Cyrus Bull Tells How to Become a BILLIONAIRE: Money, love and revenge stirred with a barbed spoon [Paperback]

Richard Crissman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 3, 2004

Cyrus Bull is the high wire act of finance. He almost falls when reporter Chad Howell goads him into spilling his seven rules for becoming mega-rich. Bull's painfully chic wife wants to keep the rules a secret, but super salesman Fielding DuMont highjacks them.

Bull's rules work quite well, aside from ongoing blackmail, blitzed love affairs and murder. Everyone wants a simple thing: money! Well, except for Chad who just wants Bull to tell the truth.

The chase leads from Park Avenue to the golden coast of California. Will Chad learn from Cyrus or will it be the other way around?

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About the Author

Distinguished wit and bon vivant Richard Crissman has written for Money Magazine and various publications of the National Trust and the Potomac Institute. His offbeat novels are about how money corrupts people with power, self-indulgence and glamour. In How to Become a Billionaire, Crissman shares the secrets of making, keeping and managing vast fortunes.Crissman lives with his elegant wife in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where they moved from Santa Barbara, California. For more about the author, please go to www.richardcrissman.com.Other books by Richard Crissman available from iUniverse or your favorite bookseller are Tax Dodge and The Montecito Collection.

Product Details

• Paperback: 420 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (June 3, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595305458
• ISBN-13: 978-0595305452
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,973,297 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cyrus Bull, August 7, 2004

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This review is from: Cyrus Bull Tells How to Become a BILLIONAIRE: Money, love and revenge stirred with a barbed spoon (Paperback)

This is wicked fun. Greedy Cyrus bull is often bitten by his success. He marries Enid who has "everything but looks and personality." He nearly goes broke (on her fortune), before he figures how to beat the market.

Cyrus falls in love with an unattainable beauty and starts a lifelong feud with Fielding duMont who would be, "the best salesman on earth if he would ever learn what he was selling."

Bull makes three tries at taking over a Philadelphia bank before he gets it right, but finds that the bank's executive assistant, Ramona, who has perfect legs, is his partner as well as his mistress. Then he shorts the stock in a Mexican insurance company and finds himself in the home of its boss, who has been drowned. He comforts the gorgeous widow and solves the crime, blackmailing the murderer into the use of 50-million dollars of capital.

Later, in France, when duMont and his wife ask Cyrus to bail them out of a corporate acquisition that goes wrong, Cyrus sets a trap. Distracted by the ample charms of Joyce Ebbers he actually gives Fielding advice that, instead of landing him in an Italian jail, solves the problem. Cyrus is furious, and cuts off his affair with Joyce, complaining that her voice is right out of Duluth.

Finally, Cyrus admits that his fashion-plate second wife is, "like an ice cube, she is a wasting asset.'

Cyrus story pours out over when an inquisitive reporter asks too many questions, and is stunned when he finds something like the truth about himself and the reporter.

Sassy and brusque, this is a good read.