The Takeover

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Summary: Excellent fast paced adventure - a must read
Review: A great book for anyone remotely interested in the financial markets of today! I read the entire book in two days. I just couldn't put it down.

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Summary: Fast-Paced "The Takeover" a Winner
Review: Andrew Falcon is an average Wall Street investment banker who has just been handed a one million dollar bonus check from his firm. This is not enough for Falcon, who yearns for more. He immediately resigns from the firm. Through a series of apparent coincidences, he becomes the lead investment banker in the largest corporate takeover ever. But Falcon learns that there is much more than meets the eye. He uncovers a sinister plot to shatter the financial markets, and his life. "The Takeover" is a fast-paced thriller that has the appeal of a John Grisham novel.

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Summary: Very Good Business Book!
Review: Andrew Falcon leaves the investment banking firm Winthrop,
Hawkins,and Co. He starts a computer company that fails. He finds employment with NASO and is chosen to handle the largest corporate takeover in history.He will recieve a five million dollar fee for his services.He discovers that the takeover is a huge conspiracy to topple the President.Phoenix Grey,an assassin
who is employed by the Sevens kills the chairman of the Federal
Reserve and an analyst as well as others who pose opposition.
The conspiracy hatched by the Sevens is sinister and effective.
This book gives you insight into the actual takeover game.The ending of this book is also shocking.Buy this book and read it. You will enjoy it.

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Summary: A book of extraordinary detail...realistic and provocative.
Review: Andrew Falcon, investment banker supreme, finds himself in the middle of a first-rate conspiracy designed to sabotage a reigning liberal administration that would benefit a secret organization known as The Sevens, and leave him behind bars. Torn between two lovers and driven by a superior will to survive, Andrew Falcon struggles to uncover this unknown evil while gaining financial independence and peace of mind

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Summary: Take a Wall Street Ride into The Firm
Review: Andrew Falcon, investment banker, can earn five million dollars for engineering a single hostile take over. Is it worth his career and his life? He angered one of the most powerful men in the financial world, and that man will do whatever it takes to exact his revenge. Living means keeping three steps ahead of a conspiracy geared to disrupt the government. Living well means he must outwit the Sevens.

Frey is a powerful writer who opens the doors for an insider's view of trading and a hostile take over of other companies. His terminology is comprehensible, descriptions are vivid, and most characters are well developed.

I can generally tell when I read the first book by a new author. The mistakes they make are similar, and this is no exception. However, the multiple points of view within small sections are acceptable and do keep the story flowing. In addition, this characteristic flaw either lessens or is not noticeable because I was hooked on the story and it had my rapt attention

Without doubt, this is a five star first book for a new author, and I will buy more of his books. I did not care for the last paragraph, but the ambiguity has caused me to think about the story and characters long after I completed the read.

Victoria Tarrani

Rating:
Summary: Take a Wall Street Ride into The Firm
Review: Andrew Falcon, investment banker, can earn five million dollars for engineering a single hostile take over. Is it worth his career and his life? He angered one of the most powerful men in the financial world, and that man will do whatever it takes to exact his revenge. Living means keeping three steps ahead of a conspiracy geared to disrupt the government. Living well means he must outwit the Sevens.

Frey is a powerful writer who opens the doors for an insider's view of trading and a hostile take over of other companies. His terminology is comprehensible, descriptions are vivid, and most characters are well developed.

I can generally tell when I read the first book by a new author. The mistakes they make are similar, and this is no exception. However, the multiple points of view within small sections are acceptable and do keep the story flowing. In addition, this characteristic flaw either lessens or is not noticeable because I was hooked on the story and it had my rapt attention

Without doubt, this is a five star first book for a new author, and I will buy more of his books. I did not care for the last paragraph, but the ambiguity has caused me to think about the story and characters long after I completed the read.

Victoria Tarrani

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Summary: Highly recommended!
Review: Awesome.

I loved this book. I had bought this book second-hand at a street sale because it sounded ok from the description and the reviewer quotes, and also because it was only $1 - and I'm really glad that I did. Right now, I'd definitely include The Takeover in a list of my favorite books. To put it into some context, I'm also a fan of Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy books.

This is the first book by Stephen W. Frey that I've read - I will definitely look for and read other books by him.

The story is fast-paced and entertaining, and the plot is terrific. One thought that I had as I read it was "This would make a great movie!" And obviously others, including Paramount, thought that too as I believe Paramount has optioned it.

The depiction of Wall Street, and its reach into the Federal Reserve, the SEC, the press, and Washington is spot-on. A few years ago I might have thought it far-fetched, but since Bush, Enron, the market action of recent years, etc. I've become much more aware/cynical of how things work in the US and in the world. The Takeover was published in 1995, but I found I related it to recent events and the current corporate and political environment (ie. Enrons, Wall Street scams, CEOs, questionable elections, generally self-enrichment at the expense of the public.) Again, to put this in some context, the author, Stephen W. Frey, is a Wall Street investment banker at the executive level so he's able to provide insights into that world.

Wall Street has too much power for my taste and this book reinforced that opinion. Yes, it's fiction, but so was Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor's incredible closing scenario - until it happened.

Great read, definitely worth it. This is the first time I've been moved to write a positive review for a book.

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Summary: The Firm meets Wall Street
Review: Disclaimer: I read this one in a hammock on a Mexican beach.

Mr Frey obviously knows the economic world, and the story flows rapidly (with lots of twists and turns, never boring), but the writing was a bit stale, and the characters are stereotypical (hard to identify with any of them).

The ending is no surprise - hero and girl on the beach the Caymans and all the bad guys either dead or in jail. Hmm . . . where have we seen that before?

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Summary: Thrilling
Review: Fast paced... enjoyable and definately kept you going. A real page turner. I'm definately going to try more of Stephen Frey's stuff. Sure did good with my first one.

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Summary: Outstanding excitement - I read it in one night
Review: Frey's insight into the successful thirtysomething mentality was shocking. Andrew Falcon's character defies being played by any of the silverscreeners of today - Maybe Cary Grant of the old days could have done justice to him