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Neville's popular first novel, The Eight ( LJ 3/1/89), featured dual story lines, one historical and one contemporary. Neville uses the same contrivance in these interspersed stories about schemes to amass great wealth: a clever tale about the early Rothschild banking dynasty and a much longer present-day story about bank executive Verity Banks's efforts to steal funds from her own institution in order to make a point about flawed computer security. The stakes are raised sky high, however, when Verity's charismatic mentor from years past shows up and challenges her to a bet that involves stealing and investing a billion dollars. Romance and riches ensue for these fetching characters in a farfetched plot. Good escapist fare.
- Will Hepfer, SUNY at Buffalo Libs.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
- Will Hepfer, SUNY at Buffalo Libs.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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"A dizzying, enjoyable caper...After reading this hard-to-put down thriller, you may put all your money in your mattress."
LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
When financial executive Verity Banks' latest proposal is axed by her boss, she decides to show how easy it is to break through automated security, hide money, and then show senior management where it is. Then her former mentor, financial wizard, Dr. Zooltan Tor ups the ante, and dares her to steal a billion dollars, invest it to earn thirty million in three months, then put the original billion back before anyone notices. To heighten the challenge, Tor and Verity will compete against each other, though Tor gives Verity an edge: she can use a computer for her theft, but he cannot....
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LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
When financial executive Verity Banks' latest proposal is axed by her boss, she decides to show how easy it is to break through automated security, hide money, and then show senior management where it is. Then her former mentor, financial wizard, Dr. Zooltan Tor ups the ante, and dares her to steal a billion dollars, invest it to earn thirty million in three months, then put the original billion back before anyone notices. To heighten the challenge, Tor and Verity will compete against each other, though Tor gives Verity an edge: she can use a computer for her theft, but he cannot....
A BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH-CLUB ALTERNATE SELECTION
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It's a simple story for a European to read, especially when you're a "learned banker". And Americans have no idea what you can do with modern banking.
The story really keeps to its title: you can calculate the result, there is no steep climax and the end is very flat, I think it's too flat.
So if you like to read Cathrine Neville you will probably like the book otherwise you should not buy it. Sorry.
The story really keeps to its title: you can calculate the result, there is no steep climax and the end is very flat, I think it's too flat.
So if you like to read Cathrine Neville you will probably like the book otherwise you should not buy it. Sorry.
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After a person has read Katherine Neville's The Eight, it is pretty hard to compare another book to the perfection of the first. I was absolutely engrossed with The Eight, and I really liked A Calculated Risk, also, but the technical jargon seemed a little more difficult than The Eight.
I did love Zoltan Tor, who was Katherine Neville's description of a Norse god, and Verity Banks was a very likable character in that she was her own woman. She got angry. She got hot. She got even. And let us not forget old Kiwi, who thought he was getting away with something, but found out he wasn't.
This story was about a bet between Verity and Zoltan. Verity bet she could rip off millions of dollars from the bank and put it around in different accounts and then put it back where it originally came from before anybody knew. She was trying to warn these people that the security of the bank was not all it was cracked up to be, but her boss, old Kiwi, and a few other dastardly villains didn't want their customers knowing just how easy it was to rip off a bunch of money (mainly because they were trying to do the same thing). Then Zoltan bet Verity that he could rip off a billion dollars from the Federal Reserve Building and Wall Street by stealing original bonds and replacing them with phoneys until they could earn a nifty sum of money, and then put the originals back before the bond bearer places found out about it.
The current day information of this book was pretty easy to follow along with, but I could not understand what the past dealings (unless it was because it was the beginning of the Rothschild Banking establishment in Europe)had to do with the present.
In The Eight, the past was very clear, and so was the present, when it switched back and forth from 1792 to 1972. This was one of those "perfect" books. Therefore, since A Calculated Risk is written by the author of my favorite book, I will only deduct one point, and give it 4 stars, because even though I liked it, it did lack some of the lustre of The Eight.
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This is the most entertaining and upbeat book I have read in a long, long time. I find a lot of fiction inane and boring, boring, boring. But A Calculated Risk was the kind of page-turner that keeps this guy up late at night! Tons of fascinating detail about the world of high finance.
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Totally Disappointed
After having read "The Eight" I was fevering for more of Kathrin Neville, but was completely disappointed by "Calculated Risk". Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 7. März 2005 veröffentlicht
Great!
But not as great as The Eight. But then, nothing can be. This is a must-read.
Am 2. August 2000 veröffentlicht
A Fanatic
My sister doesn't like to read much. But one day I left this book (thank God, just finishing it) at her house. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Juli 2000 von Tatiana Ramos
Exciting book about banking? Yup - hard to believe, huh?
When I find a book that makes me want to put the world on pause so I can read just one more page - that's when I know I've found a winner. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. Juni 2000 von Andrew A. Grgich
Fantastic Writing!
I loved this and all other Neville books. I love the mixture of adventure, escapism, romance , and history that blend together to create this book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Mai 2000 von "lil_scully"
Somebody should tell them about Tandem Computers
It was a nice book. But from a former programmer I would have expected something better from the Charles Babbage interface. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. Februar 2000 von P. J. Van Ginkel
Happens All the Time.
It seems astounding that Neville says she wrote this book in the 1980s, it was updated and published in the early 1990s, yet everything described in it is happening again all over... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
Fascinating Bankers? Amazing Imagination!
Some of the bankers who have written in here just serve to demonstrate those attributes that most people think all of us bankers share: lack of imagination, of humor, intelligence,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. September 1999 veröffentlicht
She Spins a Great Yarn
This is the most upbeat, exciting caper novel I've ever read. It's probably only because Neville does not make a habit of writing capers that she isn't recognized as being a master... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. September 1999 veröffentlicht
Fast, furious, and funny!
For those who love a light-hearted romp through what is oft-times a pretty boring industry (you guessed it! I'm a computer banker! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. September 1999 veröffentlicht
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