The Bird That Flies Highest

By Brad Johnson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887750991
• ISBN13: 9781887750998
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Netsource Dist Services
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended reading

This is one of the best books I've read in 2000. It is fast paced and very modern, capitvating, and entertaining. I could not put it down. This book does not lull the mind, yet it is very pleasing. It is well put together.

An exciting look into the future of the global market.

Brad Johnson will take you along for an action packed week in September, 2013. In a story of a global corporation trying to increase their market share, we see what lenghts the CEO of AZI-GROUP will go to achieve this goal. An international figure disappears and the search is on to find out why. AZI-GROUP's reporters fly across the globe trying to get answers and ratings. The more they learn, the more complex and exciting the story becomes. This isn't a simple little conspiracy, but a series of little ones to the end with big results.The story provides a thought provoking look to the next phase, virtual corporations, of international mergers. Today we see "mega-mergers" within sectors of the market, this is the next level when the different sectors of the market begin to merge. How much input will they have in our daily lives?While the story is set in the future, it's only 15 years away which means the foundation for that future is being set now. The way this story is woven, it makes it feel like it could become reality.

The Thinking Man's Suspense Novel

Philisophical discussions about what the future may bring are often uninteresting and implausible. Johnson is able to present a novel that truly makes you think about what the next 20 years will bring, treating philosophical topics in an interesting, fast paced mystery novel that is difficult to put down. The references to the types of technology that may be available are believable. Excellent story line. Fast paced. Interesting characters. On top of the great suspense, it gives the reader something to think about throughout.

Umberto Eco Meets Alan Greenspan and James Bond

A thought-provoking and enticing work that seems to raise more questions than manufacture answers, subtle and complex issues in philosophy, sociology, ethics, and even mysticism are explored in engaging and concrete ways. In the tradition of Umberto Eco's "The Name of The Rose," and Hermann Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game," Johnson carves out a post-modern morality tale in sharp relief without ever lapsing into purple prose or speculative jibberish. Kant once remarked that "concepts without percepts are empty, and percepts without concepts are meaningless." Similarly, Johnson's work underscores and achieves an organic and dialectical balance between philosophy and narrative: both need each other lest they wax empty or meaningless. Be prepared to read the novel in a relatively short time, but to think about and digest its subtle and multifaceted implications for a very long time.