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In December 2008 at the height -- or nadir -- of the financial crisis and at a time of massive bloodletting in the publishing industry I got lucky and sold my first novel Kapitoil to HarperCollins (NWS). Perhaps I owed something ironically to the very recession that made selling novels so difficult: The story is set in the New York financial industry in 1999 revolving around a computer program that predicts oil futures and a Muslim protagonist who narrates in a hybridized American business-jargon voice. All anyone could talk about then -- and now for that matter -- was ...

Editor's Note: Welcome to Love It or Hate It a regular dual-column feature that will capture the love-hate relationship America has with some of its biggest most controversial companies. For past columns click here. For the opposing view on this company see Google: Snobby Sanctimonious Loathsome.Big business has begotten some truly despicable characters both fictional and factual: Bernie Madoff J.R. Ewing Henry Clay Frick Ebeneezer Scrooge to name just a few. To think of the heads of some of the biggest corporations in the world is to conjure the image of greedy white men denying personal vacation time to ...