Calculated Risk

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Summary: Wonderful romp through world finance!
Review: A Calculated Risk is one of the most amazing books ever written about the international financial markets. The characters are fun, light and upbeat. Highly recommended for the love scenes, if nothing else.

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Summary: EXCITEMENT GALORE
Review: A Calculated Risk is the fastest page-turner I have read in years. As a financial consultant, and as a person who has always been interested in the history of the banking industry, I would definitely recommend this to readers who want a realistic picture of the high jinks that go on in the back-room, behind the scenes operations of a dazzling industry. Ms Neville really knows her stuff.

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Summary: Fast paced, spend-the-day-in-bed-reading kind of book! Fun.
Review: A Calculated Risk seemed to be a faster, less complicated version of Katherine Neville's fabulous book, The Eight. (One of my top five favorite books ever!) The Eight made me pick up history books to learn more . . . A Calculated Risk ended with the book. It was an easy, entertaining read. Great book to spend a lazy day with or entertain yourself with on a trip.

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Summary: Unrealistic and foolish.
Review: A poorly written, and unrealistic tale about the banking industry. I have worked in banking for 15 years, and never once met a character anything like the persons described in this book. I eventually had to put the book down.

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Summary: Great!
Review: After a person has read Katherine Neville's The Eight, it is pretty hard to compare another book to the perfection of the first. I was absolutely engrossed with The Eight, and I really liked A Calculated Risk, also, but the technical jargon seemed a little more difficult than The Eight.

I did love Zoltan Tor, who was Katherine Neville's description of a Norse god, and Verity Banks was a very likable character in that she was her own woman. She got angry. She got hot. She got even. And let us not forget old Kiwi, who thought he was getting away with something, but found out he wasn't.

This story was about a bet between Verity and Zoltan. Verity bet she could rip off millions of dollars from the bank and put it around in different accounts and then put it back where it originally came from before anybody knew. She was trying to warn these people that the security of the bank was not all it was cracked up to be, but her boss, old Kiwi, and a few other dastardly villains didn't want their customers knowing just how easy it was to rip off a bunch of money (mainly because they were trying to do the same thing). Then Zoltan bet Verity that he could rip off a billion dollars from the Federal Reserve Building and Wall Street by stealing original bonds and replacing them with phoneys until they could earn a nifty sum of money, and then put the originals back before the bond bearer places found out about it.

The current day information of this book was pretty easy to follow along with, but I could not understand what the past dealings (unless it was because it was the beginning of the Rothschild Banking establishment in Europe)had to do with the present.

In The Eight, the past was very clear, and so was the present, when it switched back and forth from 1792 to 1972. This was one of those "perfect" books. Therefore, since A Calculated Risk is written by the author of my favorite book, I will only deduct one point, and give it 4 stars, because even though I liked it, it did lack some of the lustre of The Eight.

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Summary: Deleted one star just for comparison.
Review: After a person has read Katherine Neville's The Eight, it is pretty hard to compare another book to the perfection of the first. I was absolutely engrossed with The Eight, and I really liked A Calculated Risk, also, but the technical jargon seemed a little more difficult than The Eight.

I did love Zoltan Tor, who was Katherine Neville's description of a Norse god, and Verity Banks was a very likable character in that she was her own woman. She got angry. She got hot. She got even. And let us not forget old Kiwi, who thought he was getting away with something, but found out he wasn't.

This story was about a bet between Verity and Zoltan. Verity bet she could rip off millions of dollars from the bank and put it around in different accounts and then put it back where it originally came from before anybody knew. She was trying to warn these people that the security of the bank was not all it was cracked up to be, but her boss, old Kiwi, and a few other dastardly villains didn't want their customers knowing just how easy it was to rip off a bunch of money (mainly because they were trying to do the same thing). Then Zoltan bet Verity that he could rip off a billion dollars from the Federal Reserve Building and Wall Street by stealing original bonds and replacing them with phoneys until they could earn a nifty sum of money, and then put the originals back before the bond bearer places found out about it.

The current day information of this book was pretty easy to follow along with, but I could not understand what the past dealings (unless it was because it was the beginning of the Rothschild Banking establishment in Europe)had to do with the present.

In The Eight, the past was very clear, and so was the present, when it switched back and forth from 1792 to 1972. This was one of those "perfect" books. Therefore, since A Calculated Risk is written by the author of my favorite book, I will only deduct one point, and give it 4 stars, because even though I liked it, it did lack some of the lustre of The Eight.

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Summary: Calculated Risk
Review: After reading The Eight, I was excited about reading another novel by the author. Unfortunately, I was quite disappointed. The characters could be in a romance novel, the story line was predictable and the plot did not keep me in suspense at all. When I read a good book, I am always sad when I reach the end of the story- I was happy to get to the end of this one!

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Summary: Financial, high-tech, thriller. mystery.
Review: An exciting read. High technology, high finance, high suspense. This is an intellegent book, complex and exciting. I can't wait to read Katherine's next work

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Summary: Not like "The Eight"
Review: An interesting story about banks' technological insecurity. Neville does have a profound knowledge about the banks' standard of living. I wonder if Neville ever worked at a bank. However, I believe "The Eight" is pretty more interesting in its characters and story. I learned a lot about the French Revolution in the "Eight".

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Summary: Not like "The Eight"
Review: An interesting story about banks' technological insecurity. Neville does have a profound knowledge about the banks' standard of living. I wonder if Neville ever worked at a bank. However, I believe "The Eight" is pretty more interesting in its characters and story. I learned a lot about the French Revolution in the "Eight".