A review by jeremyhornik
The Business by Iain Banks

3.0

Woman who works for a massive and secret business that controls much of the world's wealth gets into buying a company, while investigating some corporate shenanigans and being mildly sad about her empty love life (but vigorous sex life). The whole book is sort of about compromise. The prose style is unfortunately in that sort of benignly clever British thing that starts (brilliantly) with P.G. Wodehouse... but has the effect of draining the tension from thrillers in jokey asides.