Numbered Account: A Novel - Softcover

Reich, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440225299 ISBN 13: 9780440225294

Publisher: Dell, 1998

Synopsis

A job he shouldn't have taken... A woman he shouldn't have loved... A secret he shouldn't expose...if he wants to live.

Nick Neumann had it all: a Harvard degree, a beautiful fiancée, a star-making Wall Street career.  But behind the dazzling veneer of this golden boy is a man haunted by the brutal killing of his father seventeen years before.

Now chilling new evidence has implicated his father's employer, the United Swiss Bank, in the crime.  Nick doesn't know how.  Or why.  But he has a plan to find out: move to Zurich.  Work for the same bank.  Follow in his father's footsteps.  Look for the same secrets...and uncover something so shocking, so unexpected, justice may not be enough.

For as a circle of treachery tightens around him, as a woman with secrets of her own enters his life, Nick makes another chilling discovery.  Not just about his father but about himself.  And how far he's willing to go to find out what happened seventeen years before--when a man died and a conspiracy was born.

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Review:

Through the eyes of Christopher Reich, dive into the corrupt world of international high finance. In his debut novel, Reich offers a realistic and gritty "day-in-the-life" perspective on working in the world's financial mecca. For Nick Neumann, an ex-marine turned Harvard MBA with a gorgeous fiancée and an elite position at Morgan Stanley, life is good--until his mother's untimely death opens old wounds and rehashes questions regarding his father's unsolved murder. Nick wants the truth and is willing to sacrifice his career, love, and future for a crack at untangling the mystery surrounding his father's death. To do this, he takes a job at the prestigious United Swiss Bank, the venerable financial cornerstone of Geneva and his father's former employer. Before he can begin his investigation, however, disturbing events come into play: One portfolio manager is dead, another had a "nervous breakdown," and his training manager is jumping ship to cast accounts with their staunch enemy. All of the managers have one thing in common: they each oversaw a multimillion-dollar numbered account owned by the mysterious Pasha. If that isn't enough, the DEA steps in and orders Nick to serve up Pasha on a silver platter. Being the embodiment of American ideals, Nick takes matters into his own hands and is caught in a ruthless conspiracy that stretches around the world and into his personal life. Peppered with murder, revenge, and first-rate espionage, Numbered Account is a thinking person's thriller, a refreshing break from the old standbys.

From the Publisher:

Advance praise for Numbered Account:

"A brilliant thriller that holds you in a vise grip from its first page to its last. It is the strongest and most original suspense fiction debut I've read in a while. If you liked The Day After Tomorrow and Absolute Power, you'll love Numbered Account."
--James Patterson, author of Cat & Mouse

"A taut, sophisticated, and very well-written international thriller. Christopher Reich, a former insider, opens the vault and lets us peek inside the inner sanctum of secret Swiss banking."
--Nelson DeMille, author of Plum Island

"Sleek, fast-moving, up-to-date, Numbered Account will satisfy every discerning thriller reader.
--Peter Blauner, author of The Intruder

"Excellent...a gripping tale of murder, money and immorality."
--Publishers Weekly, starred review

About this edition

• Publisher: Dell
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0440225299
• ISBN 13: 9780440225294
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 768