Word: macked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slight, er, problem has cropped up at the large (68 partners) law firm of Gage & Griswell; the Management Oversight Committee wonders if maybe McCormack A. ("Mack") Malloy might not be able to help them solve it. Seems that Bert Kamin, like his friend Mack a partner at Gage & Griswell, has disappeared, and so has about $5.6 million. The money was lifted from an account the firm had assembled to settle insurance claims against the fatal crash of a TransNational Air plane in 1985. Since TN is by far the firm's biggest and most lucrative account, the missing money could...
That is not easy for Mack Malloy, Turow's most complex and problematic hero to date. Pushing 50, Mack agrees to look for the missing partner because he fears his own high-paying job at Gage & Griswell may be in jeopardy; if he succeeds, he should be able to coast on his partners' gratitude for a few more years. The idea of the chase appeals to the ex-cop in him. And the job may distract him from the dreariness of his personal life: his recent divorce, his unruly adolescent son, the drinking problem he hopes he has solved...
Needless to say -- this is, after all, a Scott Turow novel -- the matter of the purloined money proves to be far more complicated than Mack or his colleagues anticipated. Finding Kamin turns out to be the easy part; the identity of the person who finally winds up with the millions remains perfectly hidden until almost the very end of the book...
...Rose Keyser, Robert B. Stevens (Associate Editors); Kevin J. McVea (Operations); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Arnold H. Drapkin (Consultant); Dorothy Affa Ames, Sarah Buffum, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith-Alam (Assistant Editors); Cristina T. Scalet, Marie Tobias, Mary Worrell-Bousquette (Researchers) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Glenn Mack, Barbara Nagelsmith, Anni Rubinger, Mary Thompson, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Forrest Anderson, Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Dirck Halstead, Barry Iverson, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, Steve Liss, Peter Magubane, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau...
...White House by at least a decade and brings adult supervision to the place. But no one has a mean word to say about Neel, and therein may lie a problem. Says a White House aide: "We now have the three nicest guys in the world -- Mack, Mark and Roy -- in the chief of staff operation...