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YOU’VE FINISHED “Succession”. Where to get another fix of power grabs and power lunches? Worry not: here are four books and one podcast to satisfy your craving. They recount real-life succession battles and hostile takeovers. Their portrayal of business as a messy sport is one that Logan Roy would have recognised.  “Life is not knights on horseback,” the patriarch of “Succession” told his son. “It’s a number on a piece of paper. It’s a fight for a knife in the mud.”

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