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Summary: Another good one
Review: I find Mr. Freys stories to be fast and attention holding in fact of a real page turner it is. I have read all but one of his books and find the financial world very interesting. he potrays a lot of what is happening right now in 2003 but written back in 1998. I will continue to enjoy his writings.
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Summary: Utter trash
Review: I found the prologue painful. The rest is history. Frey displays a rudimentary knowledge of high finance and auto-erotic asphyxiation for couples, and proceeds to bore the reader to tears. Worst book of the year. I will never read a Frey Novel again. By the way, this was my first. Trash, Trash, Trash, Trash!
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Summary: awful
Review: I have not read this book because if i have to read one more of Frey's books i will be forced to put a bullet in my head. How many times can a person right the same book over and over again. All he does is change the name of the characters and financial institution that person woks out. Mr. Frey i hope you are reading this. Please do not write any more books
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Summary: Good read
Review: I like all of Stephen Frey's books. He writes intelligent thrillers about the financial world.I read this book in hardcover quite a while ago. However, as always, his characters were a mixture of likable and not so likable people. The speed of the storyline (always in the finance world where things go at a hectic pace) is good and the plotlines are interesting. I always prefer authors who give their "main characters" human flaws and Frey does that very well here. You can't help but like the main character. This is a well written, not overly technical thriller that I enjoyed. Can't wait for Frey's newest one.
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Summary: Excelent
Review: I like the way Stephen write his imagination using his experience. Now I understand a lot about the investment banking work, the trick, the procedure an the dark side of the business. I myself work at financial industry, and has deep understand by reading my first Stephen novel "The Take Over". I suggest anybody who interested a career in wallstreet to read Stephen's Novel. Go on, Stephen.
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Summary: Exciting! What a conspiracy!
Review: I really liked this page-turner! While "The Insider" is the first and only book of Stephen Frey's that I have read, you can bet I will be reading some of his other writings. One thing I keep asking myself is, "In our financial world, do things like this really happen?" In lieu of the Enron and WorldCom Group fiascoes having been recently brought to light, the convolutions brought forth in this book truly seem possible. "The Insider" is full of can't put the book down, page turning suspense. Prevailing greed, power, self-indulgence, corruption, and innocence are components of Frey's interesting characters in this thriller.
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Summary: Best Frey book yet
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Unlike Frey's last one, this one has a very good pace to it and the story is enthralling from beginning to end. Some of his characters are very down and dirty and I certainly would not want to be working with most of these but they are certainly needed to hold the story together and they do this wonderfully. The only negative is that Frey tends to downplay the women in his books - Oliver's wife and mistress are good examples of this. Let's get some stronger women roles throughout his books. Overall, this is the best one yet! I can't wait to read the next one.
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Summary: Escape Literature
Review: I would recommend Stephen Frey's The Insider to anyone who enjoys reading novels solely for the purpose of suspense. The Insider is an adequate piece of escape literature. If you are looking for any sort of intellectual stimulation, you will not find it in this novel. Frey's failure to develop any of the static characters found in this novel only contributes to its weakness as a novel. Frey brings us through an undeveloped plot using third person omniscient. This works in many novels, but the use of it here only leads to poorly developed plot and characters. Frey attempts to use a surprise ending to make up for these weaknesses. However, any experienced reader notices this in an instant. The use of scrambled chronology adds to the weakness of the novel as well. The Insider is about a man named Jay West who is hired for a large trading company for the sole purpose of being framed with insider trading. Throughout the novel he finds himself in many predicaments because he discovers too much information too many times. Frey leads us through many twists and turns of the plot that are practically impossible to make any sense out of because of the lack of information about past events or characters Frey provides us with. This piece of escape literature includes elements of suspense, mystery and romance, all of which are poorly developed. This is a novel for anyone who enjoys reading for the sole purpose of reading. The reader will not gain anything from this novel other than the knowledge of the events that occur.
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Summary: Escape Literature
Review: I would recommend Stephen Frey's The Insider to anyone who enjoys reading novels solely for the purpose of suspense. The Insider is an adequate piece of escape literature. If you are looking for any sort of intellectual stimulation, you will not find it in this novel. Frey's failure to develop any of the static characters found in this novel only contributes to its weakness as a novel. Frey brings us through an undeveloped plot using third person omniscient. This works in many novels, but the use of it here only leads to poorly developed plot and characters. Frey attempts to use a surprise ending to make up for these weaknesses. However, any experienced reader notices this in an instant. The use of scrambled chronology adds to the weakness of the novel as well. The Insider is about a man named Jay West who is hired for a large trading company for the sole purpose of being framed with insider trading. Throughout the novel he finds himself in many predicaments because he discovers too much information too many times. Frey leads us through many twists and turns of the plot that are practically impossible to make any sense out of because of the lack of information about past events or characters Frey provides us with. This piece of escape literature includes elements of suspense, mystery and romance, all of which are poorly developed. This is a novel for anyone who enjoys reading for the sole purpose of reading. The reader will not gain anything from this novel other than the knowledge of the events that occur.
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Summary: Entertaining if you can forgive a weak plot
Review: If you are willing to completely let go of reality, you might enjoy this one. Ok, so the plot is a little thin and the characters could definitely use a little more substance. Still, like an action adventure movie where you are entertained in spite of the stupidity going on around you, this book has something to offer. It is a quick read and it won't challenge you to think a lot. A good vacation read.
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