by Stephen Frey
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Summoned under mysterious circumstances to meet Jake Lawrence, one of the world’s richest entrepreneurs, Angela Day may be on the threshold of a brighter future. The reclusive multibillionaire is planning a takeover of a hot, new company—and he wants Angela to apply her considerable skills in banking 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, whom she lost in a custody battle to her adulterous, connected ex-husband. It’s the one reward for which Angela would risk everything. But with enormous wealth and power comes the ultimate price tag. For enemies everywhere have marked the man for death. And anyone close to him—namely, Angela Day—is fair game.
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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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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Incognito, 2006-06-12
I love reading these reviews after I've finished a book and find I agree with so many other reader/reviewers. The revelation of who was really whom in this crazy story was really hard to swallow. Everyone out trying to trip up the other guy and Angela like a puppet on a string. It's amazing how much time she could spend running around the country and still keep her full time job. How do authors dream up this stuff, following Howard Hughes around? Getting from the lodge to the mountain cabin was totally out of reason, in the dead of winter? With bad guys lurking everywhere? Forgeddaboutit.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Rubbish, 2006-05-01
I am glad that I only paid thrift shop price for this book. Even then it was overpriced and I am sorry that I wasted the time I did on it. I bought it because I have enjoyed the author in the past. What happened? This book was bad writing, unbelievable characters and a ridiculous plot. I would expect more from a grammar school student. Mr Frey owes us all an apology. I won't be buying another one of his books.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
 How do I get the "Welcome Mat" tatoo off my forehead?, 2006-03-13
Let me tell you what's good about this book. I believed the physical background. I believed Angela Day was frightened of flying. I believed Jake Lawrence was a very wealthy man. I liked John Tucker.
And, contrary to some of my co-reviewers, I thought the dialogue, at least minus the subject(s), believable. Here's where I faltered and they were big major shorcomings.
I don't know anyone like Angela Day. Luckily, I know women who are strong, opinionated, grounded, smart. I don't know any woman who would let some client put his hand on her thigh. I don't know any woman who would abandon her best friend at a drunken frat party. I don't know any woman who would permit some boss to tell her she was trailer trash and she better make her new client "happy" to get the contract. I don't know any women like this and as a result, I wonder how Ms. Day survived living to thirty without harming herself by accident. What a complete moron!
And then, you have the good ole boys at Sumter Bank spending one millon dollars on software to keep minorities out of the wealthy and we must assume white neighborhoods. So, ultimately, why would banks do this? The Banks, I think since the time of the Old Testament, are there to make money. That's their goal. What would prompt these guys to do this. THE PLOT HAS TO MAKE SENSE.
So that's it. No lead character. No plot. 3 stars. Larry Scantlebury
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
SAVE YOUR MONEY, 2006-01-11
this my first time reading this author and my last. this a story about a billonaire seeking help from a women because of incident in her past. of course, we are not sure who or what he is, or why he really needs her help when he has all the money in the world and she is a nobody. this story only becomes more absurd at the conclusion. SAVE YOU MONEY!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
the pages drip with 2nd rate sex, 2005-12-27
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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