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...book's protagonist, Jayson Lyman, is an investment banker who grips his peach-colored Financial Times "like a swagger stick." Advised by his boss that French magnate Marcel Bresson is out to buy News/Worldweek, Lyman is ready to leap to the American company's defense. "You mean foreigners, the French of all people, think they can take over the biggest media company in America? They'll get their butts kicked!" But Lyman's boss informs him that their firm has been retained by the other side...
...that the days of dictation are over. But simply having a coherent world view or merely recognizing a new reality is obviously insufficient. The hard part is getting from here to there. "And that is why Baker is so well suited to the era," % says Pete Peterson, an investment banker who served as Richard Nixon's Secretary of Commerce. "Jim plays the cards he's been dealt as well as anyone. In the '90s his hand will consist of very different cards from those of his predecessors...
...losing $6 million for his firm in about 15 minutes. I thought, "Well, this is fiction. I'll go ahead and do it." My typewriter had hardly stopped moving before I picked up the New York Times, and there on Page One was an account of a young investment banker, about the same age as my character, 38, who lost $250 million for his firm in a week. I felt like Alice in Wonderland, running as hard as I can to stay in the same place...
...stuck to public service when you could have made millions in private life as a banker or a trader...
Occupied France, 1942. A righteous Christian banker is helping Jews to conceal their savings from the Nazis. Detained by the Gestapo, he commits suicide rather than yield the numbers of the secret accounts he has opened. Now only one person in the world knows how to retrieve the hidden $350 million: the banker's great-grandson Thomas. The eleven-year-old chess prodigy has memorized the long list of digits. A brilliant homosexual SS officer sets out in pursuit of the money...