"It pays to be diligent...or does it?"
Reviewed by Tina Avon
Posted June 29, 2011
Thriller
Reading thrillers can be fun, especially if they are set in
a world that you find fascinating and fortunately, for me,
this was the case with DUE DILIGENCE. This thriller being
set in the world of high finance went a long way in proving
that people with more money always seem to *need* even more. DUE DILIGENCE introduces us to two of the most greedy
main characters I have ever met - Investment bank Dyson
Whitney and CEO Mike Wilson. As Wilson suddenly becomes
highly interested in participating in a deal to obtain
BritEnergy, you can actually see the wheels spinning out of
control - which will set the plot for a very
entertaining novel about people with too much money and
absolutely no conscience. However, all is not lost as Rob Holding enters the mix -
hired to complete the standard due diligence on the entire
deal, he finds some very odd things and, when he brings
them to his employer, things start to spiral out of control
in a very dangerous way. This story is fast paced, for the most part, and gives us
an exclusive insider view of just how corrupt and
horrible these huge institutions (and those who run them)
can truly be. I can't count the number of times I found myself nodding my
head in disbelief at what I was reading - yet, at the same
time, I had no problems believing it. This book is both shocking and lots of fun and is written
for the layperson in mind. You won't have to run to
your finance dictionary every time you read a sentence
SUMMARY
HE’S GOT THE DEAL OF HIS LIFE … NOW HE JUST HAS TO
SURVIVE IT When Louisiana-based CEO Mike Wilson needs to do a deal in a
hurry, he turns to Wall Street investment bank Dyson
Whitney. If they succeed in helping him buy transatlantic
rival BritEnergy, there’ll be a $70 million fee. If they
fail, there’s nothing. Rookie associate Rob Holding is thrown onto the team, doing
due diligence at the investment bank. He quickly finds
reason to suspect that there’s more to the urgency of this
deal than Mike Wilson has revealed. With their eyes on a
huge fee, no one else at Dyson Whitney wants to know if
there are problems. But when a body turns up and Rob
realizes it was meant to be him, he has no choice but to
prove that he’s right – or die in the attempt. Due Diligence is set vividly in the post-credit-crunch world
of international big business, the suspense never lets up as
the action swings from war room to boardroom, from New York
to London and back again in this action-packed and
lightning-fast thriller.
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