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Summary: A fast paced, well constructed suspense thriller
Review: Steve Frey tells a great story, but THE INSIDER might be his best work since THE TAKEOVER established him among the bestseller elite. THE INSIDER starts fast, stays interesting, and finishes with a bang. Buy this book.
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Summary: The Insider
Review: The Insider by Stephen Frey is about a hot shot stock broker that gets hired to a big company called McCarthy and Lloyd. Jay West, 27, just came from a low class business and says he is ready for the big leagues. Oliver Mason is one of the top men at McCarthy and Lloyd and has faith in Jay. On the first day he came in, he made enemies with on of his co-workers because he doesn't believe he can help the company. Jay is set to prove him wrong. The first month went pretty smooth. He made new friends at his abitrage desk named Abby and Sally. One day, he came in early and noticed that Abby wasn't working. When he went to look for her, he couldn't find her. Finally, he checked on of the confrence rooms and saw Oliver gropping Abby. Oliver was a married man! He couldn't believe what he saw. He couldn' t tell anyone though. Some more strange things started happening with Oliver and his co-workers. Why was Oliver having an affair? He has a feeling there is a lot more to pretty boy Mason. He is trying to find out what.....
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Summary: Great story lacking depth and background
Review: The Insider delves into the under-explored area of corporate management, while also tackling some terrorism and politics. For a 350-page book, it covers a lot of ground at a frantic place, which eventually prevents the book from being all that it can be. Character development is severely lacking, as is introduction and development of side plots. This book ranks 4 stars more for its quick/easy reading and corporate setting than for its plot and characters.
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Summary: Great story lacking depth and background
Review: The Insider delves into the under-explored area of corporate management, while also tackling some terrorism and politics. For a 350-page book, it covers a lot of ground at a frantic place, which eventually prevents the book from being all that it can be. Character development is severely lacking, as is introduction and development of side plots. This book ranks 4 stars more for its quick/easy reading and corporate setting than for its plot and characters.
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Summary: another great financial novel
Review: The Insider keeps me current with all Frey's novels. He writes in a understandable way for people with limited insight in the world of high finance and throws in some dirty bad guys at the same time. Keep up the good work, I will be waiting for you next offering.
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Summary: The Insider
Review: The Insider was a pretty good book. I'm not complaining. Although the general consensus seems to be that the plot is unoriginal, I beg to differ. There were simply too many twists and turns in the plot for it to be a duplicate of something else. Maybe I don't know much about Wall Street, but Stephen Frey developed some very convincing situations, making the story believable-enough for me. To the other harsh reviewers out there: Give Mr. Frey a break! If you want a totally realistic/believable storyline, maybe you should stop reading now. There's not much else to say about the book, money, greed, power, politics, it's all in there. Happy reading!
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Summary: Any Body can write a Novel
Review: This book is a classic example of the current Novel Factories(Clancy, Grisham etal). Mediocrity and a lucrative screenplay are the only objective. No quality research,poor Human insight just the unrealistic good guy and TOTALLY bad Guy. I say, NO NOVEL NO GOOD and guess what Stephen NO MOVIE RIGHTS
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Summary: "thriller?"
Review: This is my first and defintitely last Stephen Frey financial thriller. The dialogue is banal; the plot devices almost laughable (when confronted with the need to break into an office in the middle of the night we then learn our hero has been carrying a crow bar in his jacket all afternoon; need exculpatory evidence to prove the innocence of our hero- its all neatly pulled together in an envelope right at the villain's fingertops when cornered; the characters so superficial and formulistic you know what's coming on the next page, and the "twists" weak and utterly predictable. One star is a stretch.
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Summary: Another great book by Stephen Frey
Review: This is one of those books that you get into earlier and can't stop thinking about. All you want to do is read it. It reminds me of Grisham's book "Street Lawyer".I highly recomend reading it... I think this is Stephen Frey's best book (I have not read Trust Fund yet)
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Summary: Another great book by Stephen Frey
Review: This is one of those books that you get into earlier and can't stop thinking about. All you want to do is read it. It reminds me of Grisham's book "Street Lawyer". I highly recomend reading it... I think this is Stephen Frey's best book (I have not read Trust Fund yet)
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