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This story is called ‘Greed Will Kill You’ and it’s a business thriller.
The first main character is Steve. Steve is a businessman, he works as a troubleshooter for a big company, where he has to manage and solve different problems. After a problematic marriage he is now divorced. He doesn’t like to be on his own. Now he is on a business trip to Chicago. At the airport he meets a woman, who seems very impressive to him. He speaks to her shy and he realizes that the woman responds to his approach. The woman’s name is Natalie. She is on a holiday trip to Chicago, where she wants to visit her sister. Both enjoy their talk and they decide to sit next to each other while flying to Chicago. Steve buys two first class tickets for them.
While flying they also talk with each other. Natalie tells about her husband’s accident and Steve tells about his broken marriage. After landing in Chicago, Natalie gets a phone call from her sister. She hears that the children of her sister are have the chicken pox. So Natalie has to go to a hotel during her holidays. Steve recommends his hotel to her. They make an appointment for dinner. Later in the hotel Natalie calls her sister and tells her: “Everything works as planned.”
(summary by Ivonne)
Steve is a young man who was sent by his boss on a business trip. He’s a bit lonely at home but also sad because no one is there, waiting for him. He is divorced. At the airport, he watched the people, because he still has time. He meets Natalie, a young woman who wants to see her sister. They get into conversation. Natalie’s boyfriend / husband had an accident in which he was seriously injured and can not run. He is a roofer and fell from the roof because his boss had installed low-grade wood materials.
Steve would like to travel with her and buys her a ticket for the 1st Class. Natalie is delighted. The flight can begin. They talk … about their partners and children. Then they went to business, snoring a little. Will eventually perk up and they continue to talk. Once in Chicago, they agree to meet for dinner. (by Conny Heck)
Hallo,
Steve is a businessman who has to go on a business trip to Chicago. He is divorced. At the airport he meets Natalia. She wants to visit her sister. He sits down next to her and they talk. Because they have time before the flight, they go for a coffee. Nataly told Steve that she is married and her husband had an accident. During the conversation, they realize that they like to spend time with each other and therefore Steve buys two first class plane tickets so they can sit next to each other. They fly together to Chicago.
This is a business thriller with the title “greed will kill you”.
Steve is a businessman who wants to go to Chicago. He has been working too much and now he is going on a business trip and a mini-vacation. At the airport he meets a woman, her name is Natalie and she also wants go to Chicago to visit her sister. He is fascinated by her appearance and so he approaches her. She talks to him and tells him, that her husband has had an accident and he became an invalid. Because he needs a lot of medical care and she doesn’t have much money.
Steve buys two first class tickets for them and they are go on board. There they are talking which other about their lives and agree on a date for lunch together in Chicago. They have a meal on the plane and then Natalie falls asleep.
After the landing Natalie`s cell phone rings. Her sister informs Natalie, that her children have chicken pox and Natalie has to go stay at a hotel now.
In this thriller are Steve and Natalie.
Steve visit chicago for a business tripp. On the airport he meet Natalie. She is a young, beutifull woman.
They are very happy that they are spend a lot of time together. Natalie and Steve visit chicago. So Steve bougth two tickets at the first class for this fly. They told about there live.
Natalies husband is sick. He is a roofer and on the day he fell form the roof. The materials of the roof wasn’t
good. Steve live in divorce. His wife give out the money for a lot of clothers. Hether was a strange person
and Steve couldn’t live with her for the rest of your live.
When they arrive chicago Natalie called with her sister. The sister told her that the children have chicken pox and Natalie couldn’t sleep at your sister. Steve had booked a room at the hotel. Natalie will also booking a hotel for her holiday. Steve has the idea that she sleep in the even hotel. So they went to the hotel and hat lunch together.
Steve and Natalie get to know each other at the airport.
They start a conversation over a cup of coffee.
They have the same flight to Chicago. They exchange the tickets at the last moment so that they can sit together. In Chicago they arrange to meet for dinner.
The story begins with a man who is in airport and is going to fly to Chicago for a mini-trip. He looks quite alone and thinks about his divorce, his marriage. He thinks, his life is not so sad and it was maybe something good in his marriage. So, thinking about it and watching people near him suddenly he noticed a woman, sitting also alone with sadness in her face. He noticed also her expensive blue suit, even never looking at women’s clothing. He wanted to know why she looks so sad and decided to talk with her. Conversation was interesting for both, and they began to know more about each other. She was going to Chicago too but not with the first class as Steve. So, doesn’t what to let her go and buys for her a first class ticket. She is confused but agrees.
During the fight they learn more about each other. She tells, that has invalid husband, and Steve tells about his marriage and his wife. It seems that they understand each other very good. But hours going so fast that they don’t notice that they’re already in Chicago. Even there he doesn’t want to let her go without inviting her for a dinner. She agrees and leaves happy Steve. But in a hotel Natalie shows that she is not the person whom Steve can trust.
Diana
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