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Synopsis
Ben Roselli, president of First Mercantile American Bank and grandson of the founder, makes the shocking announcement that he s dying. With no offspring to inherit the company, Roselli knows that executive VPs Roscoe Heyward and Alex Vandervoort are the obvious candidates to succeed him. Heyward, who has been with First Mercantile for two decades, will do whatever it takes to bring in new clients and win the coveted presidency. Vandervoort, a newcomer from the Federal Reserve with a left-wing girlfriend, advocates for a socially responsible plan of growth. And now the discovery of counterfeit cash and credit card fraud threatens the future of the bank itself. From the day-to-day business dealings to the inner sanctums of the money trading center and the boardroom, Hailey s novel is a riveting tale of ambition, greed, and the US banking system.
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The Moneychangers first demonstrated to me what a novel could do... It was the book that really made me love novels... It is still utterly absorbing. --Philip Hensher, The Guardian
One of the most successful novelists of all time. --New York Times
When the penny drops in a crisis-torn US bank the flip side of the coin ain't pretty for an honest money-maker. --The Times
About the Author
Arthur Hailey, whom the New York Times has called one of the most successful novelists of all time , scored an overnight triumph with his first book, Flight into Danger, written with John Castle, and has gone on to write a further nine blockbusters, among them Airport, Hotel Wheels, The Evening News and Detective. They have been translated into 34 languages, with an estimated 150 million copies in print at the present time, and most of them have become equally successful films. From his beginnings as an office boy, Hailey served during the war in the RAF, rising through the ranks to become a pilot and flight lieutenant.
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- PublisherUlverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 085456568X
- ISBN 13 9780854565689
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages377
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. lagship" branch. It is Edwina, aided by Miles Eastin- a young bank staffer with peculiar problems- who first uncovers a trail of crime, leading to The Moneychangers' exciting and suspenseful climax." (illustrator). Book Club Edition. Viewed from outside, First Mercantile American Bank- among America's top twenty- seems a cathedral of respectability, as sound and solid as Fort Knox. It's the kind of bank where the public deposits money confidently, perhaps the kind of bank in which your life savings are now. Yet within FMA are corruption, double dealing, incompetence. Roscoe Heyward, executive vice president-astute and ruthless- is locked in a power struggle with Alex Vandervoort, whose attention to banking is diluted by the tragic insanity of his young wife, Celia, and by his mistress, Margot Bracken, an activist lawyer and controversial public figure. Yet Alex is the bank's conscience, opposing policies which are rooted in greed, imperiling the bank and its trusting depositors. Manipulating FMA's board of directors to his selfish advantage is powerful G.G. (Big George) Quartermain, chairman of Supranational Corporation, an international giant. Big George's fiefdom includes a Caribbean mansion, airborne luxury, and gorgeous women- among them, Avril, a cheerful seducer, in whose person sex and banking meet. At another banking level is Edwina D'Orsey, the wise, sophisticated manager of FMA's "flagship" branch. It is Edwina, aided by Miles Eastin-a young bank staffer with peculiar problems-who first uncovers a trail of crime, leading to The Moneychangers; exciting and suspenseful climax. In between are fascinating glimpses into the world of money.Credit cards-the big-business pressures behind them, and their perils for the unwary; why bank money-traders "wear out" fast; "insider" financial newsletters-how they help the rich get richer; why U.S. currency is the easiest to counterfeit; how interlocking directorships cheat the public; some unpalatable truths about inflation; how prestigious institutions, apparently sound, can crash in ruins, suddenly.and more, much more. Seller Inventory # 000785
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