The Banker's Wife
"Immersive, satisfying, tense---and timely: This is probably happening for real right now."--Lee Child "First-rate...Slick, heart-hammering entertainment."--The New York Times Book Review On an early morning in November, a private plane bound for Geneva drops off the radar, its wreckage uncovered days later in the Alps. Among the disappeared is Matthew Werner, an insider at Swiss United, a powerful offshore bank. His young widow, Annabel, begins a desperate search for answers and quickly determines that Matthew's death was no accident. She soons finds herself in a terrifying cat-and-mouse chase, on the run from his powerful enemies, who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Meanwhile, ambitious society journalist Marina Tourneau has finally landed at the top. With her engagement to Grant Ellis, she is set to become one of the elite she has spent a career covering, but, after the death of her mentor, she agrees to dig into one more story: Swiss United. In doing so, Marina uncovers information that implicates some of the most powerful men in the financial world, including a few who are too close to home. The story also could be the answer to Annabel's heartbreaking search--and save her life--if Marina chooses to publish it...
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The Banker's Wife is a portrait of two women, each of whom has become entangled in the murky world of offshore banking and money laundering -- and, as a result, finds herself in grave danger.
When a plane bound for Geneva crashes in the Alps, Annabel Werner is informed that her husband, Matthew, a private banker with Swiss United, perished along with a female client. Annabel gave up her own career to move with Matthew to Geneva so that they could start over following tragedy and disappointment, and Matthew could enjoy a successful, lucrative career. Annabel is devastated, but there is no time for mourning when she realizes that he left behind his encrypted laptop, details about client identities and transactions, and his assistant convinces her that she is not safe. She soon discovers that she was not provided truthful information about the plane crash and she has to unravel the mystery of what Matthew was really up to in order to survive.
Back in the U.S., Marina Tourneau is about to trade her career as a journalist reporting on America's rich and famous for marriage to Grant Ellis, whose father, James, is about to announce his candidacy for President. But her mentor and friend, Duncan Sander, is found murdered in his home and Marina does not believe that he was the victim of a robbery gone wrong. Duncan had been working on a big story for quite some time. He was determined to track down Morthy Reiss, convinced that Reiss fakes his own suicide and absconded with the proceeds from the Ponzi scheme that Reiss disguised as a hedge fund. When Marina receives inside information from a whistle blower, she is determined to complete the story -- for Duncan and to learn the truth. While following the trail of money straight to Swiss United, Marina finds evidence implicating some of the most powerful players in the international world of finance, business, and government.
In The Banker's Wife, the stories of Annabel and Marina are interconnected, even though the women are not acquainted. Unwittingly, they both find themselves immersed in a very tangled web of power, finance, and illegal schemes to avoid taxes, and they must both be exceedingly inventive and expeditious as they search for the truth. For both of them, as well as Matthew's assistant, Zoe, their very lives depend upon their ingenuity and deductive reasoning. The result is a tense, intricately constructed tale about the corruption of power and wealth, and the lengths to which the wealthy and powerful will go in order to protect their status. The book's pace never lags, careening with increasing speed and urgency to a shocking, but emotionally satisfying conclusion.
Thanks to NetGalley for an Advance Reader's Copy of the book.
When a plane bound for Geneva crashes in the Alps, Annabel Werner is informed that her husband, Matthew, a private banker with Swiss United, perished along with a female client. Annabel gave up her own career to move with Matthew to Geneva so that they could start over following tragedy and disappointment, and Matthew could enjoy a successful, lucrative career. Annabel is devastated, but there is no time for mourning when she realizes that he left behind his encrypted laptop, details about client identities and transactions, and his assistant convinces her that she is not safe. She soon discovers that she was not provided truthful information about the plane crash and she has to unravel the mystery of what Matthew was really up to in order to survive.
Back in the U.S., Marina Tourneau is about to trade her career as a journalist reporting on America's rich and famous for marriage to Grant Ellis, whose father, James, is about to announce his candidacy for President. But her mentor and friend, Duncan Sander, is found murdered in his home and Marina does not believe that he was the victim of a robbery gone wrong. Duncan had been working on a big story for quite some time. He was determined to track down Morthy Reiss, convinced that Reiss fakes his own suicide and absconded with the proceeds from the Ponzi scheme that Reiss disguised as a hedge fund. When Marina receives inside information from a whistle blower, she is determined to complete the story -- for Duncan and to learn the truth. While following the trail of money straight to Swiss United, Marina finds evidence implicating some of the most powerful players in the international world of finance, business, and government.
In The Banker's Wife, the stories of Annabel and Marina are interconnected, even though the women are not acquainted. Unwittingly, they both find themselves immersed in a very tangled web of power, finance, and illegal schemes to avoid taxes, and they must both be exceedingly inventive and expeditious as they search for the truth. For both of them, as well as Matthew's assistant, Zoe, their very lives depend upon their ingenuity and deductive reasoning. The result is a tense, intricately constructed tale about the corruption of power and wealth, and the lengths to which the wealthy and powerful will go in order to protect their status. The book's pace never lags, careening with increasing speed and urgency to a shocking, but emotionally satisfying conclusion.
Thanks to NetGalley for an Advance Reader's Copy of the book.
After the first few chapters, I was hooked. The plot had some crazy twists and turns that I didn’t expect, but I am satisfied with the ending!
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