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The Chairman

A Novel

#1 in series

by Stephen Frey
Scott Brick
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No one knows the dark side of “The Street” better than master storyteller Stephen Frey, author of such riveting novels as Shadow Account and The Day Trader. Now, in his most ambitious work to date, Frey proves that no writer can put a high-powered hero at greater risk, nor offer readers more thrilling rewards.
A towering legend among New York private equity partnerships, Everest Capital is aptly named. When its founder meets an untimely death, thirty-six-year-old superstar Christian Gillette gets the top job. But with the power and prestige come risks. The day he narrowly escapes a fiery explosion that consumes his limo and takes two innocent lives, Gillette instantly understands how intense those risks are.
It comes as no surprise to him that he has enemies in the world of multibillion—dollar deals. But now that he controls Everest, he’s not going to let those enemies keep him from taking the firm–and himself–to even greater heights. Gillette has never hesitated to be aggressive, even ruthless, in his pursuit of success. This time will be no exception.
But in order to forge the alliances necessary to achieve his goals, Gillette forsakes a cardinal rule: Never trust anyone. The only certainties are the insidious campaign of corporate sabotage that could cost Gillette his job and the relentless assassination attempts that could cost him his life. To break a deadly conspiracy of greed, he’ll be forced to walk–then run–an ever-blurring line between loyalty and betrayal, attack and retreat, survival and destruction . . . in the ultimate game of profit and loss.
With The Chairman, Stephen Frey presides with intensified skill over the market he has so dramatically cornered–sharpening his patented brand of hard-boiled high-finance intrigue to its keenest cutting edge yet.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Christian Gillette

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    March 29, 2005

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780739329702
      • File size: 351031 KB
      • Duration: 12:11:18

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The phrase "making a killing on Wall Street" assumes a literal meaning in Stephen Frey's latest financial thriller. Christian Gillette is suddenly thrust into the chairmanship of Everest Capital after the suspicious death of its founder. Gillette, who immediately finds himself the target of assassins, discovers that his closest colleagues may be enemies and that a cadre of unscrupulous competitors and politicians is out to destroy his company. Scott Brick's reading is outstanding. He is particularly effective conveying Gillette's fears and doubts and his evolving sense that he can trust no one. Most memorable is Brick's portrayal of Paul Strazzi, Everest's major competitor, whose ruthlessness comes through in every syllable Brick utters. D.J.S. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 14, 2005
      Diminished by dull prose, but distinguished by colorful, well-drawn characters and an arresting, labyrinthine plot, this 10th novel by Frey (after Silent Partner
      ) illuminates the machinations of big business and high finance. Frey introduces Christian Gillette, who will be a continuing character in this inaugural volume of a projected series. As 36-year-old Gillette walks out of a Park Avenue church after delivering the eulogy following the suspicious "accidental" drowning of the late chairman of Everest Capital, he is nearly killed when a firebomb obliterates his waiting limo. Undaunted, newly elected chairman Gillette steps into another car and carries on with his planning: he's determined to make the company's new equity fund, Everest Eight, the biggest in the history of private equity and to eliminate his competition within the firm. Corporate chicanery, boardroom sex and backstabbing abound, and conspiracies proliferate, as Gillette enters into a deal with the chief of a mega-insurance company to increase Everest Eight's capital to $15 billion in a bold attempt to surpass rival Paul Strazzi at Apex Equity and become the nation's dominant private equity firm. Sadly, a perfunctory denouement does no justice to the clever plot. Agent, Cynthia Manson.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Erik Singer's audiobook performance is smooth, solid, and nuanced. He's competent as man, woman, young, old, Latino, British, or Italian in Frey's portrayal of millionaires run amok. While some audiobook narrators are best suited for one genre or another, Singer has a versatile, gymnastic voice. And he moves at just the right pace, never overrunning or stalling the listener's internal movie of brutal murders, entrapment-sex, and other high-finance and political betrayals. The bestselling Frey must delight in Random House's selection of Singer, who does a suspense novel good in boosting Frey's no-nonsense dialogue and the listener's emotional responses to the heroes and the villains. D.J.M. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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