The Insider Jay West has worked at National City Bank as an account officer for the six years since he graduated from college. A somewhat ordinary job with a short ladder to climb to get to the top. He has been lured to the prestigious investment banking firm of McCarthy & Lloyd with the promise of a mega-bucks bonus each January. Oliver Mason is the director of the arbitrage section of McCarthy & Lloyd where Jay will be working. Oliver has a violent temper, an unquenchable desire for money and status, and is a user—of drugs and people. Bill McCarthy, the head honcho, has a big ‘in’ with the U.S. President, knows Oliver has been making big money off insider trading, and is about to hand him over to the feds. Oliver thinks he knows what’s going on and Jay will be the sacrificial lamb. Then there’s Sally Lane, the other vice president hired a month after Jay. Carter Bullock is Oliver’s second-in-command and has no use for Jay. Such a happy work environment. A co-worker is murdered. Jay is followed as he tries to figure out just who Sally is. No one trusts anyone else. As the story gathers steam at a moderate pace, more twists and turns show up. And since this is fiction, you have to take Jay’s actions with a grain of salt. Just remember—you can’t trust anyone, and money doesn’t buy happiness. |