively narrative is interwoven with colorful stories of diplomatic adventures and misadventures--including details of high-level backchannel conversations

about the day that changed his life forever

Under the Dome Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2010) was just a faltering arcadeOn an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as 'the dome' comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet, teams up with a few