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Title: Numbered Account by Christopher Reich ISBN: 0-440-22529-9 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.29 (145 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book!
Comment: This was a very good book about the world of Swiss banking. Nick Neumann leaves a good job with a prsetigious brokerage firm
in New York to go to work for The United Swiis Bank.He is trying to find out why his father was murdered seventeen years before.
During the time of his employment he encounters several unique
people.Wolfgang Kaiser is the chairman,Sylvia Schoen,Sterling
Thorne is the DEA agebt and the villain of the story Ali Mevlevi
better known as the Pasha. The Pasha is a heroin dealer who is
planning to invade Israel with a private army as well as explode
a nuclear device over a small city in Israel. You also have aa
attempted takeover of United Swiss Bank by a hostile rival bank.
Neumann has to go through a web of treachery and many double crosses to get to the bottom of the truth about his father.This
is a very good book that you will find enjoyable to read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Gripping clean thriller
Comment:
Christopher Reich proves that you don't need profanity & sex to make a gripping thriller.
Nick Neumann, the Pasha and Herr Kaiser are memorable characters, well-drawn, as is the United Swiss Bank, which becomes a real place to the reader as the book progresses -- especially the inner sanctum of the bosses.
The Middle Eastern villain was a timely figure, given that the book was published three years before Sept. 11.
The book is fast-paced and an excellent first novel. The mystery is sustained. Themes about fathers and sons, heroes and villains and questions of identity and capacity for good or evil run throughout without being overdone.
I have no negatives, except maybe the relationship Nick left behind is a little under done; I'm eager to read more Reich.
Rating: 4
Summary: intrigue...based on 1998 hardcover edition...
Comment: If you are a reader who enjoys a writing with a good plot, a writing that grabs your attention with the prologue, this author and his books are for you. NUMBERED ACCOUNT gives you the latter and more.
Nicholas (Nick) Neumann, tarnished former US Marine and Harvard Business School, leaves his prestigious Manhattan - Wall Street position to pursue a career at United Swiss Back (USB) in Zurich, Switzerland. Or so it seems that is the purpose of his desire for change... Nick is encouraged to take the position at USB by Herr Kaiser himself, head of the USB who knew Nick's father. Nick accepts, with a ulterior motive - investigation of his father's murder in years past during employment with USB branch in the United States. Determined to investigate what his father was involved in when he was killed, Nick quickly learns of loyalty expected to the "establishment", as well as forging ahead into a collision course with the US government agencies in Zurich, the DEA investigator Sterling Thorne.
The author's style and use of each chapter is to weave the story in a forward pattern, describing characters and situations to line up with intrigue and spurring the reader onward to search for reasons of why, what, when, where circumstances and actions had, do and will occur to bring answers to Nicholas Neumann's quest for the truth. The truth is stifled in conspiracy, lies, destruction of coworkers, not knowing who is trustworthy: Dr. Ott? Schweitzer? Chairman Kaiser? Peter Sprecher, who befriends Nick? and the mysterious bank customer, high volume bank activity, high-dollar depositor the "Pasha" a.k.a. Ali Mevlevi. What is the US DEA interest in the Swiss bank(s)? Sylvia in USB Human Resources department, long-time with the establishment, but slowly promoted - is she trustworthy? Why does the absence of employee-on-leave Marco Cerruti cause concerns and secretive motives? One of Nick's objectives is to gain access to the USB records room that might reveal the path to his father's mysterious death.
USB faces the competition of the progressive Adler Bank, headed by USB's ex-employee Konig, who is attempting to realize a large percentage of USB shares for purposes of gaining a seat on the USB board. Nick approaches absentee Cerruti, who is able to offer information about Nick's father's employment with USB, but yet when Nick inquires about "The Pasha", Cerruti skirts around the question asked... Nick discovers that there is a "mole" in USB, with first-hand experience of items missing from his office. Nick is caught in a vise grip, double time, with all elements concerned which could lead to his own destruction.
On the negative side: some areas are not carried out fully by the author... need of more definitive explanations of Swiss Bank activity. Perhaps a tad of explanation for the layperson reader referring to the complicated dealings and perhaps a definition section of words/terms placed in the back of the book would be reader-helpful. Also, the romance interaction of Sylvia and Nick; ex-fiancée Anne and Nick, are epitomized weakly - not the all-out adventures of intimacy scenes, but the intelligent, deep thought exchanges of relationships, giving the reader more insight into those exchanges. There were lapses in the flow of some events, such as agent Thorne's movements are given minor attention between the time that the "new agent" is to replace Thorne and his sudden reappearance in mid-400 pages toward the end of the story. A reader also sees the appearance of two different stories in this tome: 1) Nicholas 2) the DEA agent - two with goals in the plot, but yet not strongly woven together except in small circumstances. There is a predictable conclusion with not much suspense to the ending.
On balance, this reader would welcome more writings by author Christopher Reich.
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Title: The Runner by Christopher Reich ISBN: 0440234689 Publisher: Island Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The First Billion by Christopher Reich ISBN: 0440234697 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Devil's Banker by Christopher Reich ISBN: 0385337272 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Set-Up by Paul Emil Erdman, Paul Erdman ISBN: 0312968051 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Takeover by Stephen W. Frey, Stephen Frey W. ISBN: 0451184785 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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