Lady of Fortune

By Graham Masterton

Book Overview

They were shrewd and uncompromising, the Watsons, and all the arrogance and acumen with which old Tom Watson had built up the family's banking business was there in his children and grandchildren. Their methods were as aggressive as their lifestyle was opulent, and they could stab each other in the back or drive a competitor to ruin as calmly as a bank clerk counting out change. In time, their empire was to encompass the great financial capitals of the world. As it grew, so too did their power and influence.

First published in 1984, Lady of Fortune is the story of the Watson family, and of the remarkable woman at its head. Graham Masterton has created a pulsating saga of seven decades of ambition and ruthlessness, of public feuding and private passions, of a will to succeed so powerful that not even the ties of kinship could hope to contain it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1448216451
• ISBN13: 9781448216451
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Reader
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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"Lady of Fortune" is the spectacular tale of Effie Watson, the beautiful daughter of a Victorian banker, who rises above the restrictions of her era to become one of the richest women of the century. Tough, unconventional, and compassionate, she masterminds a banking empire the likes of which the world has never seen. Effie is friend and adviser to world leaders, movie stars, royalty, and celebrated artists and writers, but her staggering wealth and social position do not ensure her happiness. Her tragedies and triumphs unfold against the backdrop of several tumultuous decades-from Victorian England to World War I, through the Jazz Age, Prohibition, the Crash of 1929, the advent of Nazism and beyond.