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At thirty-nine, Nancy Kissel had it all: glamour, gusto, garishly flaunted wealth, and the royal lifestyle of the expatriate wife. Not to mention three young children and what a friend described as "the best marriage in the universe."
Simon & Schuster
October 2007
On Sale: October 14, 2007
368 pages
ISBN: 0743296362
EAN: 9780743296366
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | True Crime
That marriage -- to Merrill Lynch and former Goldman Sachs
investment banker Robert Kissel -- ended abruptly one
November night in 2003 in the bedroom of their luxury
apartment high above Hong Kong's glittering Victoria Harbour. Why? Hong Kong prosecutors, who charged Nancy with murder, said
she wanted to inherit Rob's millions and start a new life
with a blue-collar lover who lived in a New Hampshire
trailer park. She said she'd killed in self-defense while fighting for her
life against an abusive, cocaine-addicted husband who had
forced her for years to submit to his brutal sexual demands. Her 2005 trial, lasting for months and rich in lurid detail,
captivated Hong Kong's expatriate community and attracted
attention worldwide. Less than a year after the jury of
seven Chinese citizens returned its unexpected verdict,
Rob's brother, Andrew, a Connecticut real estate tycoon
facing prison for fraud and embezzlement, was also found
dead: stabbed in the back in the basement of his
multimillion-dollar Greenwich mansion by person or persons
unknown. Never Enough is the harrowing true story of these two
brothers, Robert and Andrew Kissel, who grew up wanting to
own the world but instead wound up murdered half a world
apart; and of Nancy Kissel, a riddle wrapped inside an
enigma, a modern American woman for whom having it all might
not have been enough. In this singularly compelling narrative, Joe McGinniss --
past master at exposing the dark heart of the American
family in the bestsellers Fatal Vision, Blind Faith, and
Cruel Doubt -- explores his darkest and most disturbing
subject yet: a smart and beautiful family so corroded by
greed that it destroys itself from within. Here is a family saga almost biblical in its tragic
proportion but dazzlingly modern in flavor -- and utterly
unstoppable in its pulsating narrative drive. From the
shimmering skyscrapers and greed-drenched bustle of Hong
Kong to the moneyed hush and hauteur of backcountry
Greenwich, McGinniss lures readers irresistibly forward, as
this twisted tale of ambition gone mad and love gone bad
rushes to its terrible, inexorable conclusion.
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