STEPHEN FREY

Make-or-break decisions involving millions of dollars are all in a day' s work for Christian Gillette, chairman of Everest Capital, New York' s most renowned private equity firm. He' s taken on the toughest, most powerful, and often most dangerous adversaries and prevailed- all the while honing his skill for being cool under fire, literally. But now Gillette will be put to the ultimate test. He' s offered the chance to seal a deal unlike any other, one that goes beyond boardrooms, balance sheets, and even Everest itself- one that will leave its mark on history. Gillette is no stranger to Jesse Wood, the first African American president of the United States, having been Wood' s chosen running mate in his historic bid for the White House. Though still slightly upset over being dropped from the ticket at the eleventh hour, Gillette' s not about to ignore the chief executive' s summons to a top-secret meeting at Camp David. There, Wood drops a bombshell: The president of Cuba is dead. Cuba' s communist regime has kept the dictator' s demise hush while it races to fill the power vacuum. And the United States is poised to support a cabal of Cuban professionals plotting a coup. The President wants Gillette to meet with the conspirators and size up the chances for a successful capitalist revolution. But by no means can his mission be traced back to the White House. If anything goes wrong, Gillette is on his own. And if certain people have their way, something will go wrong. For the conspiracy to liberate Cuba isn' t the only one afoot. Enemies in high places, who will go to any lengths to wreak revenge on Gilletteand to unseat President Wood, have set in motion a campaign of deception, sabotage, and murder whose shockwaves will resonate from the streets of Havana to the Oval Office. But for Gillette, who has just named his alluring and ambitious proté gé , Allison Wallace, as his successor at Everest, the greatest peril may lie much closer to home. The Successor is blue-chip Stephen Frey, marshaling his flawless instincts for edgy, provocative, breathtaking suspense with a master' s touch.

La seguridad nacional, el terrorismo y los derechos humanos son las explosivas cuestiones que se entrelazan en esta nueva novela de Stephen Frey, con un alto octanaje de suspense, venganza e intriga. El dinámico director financiero Michael Rose está decidido a añadir una emocionante y rentable nueva dimensión al conglomerado energético de Industrias Trafalgar a través de la adquisición de CIS, compañía líder a nivel mundial de tecnologías de la información, a pesar de su feroz resistencia y la de algunos miembros de la propia junta de Trafalgar. Pero Rose no está dispuesto a sacrificar la gran oportunidad de ocupar un alto cargo en la corporación, a pesar de sus dificultades personales, que pasan por ser el principal sospechoso del asesinato de su infiel esposa.

In the world of high finance, it's all about risk and return. With big risks come big rewards . . . and even bigger dangers. And no one knows this better than Stephen Frey. From the New York Times bestselling author of Trust Fund and The Day Trader comes an electrifying new thriller of money, mayhem, and murder.

In this tense thriller, Christian Gillette, hero of The Protégé, is approached by a shadowy group representing vast wealth (but vague motives). It's a politically conservative alliance interested in a partnership with Gillette's company, Everest Capital. Then he is contacted by a charismatic liberal politician named Jesse Wood, who is about to announce his candidacy for President; Wood and his advisors want Gillette to run for vice President. Skeptical of both offers, Gillette tries to discern who can be trusted. But he soon realizes a colleague has ties to one party... and ultimately, he can't trust anybody at all.

His novels of big money and murder in the world of finance have earned New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey a richly deserved reputation as a master of suspense who always delivers a high yield. Now he raises the stakes, and the risk factor, in a new thriller that pits a young Wall Street player against corporate conspiracy and White House intrigue--in a dangerous game of double crosses, dirty tricks, and deadly consequences.

Para muchos observadores, Christian Gillette lo tiene todo. Como presidente de Everest Capital, la mayor empresa de capital privado del mundo, Christian deja a un lado el aterrador intento de asesinato que padecio para hacerse cargo de mayores desafios. La inminente absorcion de la empresa rival, la compra del nuevo equipo de futbol profesional y la seductora atencion de la famosa y atractiva estrella Faith Cassidy, hacen que Christian viva el mejor momento de su vida: seguridad, riqueza, poder y prestigio. Pero le falta algo, un enigma en su vida que continua sin resolverse. Las sombras del misterio todavia acechan sobre la repentina muerte de su padre en un fatidico accidente aereo.Desesperado por deshacerse de las persistentes preguntas sobre el fallecimiento de su padre, Christian se centra en la tarea de servir de mentor a su nuevo y avido protegido, David Wright, un hombre consumido por las ansias de aprenderlo todo sobre el mundo financiero, cueste lo que cueste. Un hombre con una pasion por la informacion y una busqueda de poder solo comparables al de otra per- sona, el propio Christian.Cuando Christian se vuelca en una obsesiva investigacion, su mundo comienza a resquebrajarse poco a poco: la mafia planea infiltrarse en Everest Capital, su protegido, David Wright, se ve envuelto en el asesinato de una prostituta y los espias gubernamentales comienzan a seguir todos y cada uno de sus movimientos. ¿Podra Christian descubrir la verdad sobre la muerte de su padre y los alarmantes peligros que se deslizan sigilosamente dentro de su vida antes de que las ansias de poder de su protegido lo dejen absolutamente sin nada?

Christian Gillette, como presidente de Everest Capital, la mayor empresa de capital privado del mundo, vive el mejor momento de su vida: seguridad, riqueza, poder y prestigio. Pero un enigma en su vida continua sin resolverse. las sombras del misterio todavia acechan sobre la repentina muerte de su padre en un fatidico accidente aereo. Cuando Christian se vuelca en una obsesiva investigacion, su mundo comienza a resquebrajarse: la mafia planea infiltrarse en Temo Capital, su protegido David Wright se ve envuelto en el asesinato de una prostituta y los espias gubernamentales comienzan a seguir todos y cada uno de sus movimientos.