The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest

I feel that in this book, Bronson has humanized Silicon Valley to an extent. The main characters in this book are actually fleshed out characters and not stereotyped uber-geeks.

Some of the other reviewers said that the book glosses over the technical aspects of computers too much. I disagree. I don't think Bronson dumbed down the computer explanations as much as summarized them in normal language. Having a lot of technical info in this book would detract from the main thing, which is the story.

All in all, Bronson has written a fine book. The book has lots of twists and turns and is a page turned until the end.

"Andy Caspar is a lowly research engineer in Silicon Valley, but not for long if he can help it. His goal is to become an ""ironman"" -- the kind of guy who builds companies that change the world, like Apple, Netscape, Intel.
But right now he's at an outfit called Omega Logic, pouring his heart into a new project, without the slightest idea that his own dreams are irrelevant to the titanic power struggle raging a couple of levels above him on the corporate flowchart.
What happens to Andy Caspar is hilarious, brutal, absurd, outrageous, and mesmerizing -- as Po Bronson masterfully lays the computer industry open for all to see in the pages of this dazzling, utterly addictive novel."