Steven Paul Mark

Steven Paul Mark


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 Steven Paul Mark has been in the practice of Entertainment and Media Law for over thirty years. About half of that time has been spent as an executive in the legal and business affairs departments of such major entertainment entities as William Morris Agency, Home Box Office and MTV Networks. He designed the business affairs departments at HBO for original and sports programming and Comedy Central and created some of the early deal architecture for Nickelodeon's original productions. As a practicing attorney he has represented such clients as George Carlin, John Douglas, Rich Little, Life Magazine, the founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, JP Kids, Maternal Fitness, a Merchant-Ivory development fund, Sam Shepard, Home Box Office, Kultur International Films, the Howard Stern Show, Jump the Shark and many others.

Currently, Steven's practice includes a wide variety of clients in traditional areas such as film, television and publishing as well as an active client list in new technologies such as HDTV, wireless, broadband TV and Internet matters.

 

 

Drift

Steven Paul Mark
Booklocker.com (2006)
ISBN 1601450621
Reviewed by Cherie Fisher for Reader Views (1/07)

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Synopsis: It's raining in the Sahara, snowing in Sydney and a pea soup fog blankets Beijing.
 
In New York City, it s October but it feels more like an August heat wave and ex-marine Max LaFollette needs a job. When fate throws him a discarded inter-office memo advising that some guy named Bran is about to be terminated by Imperium Solutions, a powerful, enigmatic oil company, Max seizes the opportunity to get his foot in the door. What he doesn't realize is that Bran is not to be let go, but exterminated, and the mention of his name is enough to get his apartment ransacked, his wife killed and his own life in grave danger.
 
With nowhere to run and the NYPD and FBI entering the chase, Max joins
forces with a homeless man and his strange subterranean community.
Together with a Caltech scientist they encounter, they mount a relentless
struggle that rages from the subterranean bowels of Manhattan to the
hallowed halls of Washington power to the desolate landscape of Chechnya.
 
While catastrophic weather, melting polar ice caps, devastating earthquakes and tsunamis support the Global Warming cause, Imperium Solutions  secret and reckless drilling agenda is altering the planet s balance. With Washington turning a deaf ear, Max and his associates are the only ones who can stop Imperium s nefarious plans. But are they in time? The geologic clock is ticking...