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Silent Partner [Hardcover]

Stephen Frey (Author)
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January 14, 2003 Frey, Stephen
In the world of high finance, it s all about risk and return. With big risks come big rewards . . . and even bigger dangers. And no one knows this better than Stephen Frey. From the New York Times bestselling author of Trust Fund and The Day Trader comes an electrifying new thriller of money, mayhem, and murder.

Angela Day has survived a rough past from a hard-scrabble childhood scarred by the tragic deaths of her father and best friend, to losing custody of her only child to her adulterous ex-husband and his powerful family. But despite it all, at thirty-one, she s carved out a good career with Sumter Bank one of Richmond, Virginia s most venerable institutions. And now, summoned under mysterious circumstances to meet one of the world s richest entrepreneurs, it looks as if Angela may be on the threshold of a brighter future.

If you help me, I ll help you. This is Jake Lawrence s offer to Angela. A stock-holder in Sumter Bank, the reclusive multibillionaire is planning a takeover of a hot, new company and he wants Angela to apply her considerable skills and charms to make sure it all goes smoothly . . . and secretly. In exchange, Lawrence promises to use his formidable influence to permanently reunite Angela with her son.

For Angela, it s the one reward for which she would risk everything. And accepting Jake Lawrence s deal will mean doing just that, as his mind-boggling wealth and power come with the ultimate price tag: enemies everywhere have marked him for death. And anyone close to him is fair game.

Now, as Angela prepares to broker the deal of her career, she s stalked by foes on every front. Then, after stumbling on evidence of an insidious conspiracy within her own company, she becomes a target for termination. Armed with the most volatile kind of inside information, Angela has the power to bring the dirtiest players down from the highest places. But they have the power to strike first at the one thing most precious to Angela.

Silent Partner reaffirms Stephen Frey s reputation as a master of page-turning suspense in the world of big-money movers and shakers where everyone has a price, and there s more than one way to make a killing.


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Financial chicanery is Stephen Frey's forte, and in his newest thriller (following The Insider and The Day Trader), he sets up one of the world's richest men and a young bank executive, who's trying to wrest custody of her son from her well-connected ex-husband, in a sting operation to expose blatant racism in the mortgage practices of a big Virginia financial institution. Angela Day, whose African American college roommate died in her arms after a racially motivated attack, is a gutsy and appealing woman whose life is turned upside down when she gets involved with Jake Lawrence, a billionaire with his own reasons for wanting to expose the corruption at the core of the bank that employs her. When he offers her the chance to get her son back, she plunges into a world of double-dealing where nothing and no one are what they seem and everyone's motives are suspect. Some of the coincidences strain credulity, and the characters are too one-dimensional to care about, but Frey makes the most of his convoluted plot and wraps up the details with an unexpected love story. --Jane Adams

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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 Richmond, Va., is summoned to a Tetons hideaway, lair of the reclusive and powerful moneyman Jake Lawrence. Lawrence wants Day to help him take over Sumter Bank and oust Day's boss, chairman Bob Dudley. There is no love lost between Day and the despicable racist Dudley, who schemes to keep blacks out of white neighborhoods by denying them loans; helping Lawrence would mean lots of money and a golden career for Day. But it also puts her life in danger, and she finds herself carelessly used as a pawn by both men. Toss in a muckraking black reporter friend of Day's, whose presence stirs her guilt over the horrific death of a black schoolmate at a college frat party, and a cowboyish bodyguard (complete with ten-gallon hat and pocket flask), and you have the makings of a television movie. Frey is best describing the internecine workings of financial institutions and those who manipulate them, but it's hard to spin an exciting yarn out of mortgage applications, especially when a stereotyped cast of hopeful black homeowners is pitted against nasty Southern good ol' boys. Frey's unremarkable prose ("How could humans be so awful? Why couldn't they just get along?") doesn't help.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books; First edition (January 14, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0345443268
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345443267
  • Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,772,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Stephen Frey is a managing director at a private equity firm. He is the bestselling author of fourteen previous novels, including The Fourth Order, The Insider, and The Takeover. He lives in Florida.

 

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Weak Unrealistic Plot, May 2, 2005
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Story starts off well enough as two inseparable girl friends attend a Carolina college fraternity party that goes bad. One of them, naturally the one who was reluctant to go the party ends up being attacked by drunken brothers and as she tries to save herself she falls out a window and dies. Believe me these nine pages are gripping. It's straight downhill from there. The author seems totally fixated thruout the rest of the book in totally unbelievable characters. There seem to be racists and bigots absolutely everywhere. This was really a painful read to get thru.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Snort!, April 1, 2005
They snort, they scream, they roll their eyes. Experienced readers will recognize that any of those things are a bad sign. Here we have all three, sort of like a bad day at the bull paddock. Eventually I simply lost interest but my impression is that top level bankers are prepared to kill, die, and otherwise go crazy for? You guessed it, mortgage descrimination by evil white guys!!! Oh, and they all seem to gulp bar wine. And the heroine is a brave, intrepid bank executive who is afraid to fly. And the hero? Well, it would be unfair to those of you who might like this book. Actually for aficiandos of bad writing who are willing to spend an hour skim reading it is not a bad deal.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars the pages drip with 2nd rate sex, December 26, 2005
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The prose here is increadibly choppy. It breaks and starts like a second graders first story. In many ways this is some of the worst writing that I have encountered in some time. One of the other reviewers here said that "the first nine pages were gripping and that its all down-hill from there." But I disagree. I think that from the outset, the plot is tortured in its absurdity. The death that Angela witnesses is contrived and sets up a very idiotic racism bent that seems to prevail throughout this book. I think that if you are going to touch on a subject like racism these days you are going to have to treat it with a little more respect than as a 3rd rate plot device.

Beyond the campy racisim, you have strong figures that are as 2 dimensional as can be. I mean, these figures here are straight out of every bad book you have ever read. It is like the author has combed old books and bad movies searching for the prototypical bad guy.

Avoid this book like the plauge. It is very very bad.
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