The Power Broker: A Novel: 3 (Christian Gillette) - Softcover

Frey, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345480619 ISBN 13: 9780345480613

Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc., 2006

Synopsis

Exposing high-level governmental corruption, conspiracy, and murder has garnered plenty of attention for Christian Gillette, the young dynamo chairman of the famous New York private equity firm Everest Capital. Now the reputation he has built taking Everest to the top has been noticed beyond the boardrooms of high finance-by powerful people with potentially devastating agendas.

Christian's own attention is on Las Vegas, where he means to stake out a piece of the action by opening a new casino and launching an NFL franchise. But Sin City didn't get its nickname for nothing, and the mob soon makes it clear that Christian's company will have to pay if it wants to play in the nation's gaming capital. Christian has already taken on corporate pirates and cold-blooded assassins and lived to tell about it, but crossing the underworld could do more than just kill his brilliant career. It could crush his chance to fulfill his late father's political legacy.

Dynamic U.S. senator Jesse Ford is the odds-on favorite to make history as the first black president. And the man he wants beside him in the red-hot race for the White House is Christian Gillette. But Samuel Hewitt, a Texas mogul with billions to burn, has another fate in mind for Christian: to be part of a shadow organization, powered by wealth and bound by dark secrets that has manipulated the course of American history for generations.

As the pieces of Hewitt's plot fall into place, and a twisted chain of intrigue, treachery, blackmail, and death gets tighter and tighter, Christian realizes-maybe too late-that in a grudge match between kingmakers hell-bent on victory at all costs, he may be the last pawn sacrificed.

With The Power Broker, bestselling author Stephen Frey unleashes an ever-accelerating thriller that breaks the suspense barrier-and never stops.

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Review:

Praise for Stephen Frey

The Protégé

"When it comes to high-finance intrigue, this series continues to look good on the bottom line."
-Booklist

"Fast-paced thrilles, chills . . . The Protégé won't disappoint."
-San Antonio Express-News

The Chairman

"Vivid . . . fast-paced . . . If the story remained as riveting on screen as on paper, it could be a blockbuster."
-Newsweek

"Fast-moving, timely and possessed of a healthy cynicism . . . Businessmen will savor it on transcontinental flights."
-The Washington Post

Shadow Account

"Action-packed . . . Bookkeeping chicanery, insider trading, and other big-business conspiracies abound."
-The Wall Street Journal

"This is the sort of fiction that skates dangerously close to truth."
-Los Angeles Times

About the Author:

Stephen Frey is a managing director at a private equity firm. He previously worked in mergers and acquisitions at JP Morgan and as a vice president of corporate finance at an international bank in Manhattan. Frey is the bestselling author of The Protégé, The Chairman, Shadow Account, Silent Partner, The Day Trader, Trust Fund, The Insider, The Legacy, The Inner Sanctum, The Vulture Fund, and The Takeover. He lives in Florida.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0345480619
• ISBN 13: 9780345480613
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 416