Author:Christopher Reich Binding: Mass Market Paperback Published: 1998-12-01 ISBN: 0440225299 Availability:
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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.
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.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Great premise that's just not executed all that well.:
Well, I can't argue that the premise isn't any good on this one. I bought this book twice because of it. Not deliberately though. I'm a big fan of corporate thrillers, so I bought it based on the premise in hardcover when it came out. Unfortunately, it never caught my interest enough during the first part, and it kept getting pushed aside until it landed in the library donations pile. Then, a year or so go by and I read the description of the premise and some of the reviews (not remembering I'd... more info
A Taut Thriller:
This work is the debut novel for the writer and an extraordinary amount of promise in this work. The protagonist appears to have everything going his way on the start to a successful life. His father worked sor a Swiss Bank and under rather questionable circumstances. When he decides to procure employment at the same Bank, his life is rapidly changed. The story is well set and was able to hold this readers interest. The writer has numerous twists in the plot that prevent this work from becoming formulaic in... more info
This book was an education for me...:
...in the ways of Swiss banking. I bought it for a few pesos at a yard sale, and being unfamiliar with the author, was not convinced it was worth my time to read it. Once I began, I was hooked. The author created a sympathetic character who was smart, clever and accomplished, and Reich is quite adept at using flashbacks to provide motivation for his protagonist. He creates a world with which I am totally unfamiliar, and he makes it comfortably habitable for the duration of the book. He provides enough... more info
Maybe the later books get better:
I tossed the book after only 50 pages. The plot action was too cartoonish. Somebody pushes you from behind but you cannot identify them ? You go blundering into a restricted area on your first day on the job ? Sorry, the willing suspension of disbelief won't stretch that far.
