Political backbiting, populist movements, and conflict in DC. A modern version of ancient political battles from Julius Caesar on.

Reveals the inner workings of the banking industry as well as the power struggles at the executive level. The plot revolves around the First Mercantile Bank's two executive vice-presidents both vying for the bank's presidency. The situation is resolved, but not until a counterfeit ring has been broken, a financial empire collapses, and the bank nearly fails.

"1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present day....

"Gwyn Ellis is in big trouble. Scandalous photos of her have been released online, slandering her as an adulteress and threatening her hard-earned job with Donatelli International Bank. No one wants to hear how she's been framed ... no one except her boss, the darkly sexy Vittorio Donatelli! Vittorio will do anything to protect his company from scandal--he's kept the secret of his true parentage hidden for years. So if it means making stunning Gwyn...

This novel paints the portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the decline and coarsening of the American frontier. The novel is written in the third person using the perspective of character Niel Herbert, a young man who grows up in Sweet Water and witnesses the decline of Mrs. Forrester for whom he feels very deeply. The author portrays the moral disintegration of that lovable...

"While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. But Paul's plan is not what it seems--and neither is Claude's employer, the Investment Bank of Torabundo, which...

Alan Groombridge was husband to a woman he didn't like, father to children he never wanted, and manager of a tiny bank. All that saved him was his fantasy of stealing enough of the bank's money to allow him just one year of freedom--a different kind of life. A brutal and chilling nightmare begins one day when the bank is robbed, and the manager and cashier disappear.