BIRDS OF PREY, by Matthew Lynn

Matthew Lynn
Birds of Prey
Boeing Vs. Airbus: A Battle for the Skies
Updated and with a New Afterword

Now in paperback!

"It's not business, it's geo-industrial politics.… It's chess played on the world map, and the pieces are silvery 777s and A330s." — Associated Press

[Book Cover] From humble beginnings — fostered by the turn-of-the-century equivalent of garage tinkerers — the aviation industry has grown to become one of the most significant on the planet. In the United States, one corporation has emerged to claim almost total dominance of the vast market for jetliners: Boeing. And Boeing held sway over its territory virtually unchallenged for decades, until the rise of the European Airbus consortium.

Birds of Prey is the story of an industry now essential to heavily developed nations. It is a paradigm of business, the ongoing story of the struggle between two forces of international commerce. And it tells how, by manipulation both overt and covert, the battling giants marshall their various resources to achieve their ends: more orders for their factories.

Matthew Lynn writes for the London Sunday Times and has worked as a financial analyst for the Financial Times in London and with Asiaweek in Hong Kong. He lives in London.

$14.95 | paperback
ISBN: 1-56858-107-6 | 256 pp.
Nonfiction | Business | US rights

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