[John March 01] • Black Maps
- Authors
- Spiegelman, Peter
- Publisher
- Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
- Tags
- mystery , suspense , thriller
- ISBN
- 9780307425027
- Date
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.32 MB
- Lang
- en
The Barnes Noble Review
Peter Spigelman's first novel shows that white-collar crime definitely isn't a gentleman's game, exploring a net of conspiracy that runs from back streets in half a dozen major cities to the penthouse offices of people for whom $100 million is pocket change.
With a family background tied to finance, ex-sheriff's investigator turned Manhattan P.I. John March is in his element unraveling a strange extortion case tied to the collapse of a giant financial institution, Merchant's Worldwide Bank. The client, Rick Pierro, a wealthy, fast-track banking executive, has been faxed documents tying him to illegal money-laundering -- to the tune of billions a day -- apparently carried out by MWB. Pierro could lose everything if such documents were made public. Claiming that his business dealings with Merchant's were always legitimate, he hires March to locate the anonymous blackmailer and make a preemptive offer to have the whole mess go away. Intrigued as much by Pierro's response as by the situation itself, March starts backtracking and soon finds that the Merchant's scandal was only the tip of an iceberg of greed, coercion, violence, and casual murder that is compounding criminally high interest with each passing day. Black Maps is a compelling combination of financial thriller and hard-boiled noir. Sue Stone