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The Stark Truth by Peter Freeborn (1989) (R33c4) Houghton Mifflin Company HC
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Cautious, conservative lawyer Tommy Thompson and fiery, ambitious Kitty Goldmark begin a relationship that eventually becomes obsessive and leads to high-stakes crime on Wall Street.
From Publishers Weekly
That incendiary mix of sex and money simmers quietly on these pages until brought by the skillful handling of this pseudonymous author to a climactic, if somewhat predictable, flashpoint. Stark "Tommy" Thompson III, a divorced, unambitious lawyer in his old-money family firm, is given to mild womanizing until Kitty Goldmark, a young widow and entrepreneur, brings sexual obsession and a shady, complex money-making plan into his life. Sex with Kitty often has a violent edge; her inside information arouses him further. Starting his own firm to handle trusts and estates, Tommy covers his tracks as he makes lots of money. When a keen-eyed MBA with a provocative computer printout asks Tommy for a part of the action, Kitty places the young man with her brother Ted, a brash Wall Street hot-shot recently appointed head of an old investment banking firm. Kitty can convince Tommy to do anything: they get married, they commit murder. Then Tommy finds himself in charge of a family fortune much more vast than he'd imagined, although nothing, it appears, was ever beyond the imagining of Kitty or her brother. Set in Bonfire territory and reported with the same cool, uncertainly reliable voice as Presumed Innocent , this authoritative, highly readable thriller is a chilling amorality tale.
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Format: hardcover
Pages: 304
Book Condition: Fair
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Copyright: 1989 by Peter Freeborn
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Edition:
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From Publishers Weekly
That incendiary mix of sex and money simmers quietly on these pages until brought by the skillful handling of this pseudonymous author to a climactic, if somewhat predictable, flashpoint. Stark "Tommy" Thompson III, a divorced, unambitious lawyer in his old-money family firm, is given to mild womanizing until Kitty Goldmark, a young widow and entrepreneur, brings sexual obsession and a shady, complex money-making plan into his life. Sex with Kitty often has a violent edge; her inside information arouses him further. Starting his own firm to handle trusts and estates, Tommy covers his tracks as he makes lots of money. When a keen-eyed MBA with a provocative computer printout asks Tommy for a part of the action, Kitty places the young man with her brother Ted, a brash Wall Street hot-shot recently appointed head of an old investment banking firm. Kitty can convince Tommy to do anything: they get married, they commit murder. Then Tommy finds himself in charge of a family fortune much more vast than he'd imagined, although nothing, it appears, was ever beyond the imagining of Kitty or her brother. Set in Bonfire territory and reported with the same cool, uncertainly reliable voice as Presumed Innocent , this authoritative, highly readable thriller is a chilling amorality tale.
ISBN:
Format: hardcover
Pages: 304
Book Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket:
Copyright: 1989 by Peter Freeborn
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Edition:
Defects:
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