Never Enough - Softcover

McGinniss, Joe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1476726191 ISBN 13: 9781476726199

Publisher: Gallery Books, 2012

Synopsis

At thirty-nine, Nancy Kissel had it all: glamour, gusto, garishly flaunted wealth, and the royal lifestyle of the expatriate wife. Not to mention three young children and what a friend described as "the best marriage in the universe". That marriage - to Merrill Lynch and former Goldman Sachs investment banker Robert Kissel - ended abruptly one November night in 2003 in the bedroom of their luxury apartment high above Hong Kong's glittering Victoria Harbour. Why? Hong Kong prosecutors, who charged Nancy with murder, said she wanted to inherit Rob's millions and start a new life with a blue-collar lover who lived in a New Hampshire trailer park. She said she'd killed in self-defense while fighting for her life against an abusive, cocaine-addicted husband who had forced her for years to submit to his brutal sexual demands. Her 2005 trial, lasting for months and rich in lurid detail, captivated Hong Kong's expatriate community and attracted attention worldwide. Less than a year after the jury of seven Chinese citizens returned its unexpected verdict, Rob's brother, Andrew, a Connecticut real estate tycoon facing prison for fraud and embezzlement, was also found dead: stabbed in the back in the basement of his multimillion-dollar Greenwich mansion by person or persons unknown. Never Enough is the harrowing true story of these two brothers, Robert and Andrew Kissel, who grew up wanting to own the world but instead wound up murdered half a world apart; and of Nancy Kissel, a riddle wrapped inside an enigma, a modern American woman for whom having it all might not have been enough. In this singularly compelling narrative, Joe McGinniss - past master at exposing the dark heart of the American family in the bestsellers Fatal Vision, Blind Faith, and Cruel Doubt - explores his darkest and most disturbing subject yet: a smart and beautiful family so corroded by greed that it destroys itself from within. Here is a family saga

About this title

Review:

"It's riveting and compulsively readable...McGinniss patiently unravels the case with plenty of fresh reporting..."

-"Entertainment Weekly"

"This is a mesmerizing tale, with more twists and turns than most steamy crime novels. The irony of two wasted lives makes this cautionary tale perfect reading for a chilly autumn evening."

-"Tucson Citizen"

"McGinniss brilliantly deconstructs the highly dysfunctional Kissels...you can't argue with his ability to tell a good story. Readers of "Never Enough" get front-row seats to someone else's family horror fest."

-"USA Today"

"In McGinniss's compelling account, the Kissel family -- full of potential but riven by endless battles among the brothers and their sister and father -- represent the American tragedy in which ambition and the pursuit of wealth turn deadly."

-"Publishers Weekly"

"Readers have a real treat waiting for them in Joe McGinniss's latest book."

-"Washington Post Book World"

"McGinniss...makes it absorbingly believable."

-"New York Daily News"

About the Author:

Joe McGinniss (1942-2014) was an American journalist, nonfiction writer, and novelist. He first came to prominence with the bestselling The Selling of the President, which described the marketing of then-presidential candidate Richard Nixon. It spent more than six months on bestseller lists. He is popularly known for his trilogy of bestselling true crime books--Fatal Vision, Blind Faith, and Cruel Doubt--which were adapted into several TV miniseries and movies. Over the course of forty years, McGinniss published twelve books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1476726191
• ISBN 13: 9781476726199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392