The Power Broker, by Stephen Frey

April 20, 2011 by
Filed under: book review, Financial Thriller, Stephen Frey, Thriller 

This is the third book in Stephen Frey’s series featuring Christian Gillette. Unfortunately, it is not quite as good as the previous two.

Christian, the CEO of Everest Capital,The Power Broker, byb Stephen Frey a hugely successful Manhattan-based investment firm, faces a host of adversaries, chief among them the Order, a secret society made up of nine white American businessmen and government leaders whose predecessors have been manipulating financial and historical events since the society’s inception in 1839. Led by Jackson Prescott Hewitt, chairman of U.S. Oil, the Order fears that America is falling under the control of minorities whose agendas include statehood for Puerto Rico and Mexico and the election of the nation’s first African-American president.

As usual in Frey’s books there is murder, global conspiracy, treason, blackmail, high finance and sexual infidelity. However, but I miss a little bit in this book is the financial thriller aspect. This is instead a large scale conspiracy book, a genre which Frey does not master nearly as well.

For sure, there is a lot of action, but the lack of a plausible financial thread to it all means that in this book the thread lines are somewhat loosely coupled and solutions seem to more or less come drifting along when needed. In my opinion The Power Broker is one of the weaker Stephen Frey novels, and I will only recommend it to people wanting to read the whole series about Christian Gillette.

Links to the books by Stephen Frey: amazon US, amazon UK, and amazon CAN.

 

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