Largo has disappeared. His friends and employees are trying to find him while they keep the W Group ticking, but no one seems to know what has happened to him not even the Chinese authorities. It will be up to the billionaire, locked in a cell with a corpse as his only companion, to escape on his own before he can begin reassessing who are his allies and who are his enemies.

20 seconds to tell the difference between friend and enemy, tochoose between life and death.Poor Largo is beside himself with worry. The lovely Saidee, with whom he’s fallen madly in love, hasvanished. In fact, she’s being held prisoner by a CIA agent who’d forced her to infiltrate a fundamentalistnetwork hell-bent on blowing Winch up – but which is actually being manipulated by a Russianbusinessman... Phew. Nothing is ever simple with Largo! How is he supposed to save his love, keep hisgroup going – while also staying alive, if at all possible?

"Largo Winch. No family, no connections, anti-establishment, womanizer, wanderer, iconoclast and fighter, he inherits at age 26 the W Group, which is worth $10 billion."--Back cover.

Largo has disappeared. His friends and employees are trying to find him while they keep the W Group ticking, but no one seems to know what has happened to him - not even the Chinese authorities. It will be up to the billionaire, locked in a cell with a corpse as his only companion, to escape on his own before he can begin reassessing who are his allies and who are his enemies.

With more than 100 new entries, from Amy Adams, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Cary Joji Fukunaga to Joaquin Phoenix, Mia Wasikowska, and Robin Wright, and completely updated, here from David Thomson—“The greatest living writer on the movies” (John Banville, New Statesman); “Our most argumentative and trustworthy historian of the screen” (Michael Ondaatje)—is the latest edition of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, which topped Sight & Sound’s poll of international critics and writers as THE BEST FILM BOOK EVER WRITTEN. 3/7

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