Rating: 
Summary: One in a million
Review: Having been a banker myself, I am always disappointed at how
badly financial mysteries are researched and don't really
capture the dynamics of the market. However, Frey, who is a banker
himself, knows exactly what he is writing about. The plot is superb, with its many twists and surprises. This is a book that
gives you a glimpse into the high powered world of investment banking and is extremely entertaining, for both
insiders and outsiders. I lent the book to my brother, who
is an investment banker and never has time to read for pleasure. He
read the book in a couple of days and loved it! What else do I
need to say?!
Rating:
Summary: One in a million
Review: Having been a banker myself, I am always disappointed at howbadly financial mysteries are researched and don't reallycapture the dynamics of the market. However, Frey, who is a banker himself, knows exactly what he is writing about. The plot is superb, with its many twists and surprises. This is a book that gives you a glimpse into the high powered world of investment banking and is extremely entertaining, for both insiders and outsiders. I lent the book to my brother, who is an investment banker and never has time to read for pleasure. He read the book in a couple of days and loved it! What else do I need to say?!
Rating: 
Summary: Financial intrigue and presidential aspirations
Review: His name is Andrew Falcon ( we never learn his true name) and he is one of Wall Street's wiz kids. Falcon learns the ins and outs of investment banking, but decides to leave the street and pursue a dream. Un fortunately for Falcon he crosses the very powerful.Four years later Falcon become embroiled in a take over of the Penn mark chemical company. In a very short period of time he puts together a $35 billion take over deal. But things aren't quite right. He keeps running into hints and murmurs - the deal starts to fail the smell test. By the time Falcon figures out things are really going wrong, it is far too late to stop the financial machine from completing it's TAKE OVER. An interesting read. Frey paints conspiracy to control the fate of the Presidency with assassin bullets. Well worth the time.
Rating:
Summary: Can't wait for the film
Review: I can just imagine Tom Cruise playing the Andrew Falcon (why not Will Smith ?) lead for the screenplay. A real page turner, and brilliant ending. READ ! The "John Grisham" of financial thrillers...
Rating: 
Summary: But Can I Really Recommend it?
Review: I had fun with the Take Over, but I don't know how strongly I can recommend it. Yes, its got all the elemets of a good thriller, but there are just so many other books that are so much better.
Go read A Civil Action by Johnathan Harr, it's a much much better book.
Rating:
Summary: Awesome
Review: I have just completed Frey's "The Takeover". The book just grabs you and sucks you into the story. I felt that I was right in the middle of the investment banking capitol of the world: Wall Street. I am a stockbroker myself, and I highly recommend this book to all brokers that feel that they need some spice in their life. I just hope my clients are not like this
Rating: 
Summary: A lot like Grisham - and that is not a compliment.
Review: If you like Grisham, you will like this. But I don't like Grisham and I did not like this. It seems to me that works of this sort offer up a plot that moves and not much else. No charaters, no style, no ambience. My preference is for well developed characters, dialogue that is more than plot points and a narrator that can find some subtle nuances. This is more like: Andrew Falcon was smart because he played good poker and the narrator says so. Winthrop is evil because he is manipulative and because the narrator says so. The girlfiend was true because she was a simpleton and the narrator says so. Where is the artistry in that? I also don't like cheap plot devices such as an ex-CIA operative who makes every dirty trick happen so easily. From what comic book did that come from?
Rating:
Summary: Great, but watch out, you can't stop reading!!!
Review: Love the book. I started with the trust fund of S. Frey and loved it. The takeover is a highly detailed book, which picks you up and only puts you down at the last page. Great to read. Anybody know more books like this one???
Rating:
Summary: Great
Review: Loved it. The money, power, sex and violence and characters that could be loved or hated; Enough said
Rating:
Summary: Great
Review: Loved it. The money, power, sex and violence and characters that could be loved or hated; Enough said
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