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2018.
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"Late one night a man walks into the luxurious home of disgraced banker Harry McNamara and his wife Julie. And when the man launches an unspeakably brutal attack on Harry, a horror-struck Julie, frozen by fear, watches her husband die. Just one hour later, the attacker, J. P. Carney hands himself into the police and confesses to beating Harry to death. Except he also claims that the assault was not premeditated and that he didn't know the identity...
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Honeymoon thrillers volume 1
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In his sexiest, scariest novel yet, James Patterson deftly confirms that he always "takes thrills to the next level" (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review).
When FBI agent John O'Hara first sees Nora Sinclair, she seems perfect. She has the looks. The career. The clothes. The wit. The sophistication. The tantalizing sex appeal. The whole extraordinary package-and men fall in line to court her. She doesn't just attract men, she enthralls them.
So...
When FBI agent John O'Hara first sees Nora Sinclair, she seems perfect. She has the looks. The career. The clothes. The wit. The sophistication. The tantalizing sex appeal. The whole extraordinary package-and men fall in line to court her. She doesn't just attract men, she enthralls them.
So...
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Happily Inc volume 4
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"Silver Tesdal has a head for business and a mouth made for kissing, and banker Drew Lovato has his eye on both. But ever since he was dumb enough to let her go, she's kept him at a distance. When the bank turns her down for a loan, Drew sees a double opportunity—he can finance her brilliant, unique idea to rock Happily Inc's wedding industry and win back her trust. Despite her reputation, Silver’s not as tough as she seems. Losing Drew nearly...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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In the aftermath of the collapse of Weiss & Partners investment bank, CEO Bob D'Amico's daughter Madison, her mother, her best friend, her nanny, and a family friend begin to question their shifting roles in the insular, moneyed world of Greenwich, Connecticut. All these women have witnessed more than they've disclosed, all harbor secret insecurities and fears, and all must ask themselves: where is the line between willful ignorance and unspoken complicity?...
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Rogues to riches volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
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Falsely imprisoned Quinn Wentworth marries pregnant widow Jane Winston in order to help her, but when he is saved from execution by the discovery that he is the heir to a dukedom, they must live with their marriage of convenience.
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Christian Gillette thrillers volume 3
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Exposing governmental corruption, conspiracy, and murder has garnered plenty of attention for Christian Gillette, young chairman of the New York private equity firm Everest Capital. Now his reputation has been noticed beyond the boardrooms of high finance--by powerful people with potentially devastating agendas. Christian's own attention is on Las Vegas, where he means to open a new casino and launch an NFL franchise--but the mob makes it clear that...
7) Stake & eggs
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Cackleberry Club mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
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When the town's most-hated banker is beheaded by a wire staked in the snow behind the Cackleberry Club cafe, Suzanne, with most of her customers on the prime suspect list, must serve up the real killer.
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[2023]
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"When a treacherous betrayal ruins her chances for a full-time position at the illustrious merchant bank, Greene Brothers Hale, in NYC, intern Faye Walker, using her natural born gift for numbers, proves she is not one to be played with as she puts in motion a new plan"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cruel, small-town banker Howell Whittington has a stroke sitting up in church, and when he wakes up, he's transformed and wants nothing more than to be a real husband, which scares his proper, repressed wife Elizabeth to death. Setting out to right past wrongs, he blackmails the town's baddies into doing the right thing by threatening to foreclose on their mortgages. A hilarious story of marriage and love and second chances.
10) The wreckage
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Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
c2011
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After being robbed of his briefcase, ex-cop Vincent Ruiz tracks down the thieves, who had mistaken him for someone else, and becomes unwittingly involved in unraveling plots surrounding bank bombings in Baghdad and a missing VP at an international finance powerhouse.
11) Burner
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[2023]
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"In the latest thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Gray Man series, Court Gentry is sent on a mission by a person he doesn't trust to snatch a target he can't stand from the clutches of Russian assassins he can't defeat...and those are the upsides of the job. Alex Velesky is in a world of trouble. He has the key that can unlock the truth behind a web of illicit payments the Russians have spread around the globe. The money is used...
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Single Wall Street banker Rae, searching for Mr. Right before her thirtieth birthday, meets Dustin, a fellow poetic soul trapped in a business suit like her, and as their relationship progresses, his struggles with depression test her resolve as she tries to let love breathe on its own timeline.
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Christian Gillette thrillers volume 4
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007
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Make-or-break decisions involving millions of dollars are all in a day's work for Christian Gillette, chairman of Everest Capital, New York's most renowned private equity firm. He's taken on the toughest, most powerful, and often most dangerous adversaries and prevailed--all the while honing his skill for being cool under fire, literally. But now Gillette will be put to the ultimate test. He's offered the chance to seal a deal unlike any other, one...
14) Buried at sea
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Morrow
Pub. Date
c2002
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When Jim Leighton, who has always longed for adventure and excitement, becomes a deckhand and personal trainer to venture capitalist Will Spark, he finds himself sailing on the high seas to Rio de Janeiro, but when Stark suddenly changes their course in a fit of paranoia, Jim soon finds himself alone at sea and fighting for his life, while trying to outsmart a dangerous enemy.
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Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2009
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Banker Doug Fanning begins building a massive mansion on land formerly owned by retired teacher Charlotte Graves' grandfather. The land was once donated to the local town, and now Charlotte is trying to stop Doug's construction efforts by any means necessary.
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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"Over the past three years, the notorious @GSElevator Twitter feed has offered a hilarious, shamelessly voyeuristic look into the real world of international finance. Hundreds of thousands followed the account, Goldman Sachs launched an internal investigation, and when the true identity of the man behind it all was revealed, it created a national media sensation--but that's only part of the story. Where @GSElevator captured the essence of the banking...
18) The firebrand
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Chicago Fire trilogy volume 3
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Chicago, 1871
In the aftermath of a destructive blaze, romance begins to blossom...
Chicago is burning, and Lucy Hathaway is running for her life. As she rushes past a fine hotel engulfed in flames, a wrapped bundle tumbles from a window into her arms. Seconds later the building crumbles, and Lucy is astonished to discover the swaddled blanket contains a baby.
Five years later, Lucy walks into Rand Higgins's bank and knows: the orphan she rescued...
19) Shadow account
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2004
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After accidentally receiving an e-mail that reveals a massive corporate fraud, investment banker Conner Ashby finds himself dangerously targeted by the e-mail's sender, a situation that has him racing for his life while he works to uncover a trail of nation-wide misdeeds.
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With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of four men--Montagu Norman, Amile Moreau, Hjalmar Schacht, and Benjamin Strong--whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century.