No one knows the dark side of "The Street" better than master
storyteller Stephen Frey, author of such riveting novels as Shadow
Account and The Day Trader. Now, in his most ambitious work to date,
Frey proves that no writer can put a high-powered hero at greater risk,
nor offer readers more thrilling rewards.
A towering legend among New York private equity partnerships, Everest
Capital is aptly named. When its founder meets an untimely death,
thirty-six-year-old superstar Christian Gillette gets the top job. But
with the power and prestige come risks. The day he narrowly escapes a
fiery explosion that consumes his limo and takes two innocent lives,
Gillette instantly understands how intense those risks are.
It comes as no surprise to him that he has enemies in the world of
multibillion--dollar deals. But now that he controls Everest, he's not
going to let those enemies keep him from taking the firm-and himself-to
even greater heights. Gillette has never hesitated to be aggressive,
even ruthless, in his pursuit of success. This time will be no
exception.
But in order to forge the alliances necessary to achieve his goals,
Gillette forsakes a cardinal rule: Never trust anyone. The only
certainties are the insidious campaign of corporate sabotage that could
cost Gillette his job and the relentless assassination attempts that
could cost him his life. To break a deadly conspiracy of greed, he'll be
forced to walk-then run-an ever-blurring line between loyalty and
betrayal, attack and retreat, survival and destruction . . . in the
ultimate game of profit and loss.
With The Chairman, Stephen Frey presides with intensified skill over the
market he has so dramatically cornered-sharpening his patented brand of
hard-boiled high-finance intrigue to its keenest cutting edge yet.
