- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (25 Jun 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140267174
- ISBN-13: 978-0140267174
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 10.9 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,496,175 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jesse's boss dies suddenly during the investigation of a high profile candidate for the Senate, whose connections to the military's industry run far deeper than he has acknowledged. When Jesse uncovers evidence to confirm her suspicions she begins to attract unwelcome attention.
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Stephen Frey is the Vice President of corporate finance at a major Manhattan Bank. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. He is the author of The Takeover and The Vulture Fund. The Inner Sanctum will be published in Michael Joseph at the same time as the Penguin edition of The Vulture Fund.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For those who have read Frey's other books, the basic plot line and style will be instantly recognisable; young, talented loner against the wicked corporation etc with beautiful girl as sidekick. That said, however, Frey illustrates his knowledge of financial institutions well and delivers a well written novel that yet again I could not put down.
Format:Paperback
Some problems I have with the book. First we have a methodical assassin cum hitman who becomes a bumbling dolt when he has to go after Jesse. Secondly, we are expected to like one of the main characters, David. David is a stock trader who has very "dirty hands" and is highly involved in illegal corporate transactions, possible money laundering, and hiding records of financial transactions. We are expected to like him. Thirdly, another main character, Todd, has been late in paying back the mob for his gambling debts. They seem to go way to easy on him.
If you read this book, try not to judge Frey on it. Just about everything else I read by Frey merits 4-5 stars.
If you read this book, try not to judge Frey on it. Just about everything else I read by Frey merits 4-5 stars.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Dissapointing overall...
19 Sep 2005
Format:Paperback
I am a fan of Stephen Frey. His book 'Take Over' was fabulous. This one though seems to stumble around quite a bit.
First the story: It deals with an investment firm, the government, a huge airplane contract and a young IRS agent. This young IRS agent, Jesse, finds out that her admired boss, who was just killed, had some damning information on some illegal activities of a government contract and a political candidate. The boss knew that this was some explosive information he was uncovering so he set up a safeguard that if he was killed, he would have this information sent to someone that could figure out the entire web and uncover all the deceit. So who did he send it to? The FBI, the Police? Nope. He sent it to a 25 year old woman. He was killed for this information and he sent it to his employee, a friend, who is 25 years old to unravel it all. Huh? Well, the plot takes us to Jesse running for her life at times, having friends she is not quite sure she can trust (David, an investment banker who is a member of a firm that Jesse is interested in but he is a man that she may not be able to trust...and Todd who is a good friend of hers who has gambling problems and issues and a man that Jesse may not be able to trust as well) all the while trying to figure out who the bad guys are and what they are trying to acoomplish. Convuluted story.
The characters--nobody comes off real likeable. Even Jesse has some issues, some of which are brought up but not really explored The guys are even worse. You never really get to know either one of them real well and even worse, you don't really like either one of them.
The book has so many characters and it has such a weak plot that you as a reader end up just plodding along. Disappointing effort from an author that I very much enjoy.
First the story: It deals with an investment firm, the government, a huge airplane contract and a young IRS agent. This young IRS agent, Jesse, finds out that her admired boss, who was just killed, had some damning information on some illegal activities of a government contract and a political candidate. The boss knew that this was some explosive information he was uncovering so he set up a safeguard that if he was killed, he would have this information sent to someone that could figure out the entire web and uncover all the deceit. So who did he send it to? The FBI, the Police? Nope. He sent it to a 25 year old woman. He was killed for this information and he sent it to his employee, a friend, who is 25 years old to unravel it all. Huh? Well, the plot takes us to Jesse running for her life at times, having friends she is not quite sure she can trust (David, an investment banker who is a member of a firm that Jesse is interested in but he is a man that she may not be able to trust...and Todd who is a good friend of hers who has gambling problems and issues and a man that Jesse may not be able to trust as well) all the while trying to figure out who the bad guys are and what they are trying to acoomplish. Convuluted story.
The characters--nobody comes off real likeable. Even Jesse has some issues, some of which are brought up but not really explored The guys are even worse. You never really get to know either one of them real well and even worse, you don't really like either one of them.
The book has so many characters and it has such a weak plot that you as a reader end up just plodding along. Disappointing effort from an author that I very much enjoy.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Enjoyable, if you don't expect too much.
3 Aug 2001
Format:Paperback
This book isn't great literature and doesn't claim to be, but it's fine for a lazy afternoon when you just want something to read. It's the kind of book you can enjoy but forget you read a year from now. It also has what you might expect: a plot based on a string of incredible coincidences and 'not-very-deep' characters (I found myself actually hoping that the bad guys would snuff-out the heroine at one point just to shut her up). It provided a pleasant diversion for a few hours which is all I really expected.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Disappointing and getting predictable
2 Feb 2000
Format:Paperback
I eagerly looked forward to reading this novel after having read two other works by Stephen Frey. This one was definitely a disappointment. Frey has also stepped partially away from the financial world with this one and seems to be on somewhat unfamiliar ground.
Once again the main characters come from impoverished backgrounds that they prefer to hide - where have we heard that before? David Mitchell is almost a cookie cutter copy of Andrew Falcon and Mace McClain, although a bit more suspicious. At least the ending was a bit different from the Frey formula of the previous two books.
I would have given this book 1 star except the last 100 pages or so were pretty gripping.
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