A seemingly coincidental meeting on an airplane flight between Peck O’Brien, President and CEO of Best American Building Products, Inc., and Petra Morgan, was not so coincidental after all. This brief interaction sets the stage for this intriguing and complex novel. There are many other interesting characters, with multiple motivations and entanglements, in this novel. S. Edward Lawrence, author of Out of Air, has developed a plot that engages the reader throughout his fictional story. In the preface, Mr. Lawrence discloses that he worked “twenty-five years in company service in an industry fraught with government regulations and hazmat liabilities.” His knowledge and expertise in dealing with these matters are certainly evident. The involvement of Board members, attorneys, and Peck’s administrative assistant are intricately interwoven into Peck’s main goal of keeping the corporation afloat. His friendships and corporate associations are intermixed, a common feature in the corporate world.

Out of Air is an intricate mosaic of many parts functioning together – not unlike the complicated world of large corporations. The author has captured the numerous factions that leaders of companies face. His writing style is succinct, and although there are many characters in the story, it is easy to follow each one, although some have secret identities. Sometimes, it is difficult to unravel who are the “good” guys vs. the “bad” guys – and that is the point of the story. This is both a thought-provoking and an entertaining novel, engaging the reader from beginning to end.

This person knows how to write. Couldn't put the book down.
A must read.

This book keeps your interest and is hard to put down. A must read!

My review of Out of Air in a word is - excellent! This is a story about the moral backbone of corporate America and how it is bent, twisted, and sometimes broken by the forces of good and evil. These forces play out on legal, financial, and ethical levels using a cast of characters who tell the story with just the right amount of intrigue and violence to keep you in "speed read" mode for the entire book! It has my highest recommendation.

Out of Air quickly pulls you into a world of corporate
compromise, espionage,and corruption. The characters are
well developed while heroes and villains redefine themselves in the gray areas of ethics and morality. Both an entertaining and thoughtful read.