Greg O'Brien

Law and Disorder

Tom Foley's mind was on baseball. He had just slid onto a comfortable sofa on a gracious Sunday afternoon in the resort community of Clearwater, Florida, to watch a televised Tampa Bay Devil Rays spring training game with his father…

The Lost Boys

The small bedroom to the left of the staircase, with its dark green walls and stained gray carpet, is suffocating. It's the size of a large closet, but that's not the only thing about it that would make a visitor…

Repo Man

An eerie haze has settled over Salem. The sky is a depressing gray, there's a bone-chilling damp to the air, and a biting northeast wind is hurling litter and dead leaves around like a commercial blower. As we drive the…

The Next Tycoon

The morning mist off Lake Winnipesaukee was rising gently toward the clear Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, sky as a select group of corporate executives gathered on the sweeping lakeside estate of Paul Montrone, chairman and CEO of Fisher Scientific International, a…