The protege
Christian Gillette, Chairman of Everest Capital, private equity firm, is approached by a mysterious man who claims to represent "certain interests in Washington, D.C.", with an offer involving the only currency more valuable to him than money: information about the mother he never knew and the truth about his father's suspicious death. All he has to do is play ball with a shadowy government agency that's guarding a new technology that could be humanity's greatest tool . or its deadliest weapon …
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- Full title :The protege.
Summary
Christian Gillette, Chairman of Everest Capital, private equity firm, is approached by a mysterious man who claims to represent "certain interests in Washington, D.C.", with an offer involving the only currency more valuable to him than money: information about the mother he never knew and the truth about his father's suspicious death. All he has to do is play ball with a shadowy government agency that's guarding a new technology that could be humanity's greatest tool . or its deadliest weapon of terror, to access the secrets of his past. Complicating matters are his young protege, who's hiding a horrific secret, and the feisty scion of a mega-rich investing family who's bought her way into Everest and has a taste for control and an eye on more than the bottom line.
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- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Ballantine
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
The Physical Object
- Description:313 pages
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0345480589, 9780345480583
- oclc:ocn694258641
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
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