Merger

by Sanjay Sanghoee

Overview

The 80s are over, but a new breed of corporate criminal has emerged-smarter and infinitely more dangerous. A gruesome murder kick-starts this explosive saga of greed, corruption and mayhem. Set in the secretive world of multi-billion dollar mergers and ruthless plays for money and power, Merger takes readers behind the closed doors of Wall Street to witness the shocking dealings of corrupt CEOs and unethical bankers who violate the public trust for their personal gain—-similar to the real-life incidents at Enron and WorldCom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765311139
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/01/2005
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

SANJAY SANGHOEE worked as an investment banker with the Media Group at Lazard Freres & Co., LLC, specializing in banking transcations for major companies, including Time Warner and Comcast, and for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein as a mergers and acquistion advisor. He lives in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

Editorial Reviews

Timely, gripping, and original.” —Chicago Tribune

“Sanjay Sanghoee's novel offers a timely, insightful read... Scenes of glamour and gore are décor for the first-hand knowledge that Sanghoee, formerly an investment banker with expertise in media and telecom, conveys with precision... The plot, like a speedway with hairpin curves, centers around an icily amoral CEO whose scheme for the takeover of a satellite company brings into play the heavy hitters and bit players that feed on M&A dealings.” —Barron's Weekly

“One compulsively readable book, with an understandably expert portrayal of a tough world, rather like James Bond meets The Bonfire of the Vanities. A great beach book, provided your CEO didn't see you reading it.” —Susan Shwartz, author of Hostile Takeover on Merger

“I thought a lot of the merger mania was madnees before, but I didn't know how murederous it was until I read Merger. The Firm meets Wall Street in this explosion of merger mayhem!” —Walter Wager, Edgar Award-winning author of Die Hard 2 on Merger

From the Publisher

A tepid, by-the-numbers thriller set in the world of Enron and WorldCom. "TriNet Communications was a monster," writes debut novelist and sometime investment banker Sanghoee. "With holdings in cable, entertainment, technology, fiber optic networks, and long-distance telephone services, the fifteen-year-old company had become a juggernaut in the world of media and telecommunications." Because Wall Street likes monsters, everyone in the money game loves Vikram Suri, a suave Oxbridge/Harvard type who runs TriNet and has big plans: he's going to continue the blitzkrieg-aggressive merger spree he began on taking over the company six years previous, and then he's going to sell out, quietly and quickly, and disappear to some South Seas island that has no extradition treaties. Good enough. Suri is a cool cat, but he's got a wide mean streak, evidenced by a fondness for dispatching enemies in the most brutal of ways, and usually minus a testicle or two apiece. Suri's enemies sometimes don't know they're his enemies, which makes him seem particularly ruthless in a kind of James Bond-baddie way. Arrayed for and against him are investment bankers Steve Brandt and Tom Carter, foot soldiers in a deal worth a bazillion bucks; Craig Michaels ("Nick Nolte in a good suit"), who despises brown people but loves green money; sexy Suzie Goldwater, an SEC investigator (who "had worked for a year at an advertising firm before cajoling her one and only daddy to land her this job"); New York Times reporter Amanda Fleming; and a host of other players, mostly minor, to provide a pool of villains and victims. Will Suri get away with it? Stay tuned as, in bite-sized episodes, he and his henchmen smuggle gold,double-cross anyone who crosses their path, relieve their foes of various anatomical units and have a fine old time to the last, when finally, finally, instant karma settles on our dark prince and puts a crimp in all his fun. And an end, thankfully, to this predictable tale.

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