THE POWER BROKER: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 01240006B04491
English Summary/英文概要： Exposing high-level governmental corruption, conspiracy, and murder has garnered plenty of attention for Christian Gillette, the young dynamo chairman of the famous New York private equity firm Everest Capital. Now the reputation he has built taking Everest to the top 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 stake out a piece of the action by opening a new casino and launching an NFL franchise. But Sin City didn’t get its nickname for nothing, and the mob soon makes it clear that Christian’s company will have to pay if it wants to play in the nation’s gaming capital. Christian has already taken on corporate pirates and cold-blooded assassins and lived to tell about it, but crossing the underworld could do more than just kill his brilliant career. It could crush his chance to fulfill his late father’s political legacy.
Dynamic U.S. senator Jesse Ford is the odds-on favorite to make history as the first black president. And the man he wants beside him in the red-hot race for the White House is Christian Gillette. But Samuel Hewitt, a Texas mogul with billions to burn, has another fate in mind for Christian: to be part of a shadow organization, powered by wealth and bound by dark secrets that has manipulated the course of American history for generations.
As the pieces of Hewitt’s plot fall into place, and a twisted chain of intrigue, treachery, blackmail, and death gets tighter and tighter, Christian realizes–maybe too late–that in a grudge match between kingmakers hell-bent on victory at all costs, he may be the last pawn sacrificed.
With The Power Broker, bestselling author Stephen Frey unleashes an ever-accelerating thriller that breaks the suspense barrier–and never stops.
Chinese Summary/中文概要：
這次弗雷打破了驚悚小說的框架，開始涉及政治，商戰和犯罪。紐約最大私募股權投資公司的一把手克利斯蒂安•基爾特向公眾透露政府高層貪污內幕，商戰陰謀，為謀殺案提供資訊，這些已經為他吸引了太多注意力。他為珠峰資產贏得的名聲也突破了高級金融領域這個圈子，受到了更高級人士的關注。
而克利斯蒂安的目標卻是賭城，拉斯維加斯。他想在這裡開一家賭場和國家橄欖球聯盟的特約經銷處。但這個罪惡之城本來就不是純潔的地方，當地的匪徒表示克利斯蒂安要在賭城做生意是要付出代價的。克利斯蒂安已經受到非法盜用和殘酷謀殺的威脅，雖然他倖存了，但在賭城做生意不僅會毀掉他的事業，還會丟失完成先父政治抱負的機會。
活躍的議員傑西•福特是改變歷史的最佳人選，他可能成為美國第一位黑人總統。他需要克利斯蒂安•基爾特輔佐他競選，幫助他走向白宮。德州的顯要人物，家財萬貫的撒母耳•休伊特卻為克利斯蒂安想好了另一條道路。他希望克利斯蒂安成為秘密政府的一員。這個機密組織有財團支援、操控了美國歷史幾十年了。
休伊特的陰謀步步瓦解之後，一連串的陰謀、背叛、敲詐和謀殺接踵而來。克利斯蒂安意識到，這些爭權奪勢的人不達目的是不會罷手的。他希望自己是這些爭鬥的最後犧牲者。
Awards/获奖情况：
“斯蒂芬•弗雷就像派特裡夏•康威爾寫法醫學類驚悚小說一樣，能將商戰小說寫得很活躍。”——《福布斯》
“激動人心的一本書。故事中的人物反應快速，像海嘯一般。”——《出版商週刊》
“故事有趣，情節節奏快。”——讀書報告網
Murder, global conspiracy, treason, blackmail, sexual infidelity and perversity propel bestseller Frey’s entertaining, if highly implausible, third financial thriller starring Christian Gillette (after 2005’s The Protégé). Christian, the CEO of Everest Capital, a hugely successful Manhattan-based investment firm, faces a host of adversaries, chief among them the Order, a secret society made up of nine white American businessmen and government leaders whose predecessors have been manipulating financial and historical events since the society’s inception in 1839. Led by Jackson Prescott Hewitt, chairman of U.S. Oil, the Order fears that America is falling under the control of minorities whose agendas include statehood for Puerto Rico and Mexico and the election of the nation’s first African-American president. Christian comes to the attention of this cabal and, aided by series regulars Allison Wallace and Quentin Stiles, is soon fighting for his very life. The action roars along like a small tsunami, sweeping logic aside and carrying aloft those readers willing to suspend a substantial amount of disbelief. (July) ---From Publishers Weekly
Christian Gillette, chairman of the largest private equity fund in the country, is poised for even greater things when he becomes the running mate for the Democratic presidential candidate. Although his late father was a Republican senator, Gillette shirked politics in favor of adventure, but being part of a history-making ticket (the presidential candidate is African American) qualifies as adventure. But someone is out to get him. Could it be his managing partner? Or is there really a conservative secret society determined to discredit the Democrats? Although veteran thriller author Frey gives in to some over-the-top plot elements, he still manages to generate enough tension to please action-oriented thriller fans. ---Mary Frances Wilkens, From Booklist
About the Author/作者介绍：
斯蒂芬•弗雷從金融精英轉為暢銷小說家。他寫的故事都發生在金融界。他曾供職於JP摩根收購兼併部門，後在一家跨國銀行的曼哈頓總部公司擔任理財部副總。現在，他是一家私人股權投資公司的總經理。從《董事長》開始，弗雷連續推出了四本以基爾特為主角的系列小說，故事都發生在珠峰資本（Everest Capital），紐約最大的私募股權投資公司。弗雷的其他暢銷小說還有《The Takeover》、《The Vulture Fund》、《The Inner Sanctum》、《The Legacy》和《The Insider》。
Stephen Frey is a principal at a Northern Virginia private equity firm. He previously worked in mergers and acquisitions at J.P. Morgan and as a vice president of corporate finance at an international bank in midtown Manhattan. Frey is also the bestselling author of The Takeover, The Vulture Fund, The Inner Sanctum, The Legacy, and The Insider.
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