Wealth Management
A Novel
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- $27.99
Publisher Description
For Fans of Elmore Leonard, Jess Walter and Gary Shteyngart, a Financial Thriller Featuring Three Ivy League MBAs who Must Put Their Lopsided Love Triangle Aside to Snare International Terrorists
In the lush world-banking capital of Geneva, Switzerland, three friends from Harvard Business School find their lives and their work unexpectedly intertwined. Catherine and Majid are handling investments for clients with dubious pedigrees. When their friend Rafe shows up in Geneva, he claims to be just another start-up hedge fund manager. But Rafe, after a moral awakening, is now an undercover agent with the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and he’s in Geneva secretly investigating his old friends, one of whom was his former lover.
Catherine and Rafe pick up right where they left off, even though she’s now seeing Majid, but she’s soon in a tangle bigger than infidelity when her biggest client appears to be leading her into a trap of money laundering co-conspiracy. And then there’s Majid, who would be more jealous of Rafe if he didn’t have more worrisome problems, such as his biggest client shorting a Nigerian oil company stock right before a catastrophic “accident.” As the CIA closes in on the terrorists themselves, Rafe, with the help of Detective Emmanuel Okoro of the Nigerian police, works to find a way to save his friends and the world at the same time.
Fast-paced and entertaining, Wealth Management shows that Emmy award-winning TV writer Edward Zuckerman is at the top of his game.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Zuckerman, who has won two Edgars and an Emmy for his work on Law & Order, makes his fiction debut with a gripping thriller. At the reunion of three Harvard Business School graduates—Rafe Sassaman, Majid Hassan, and Catherine Cole—in Geneva, Switzerland, Sassaman tells his former classmates that he's representing a new cutting-edge hedge fund that isn't picky about potential clients' ethics. He uses that pitch to convince Cole, an investment banker, to connect him with one of her clients, Stanley Pleski, a former lawyer for the Detroit mob, now a money launderer for Russian organized crime. Pleski's image as a "two-bit hustler" has enabled him to evade law enforcement scrutiny for years, but now he's the target of Sassaman, who's actually with the U.S. Treasury. Sassaman's investigation is made more challenging by his past with Cole, a former lover, who's now hooked up with Hassan, another banker, who finds his dealings under scrutiny by the Nigeria Police Force. Zuckerman makes the intricate plot accessible for the financially illiterate while keeping readers invested in how everything plays out. Fans of David Ignatius's The Bank of Fear will look forward to more from Zuckerman.
