Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and ...

"A muscular, enthralling read that takes you back to a time when two titans of industry, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, clashed in a battle of wills and egos that had seismic ramifications not only for themselves but for anyone living in the United States, then and now. . . . So engaging I found myself wishing only that it were longer." -Dennis Lehane, author ofiShutter Island/iandiMystic River/ibrbr"This superbly researched and beautifully written account of the expression of business genius a century ago illumines both the sociopathy and the generosity that then as now characterize the dynamics of capitalism." -Robert A. G. Monks, principal of Lens Governance Advisors and coauthor ofiCorporate Governancebr/ibr"Les Standiford's novelistic genius brings alive the familiar story of Carnegie and Frick with clarity and verve and a fresh eye. . . . The most dazzling aspect of this dazzling book is the author's clear and engaging depictions of the intricacies of the business world of another century." -James W. Hall, author ofiForests of the Night/iLes Standiford is the author of the critically acclaimediLast Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean/i, as well as ten novels, most recentlyiHavana Run/i. Recipient of the Frank O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, he is director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University in Miami, where he lives with his wife and three children. bChaptet 1: GAUNTLET/bbrbrOn a late spring day in 1919, so the story goes, only weeks before the Treaty of Versailles put an end to a war that had threatened the very fabric of civilization, one of America's wealthiest men-his holdings valued at more than $100 billion in today's dollars-sat up in his sickbed in his Manhattan home and called to one of his c