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Cold Steel: The Multi-billion-dollar Battle for a Global Industry | 
 enlarge | Authors: Tim Bouquet, Byron Ousey
Publisher: Little, Brown
Category: Book
List Price: £20.00
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 10511
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0316027995
EAN: 9780316027991
ASIN: 0316027995
Publication Date: April 17, 2008
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Mittal's Epic Struggle for Control of European Steel September 19, 2008
Richard Gourlay (London)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
At a time when the emperors of Wall Street wealth creation are looking increasingly naked, Tim Bouquet and Byron Ousey's Cold Steel provides an inside glimpse of the work of a visionary long term industrial value creator, Lakshmi Mittal. In building the Mittal Steel empire, the émigré from Rajasthan in India has made a series of bold, long term bets on the reshaping of the global steel industry. None were bolder than his bid to buy Europe's establishment giant, Arcelor.
Cold Steel, captures the audacity of the bid, the lengths to which Europe's establishment at first closed ranks to repel the Indian raider and then folded under Mr Mittal's charming persuasion - and the frantic behind the scenes re-alignment of political and money interests coordinated by an army of PR and corporate finance advisers.
The book has it all. The undignified sight of old European money and influence trying to hang on beyond its time, the racist taunts and the inexorable sense that this was a deal that Mittal was always going to shepherd home.
While Cold Steel too briefly skates over the first 20 years of Mittal's rise in the steel business - surely there is a fascinating story still to be told there - Tim Bouquet and Byron Ousey have, in fact achieved the impossible. They have turned the gritty world of steel production and 20 year deals into a page turner ... an industrial equivalent of a bodice ripper ... and they have pieced together an extraordinary once in a lifetime fly on the wall account of a transaction that represents a changing of the guard.
A literary "Master Blaster!!! July 28, 2008
Jonathan Travellor (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Crash!! Bang!! Wallop!! In the best literary sense. The most exciting read I have had in decades and devoured in one reading session. Just goes to prove that fact will always surpass fiction given even literary presentation. What a thriller; at times I could hardly read fast enough I was so anxious to discover how the next twist in the drama unfolded. I did manage to contain my usual habit of skipping and reading the last page before I finished the first chapter. Full credit then for keeping this flighty reader constantly on track with the tightrope tenacity of the writing. The authors deserve sales of a million copies. To borrow from Mad Max - a real literary Master Blaster!!!
This years MUST read May 30, 2008
Miniharrington (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
All the ingredients of a thriller - exotic locations, powerful people, political intrigue but this has the added advantage of being true.
Hell of a Good Read May 26, 2008
John Duncan (London)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For a business book, it's a hell of a good read, written almost in the style of a thriller and makes what was an amazing, complex and elongated deal into a very readable & accessible story.
Fabulous Read May 17, 2008
Mr. Jaideep Mehta (St, Johns, Surrey, UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A compelling book that brings alive a complex and hazy M&A transaction. Totally amazing story. I thoroughly enjoyed it; read it in practically one long sitting! Wish they had shared some more of the skullduggery that went on and also thrown some more light on Aditya Mittal's role in the deal. Overall, superb book and great value for money
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