The Power Broker: A Novel
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- ISBN13: 9780345480613
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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.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews
Daniel Dundon Said: Strong Plot, Weak Ending ( Jan. 3rd 2010 )
Stephen Frey has done an admirable job of creating a compelling plot with complex characters and good action. The variety of characters forces the reader to concentrate on the plot with its many intricacies. Frey does a good job of keeping the reader guessing about the true motivations of characters. Unfortunately the ending is not as believable. It leaves a number of serious questions unanswered. I was disappointed in the lack of clear explanation and sorry I had spent so much time focusing on its intricacies of the plot.
rry007 Said: Great story with many plotlines ( Jul. 12th 2009 )
I've always enjoyed Stephen Frey's books, and Power Broker was no exception. There are many different storylines that seem fragmented and disjointed, but as the story progresses, the reader finds out that they are all related. On the one hand, there is the Order, which is a secret group of wealthy white men who have the power and means to do just about anything. Then there is Jesse Wood, who has the potential to become the first African American president, much to the Order's chagrin. In the middle of it all is Christian Gillette, chairman of Everest Capital, a New York based investment firm. He is what binds all other storylines together.
Is it believable? No. It's too big a conspiracy and some parts are not logical or practical. But nonetheless, it is a great thriller. There's deceit, corruption, murder, and scandal. I found it fascinating and a page turner.
Rosalind Said: Totally Unbelievable ( May. 12th 2009 )
Unbelievable and poorly written. Not even worthy of a good beach read and a total waste of time. Ditto on all other 1 star reviews!
J. L. Pribble Said: So many characters by lots of plot here! ( Feb. 19th 2008 )
This is a book my mother-in-law left for me to read when she was here at the end of October. I had never read anything by this author before. The book was much better than I had expected! There are lots of characters to keep track of so you do have to concentrate when you read it. I enjoyed the twists and turns. It's also not the typical medical mystery book I am so fond of so that was a nice change too. I will seek out other books by this author in the future.
L. Michalek Said: Too many characters and settings ( Jul. 14th 2007 )
Deceit, trust and honesty are themes that are repeatedly surfacing in Frey's novel "The Power Broker." All relationships are questioned and tested in this action and crime packed story.
The novel encompasses several original story lines that did not seem to mesh together until the second half of the book. The two powerful, secret orders one of white and the other of black men entailed a large amount of detail on both sides that left the reader confused as to which characters belonged to which orders. Each of the orders had separate goals for a presidential hopeful.
I had great difficulty keeping track of the dozen or more characters in this novel, even though many were killed off during the course of the novel.
I did quickly become attached to the true main characters of the book Christian, Quentin, Nigel and Allison. I found that my favorite part of the novel was the dialogue between these individuals. The story that was told with these characters through their business practices was easy to follow and believable.
In all honesty, I had to force myself to read past the first few complicated and intricate chapters. There were too many characters and settings introduced in the first few chapters. I especially found myself very perplexed as to how the prologue fit in with the beginning of the novel. As the story progressed, the amount of story lines seemed to increase and did not converge until the final few chapters.
This novel could have used a character chart or map to prevent the reader being lost with too many characters and settings.