Word: hailey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ARTHUR HAILEY 472 pages. Doubleday...
...latest novel off the Arthur Hailey assembly line tells the story of the First Mercantile American Bank. It is one of the 20 largest in the country, with its parent-branch office tower gleaming over a composite city in the Midwest. (A dirty river flows past the First Mercantile, and there are plenty of slums.) Following the death of wise and kindly F.M.A. President Ben Rosselli, two vice presidents personifying fiscal vice and fiscal virtue struggle for control...
...bank as a community resource. Vice (who comes equipped with a frigid wife and an effete son) cares only for profit. It is he who pushes a dangerously large loan to a multinational corporation at the expense of municipal bonds and local construction projects. Meanwhile, as background, Hailey provides a bank theft, a counterfeit-credit ring, extramarital affairs, race problems and a Robert Vescoesque corporate swindle...
...Moneychangers, Hailey...
...often eager, free fantasies based on the luxuries he was increasingly able to buy. He loved yachts and grand hotels. Two of his greatest bestsellers, Grand Babylon Hotel and Imperial Palace, are phantasmagorias crowded with counts and chandeliers. To the connoisseur of popular fiction they are still texts; Arthur Hailey, for one, admits to studying them for his own whopper, Hotel...