Stephen Frey, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-44326-7
Veteran financial thriller writer Frey (Trust Fund; Day Trader; etc.) returns with another novel of greed and intrigue set in the back corridors of finance. Angela Day, an up-from-the-trailer-park young executive on the fast track at Sumter Bank in...
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Stephen Frey, Author Ballantine Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-48064-4
A less than credible scenario undermines this stand-alone thriller from bestseller Frey (The Power Broker). Michael Rose, chief financial officer for Trafalgar Industries, wants to acquire CIS (Computer Information Systems), which provides its...
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Stephen Frey, Author BBC Audiobooks America $37.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57270-504-3
The mob and a disgruntled competitor are trying to kill Christian Gillette, the charismatic, good-looking and wildly successful chairman of Everest Capital, a multibillion-dollar private equity firm. He's got government spooks trying to use one of...
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Stephen Frey, Author Ballantine Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-42829-5
Family political aspirations lead to corporate collusion with a rogue cadre of U.S. congressional and intelligence agents bent on co-opting the resources of the Internet and the military industrial complex in this high-octane conspiracy thriller....
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Stephen Frey, Author Dutton Books $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-94207-8
Cole Egan is watching a hitherto unknown tape of the JFK assassination, shot from the other side of Dealey Plaza. "" `God,' Cole murmured. It was shocking footage, so shocking he almost forgot the seven-million-dollar hit his portfolio had taken in...
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Stephen Frey, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-94206-1
The far-reaching clout of the military-industrial complex doesn't daunt the female IRS agent who is the protagonist of Frey's (The Vulture Fund) fast-paced third thriller. A time-delayed e-mail sent by her IRS boss after his murder urges Jesse Hayes
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Stephen Frey, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-525-93986-3
More than one reviewer of his first novel (The Takeover) dubbed investment banker Frey the Grisham of financial thrillers. The comparison holds for Frey's second: the characters clatter like wooden puppets, and the prose wobbles between the...
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Stephen Frey, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-93985-6
Investment banking becomes a weapon of insurrection in this face-paced debut thriller. Menaced by the spread-the-wealth policies of a popular, liberal U.S. president (particularly his proposed 90% inheritance tax), The Sevens, a secret society of...
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Stephen Frey, Author Signet Book $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-18479-5
An investment banker finds himself sucked into an intrigue that stretches from the jungles of Latin America to the septic sloughs of Washington, D.C. (May)
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Stephen Frey, Author Signet Book $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-18478-8
Corporate financier Frey's debut novel concerns a secret society of powerful businessmen who attempt to engineer a large-scale economic disaster to topple the President. (July)
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Stephen Frey, Atria, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4967-3
The plot of this stand-alone crime thriller from Frey (Hell's Gate) fails to generate much excitement, despite a gruesome murder that may be the work of a satanic cult and scenes set during a crippling snowstorm. Wisconsin sheriff Paul Summers,...
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Stephen Frey, Author . Atria $24.95 (326p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4963-5
Known for his financial thrillers, Frey (The Takeover
) mixes baseball and crime in his less than compelling 15th novel. Arthritic, 63-year-old Jack Barrett, who lives with his grown daughter in Sarasota, Fla., where he bags groceries at a...
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Stephen Frey, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (283p) ISBN 978-0-345-48062-0
Christian Gillette, the hero of Frey's timely thriller, which centers on the possible death of Fidel Castro, runs a huge private investment firm, Everest Capital, but finds lots of time to plunge into politics and international adventure when...
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Stephen Frey, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-345-48060-6
Murder, global conspiracy, treason, blackmail, sexual infidelity and perversity propel bestseller Frey's entertaining, if highly implausible, third financial thriller starring Christian Gillette (after 2005's The Protégé
)....
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Stephen Frey, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (313p) ISBN 978-0-345-48058-3
Christian Gillette's second outing in financial thrillerland finds Chris heading Manhattan-based investment firm Everest Capitol after his boss was murdered in the series debut, The Chairman
. Everest is a huge success, as is Chris, though...
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Stephen Frey, Author . Ballantine $21.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-45760-8
Diminished by dull prose, but distinguished by colorful, well-drawn characters and an arresting, labyrinthine plot, this 10th novel by Frey (after Silent Partner
) illuminates the machinations of big business and high finance. Frey introduces...
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Stephen Frey, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-45758-5
Frey's latest pecuniary adventure follows his formula of extremely complicated plots spun around illegal, high-level financial shenanigans. He's used it with variations before (The Takeover
; The Legacy
; The Insider
; etc.), and despite...
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Stephen Frey, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-44324-3
The title and cover may suggest an intriguing look at the financial world's quick-hit specialists, but the latest from the bestselling Frey (Trust Fund; The Insider; etc.) is little more than a clumsily executed murder mystery with day trading...
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Stephen Frey, read by Michael McConnohie, BBC Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 10 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-60-998059-7
Neither this crime novel’s setting—a rural Wisconsin town consisting of arrogant, wealthy weekenders and impoverished locals—nor its protagonist (the self-involved, brooding Sheriff Paul Summers) gives Michael McConnohie much to work with in terms...
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Deon Meyer, read by Simon Vance, HighBridge Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 11.5 hours, $34.95 ISBN 978-1-61573-544-0
Simon Vance provides an assortment of authentic-sounding Afrikaans accents (think Scottish with a Germanic edge) for this first-class thriller that manages to include South African history and musings on apartheid and the environment without losing...
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