The Banker's Wife

By Cristina Alger

Book Overview

"Immersive, satisfying, tense---and timely: This is probably happening for real right now."--Lee Child

"First-rate...Slick, heart-hammering entertainment."--The New York Times Book Review

On an early morning in November, a private plane bound for Geneva drops off the radar, its wreckage uncovered days later in the Alps. Among the disappeared is Matthew Werner, an insider at Swiss United, a powerful offshore bank. His young widow, Annabel, begins a desperate search for answers and quickly determines that Matthew's death was no accident. She soons finds herself in a terrifying cat-and-mouse chase, on the run from his powerful enemies, who will stop at nothing to hide the truth.

Meanwhile, ambitious society journalist Marina Tourneau has finally landed at the top. With her engagement to Grant Ellis, she is set to become one of the elite she has spent a career covering, but, after the death of her mentor, she agrees to dig into one more story: Swiss United. In doing so, Marina uncovers information that implicates some of the most powerful men in the financial world, including a few who are too close to home. The story also could be the answer to Annabel's heartbreaking search--and save her life--if Marina chooses to publish it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735218471
• ISBN13: 9780735218475
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Captures your attention from Page 1

Glad I discovered this new author. I'm only a few chapters into the book, but hate to put it down when I have to work. Very interesting, plots unfold quickly.

Very well-structured and intricately-crafted novel on the level of Daniel Silva. So many people die

I can’t believe how much I loved this book and that I’ve never heard of this author! This is a very well-structured and intricately-crafted novel. So many people die! It’s a tale about financial subterfuge and numbered money accounts of dictators, terrorists, CEOs and the like but reads like espionage. The majority of the book is told from the perspective of two women who, interestingly enough, never meet. But they are both equally at risk when the entangled web of illicit banking practices and shell corporations of powerful billionaires begin to unravel as the result of a bank mole and the cooperation of multiple international intelligence agencies. Trusting the wrong person could just get them killed. Marina is a journalist about to retire because she is engaged to be married to the son of a powerful billionaire who is on the precipice of announcing his candidacy for president of the Unites States of America. Marina receives a thumb drive of bank information meant for her editor-in-chief, who meets his untimely demise before he can leak the information. Now it’s up to Marina to reveal the scandalous underworld connections and activities to the rest of the world before she ends up dead, too. Annabel is the American banker’s wife living in Geneva, Switzerland with her husband and feeling like a fish out of water. Is Annabel smart enough to figure out the clues her husband left her before his plane was intentionally crashed near Mount Trélod in the Bauges Mountains of France as he was returning from a suspicious business trip she knew nothing about? Or will the creepy head of the bank dispose of her for safety reasons without discovering what she knows. Finally, we get to hear from the bank mole and learn about the acts she was intimidated into before resolving to leak information on her employer and the sanctions list clients of the bank. Parts of the book reminded me of Daniel Silva because of its international intrigue. Cristina Alger efficiently crafted this thriller with NONE of the useless filler we too often see! So, kudos to her editor, too, although I did find about three typos. This is a great read worthy of rereading and I hope we see much more of this author in the future.