The
corruption of Jeffrey Blaine begins on the night of his daughter's
eighteenth birthday party.That so many of the city's elite have
gathered to pay tribute to this man's teenage daughter is testament to
his stature as one of New York's most powerful financiers. Yet Blaine
himself is bored, chafing, hungry for a fresh new challenge.
While
the party is in full swing, an underage woman gets drunk and then is
raped by one of Blaine's guests. In the confusion that follows, Blaine
agrees not to call the police. His complicity is witnessed by a
notorious gossip columnist -- making him vulnerable to a scandal that
could destroy him.
Enter Chet Fiore, a young man of
shadowy provenance who arrives at the party and immediately sets things
in order. Where did he come from? Why is he there?Blaine doesn't know.
But Fiore's grace under pressure commands Blaine's attention; and what
he eventually learns about Fiore -- that he is a rising figure in
organized crime -- both terrifies and energizes him. Fiore reappears
early the next morning at Blaine's country house and assures him there
won't be a scandal. The gossip columnist "has been taken care of." It
won't be long before Blaine learns what Fiore wants in exchange for
making the problem go away.
Jeffrey Blaine's
straight-arrow life will never be the same. In one sense, he is being
blackmailed; in another, Chet Fiore is exactly what Jeffrey Blaine has
been looking for. The tempestuous relationship between these two
powerful men will take several unexpected detours in what turns out to
be a deadly dance of money and corruption that pits organized crime
against the glittering world of high society and Wall Street finance.
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