Emma Lathén, pseudonym dvojice amerických byznysmenek, proslula svými detektivními romány. Jejich díla často zkoumají složité motivy ze světa byznysu a financí, ponořené do napínavých zápletek. Důraz je kladen na inteligentní dialogy a propracované postavy, které oživují svět korporátních intrik. Tyto příběhy nabízejí pronikavý pohled na lidskou povahu v prostředí vysokých sázek.
The Sloan Guaranty Trust has too much invested in an international development venture to alienate Greece's right-wing military leaders. But when the Sloan's representative in Athens suddenly disappears after being linked with a murdered leftist, the bank is embroiled in a full-scale military coup. Then senior bank officer Everett Gabler vanishes. And John Putnam Thatcher must enter a deadly political drama - to outwit a malevolent behind-the-scenes player and prevent a modern tragedy!
This crime story with the banker/investigator John Putnam Thatcher is set against the glamour and fierce rivalry of the Winter Olympics. It exposes a devious financial scandal within the Olympic village.
The St. Bernadette's Parents League was formed to save the old, bankrupt parochial school from being replaced by a twenty-story apartment house. The irate protesters had sentiment and Francis P. Omara on their side, Unger Realty had John Putnam Thatcher of Sloan Guaranty Trust, four million dollars, and the Archdiocese of New York behind them. Francis P. Omara was a powerful spokesman for his cause - but so was an unknown killer with a butcher's mallet who was determined to have the last word.... And so John Putnam Thatcher, the Sloan's urbane V.P., finds himslef out of Wall Street, in the heart of Queens, and smack in the middle of unholy murder!
