Blonde Ambition - Softcover

Phillips, Samantha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 009964911X ISBN 13: 9780099649113

Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

Charlotte Christie is under no illusion about her job: at Fitzgerald Denton greed is good and you watch your back. But as she learns to handle the jokes and the backstabbing and prove her worth as a broker. Charlie unearths a scam. Almost untraceable, it could strike a deathblow to Lloyd's of London and bring the government to its knees. By avoiding Charlie, her opponents have made their single mistake. She has one chance to strike back.

About this title

About the Author:

Samantha Phillips was born in Derbyshire, is a graduate of the University of London and has a Masters from the Sorbonne in Paris. Following a background in ship broking and advertising in Paris she joined Lloyd's in 1989, employed by Willis Faber & Dumas as a broker in their aviation division. In November 1992 she left Willis Faber and began legal action against the company. Two weeks later she published the first edition of Inside Eye, a magazine that revealed what went on behind the scenes at Lloyd's. After a two-year struggle she won a highly publicised court case against her former employers. Samantha Phillips lives in London and now writes full time.

Synopsis:

A thriller featuring big-city dealing, high living, sex and power. Natasha Christie, blonde and beautiful, enters the old-school network of Lloyd's determined to scale the City's highest peaks of power. But she discovers its foundations are rotten to the core with vice and fraud.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 009964911X
• ISBN 13: 9780099649113
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272