A great family of merchant bankers, infected by the poison of ambition and greed. For the Pilasters, sex and love are weapons in a war for power and wealth. One explosive secret becomes the weak link that can bring down a dynasty. In 1866, tragedy strikes at an exclusive public school. A pupil drowns in a mysterious accident involving several boys. Among them ate young High Pilaster; his cousin Edward, the weak, dissolute heir to the Pilaster banking fortune; and Micky Miranda, the darkly handsome son of a brutal South ...
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A great family of merchant bankers, infected by the poison of ambition and greed. For the Pilasters, sex and love are weapons in a war for power and wealth. One explosive secret becomes the weak link that can bring down a dynasty. In 1866, tragedy strikes at an exclusive public school. A pupil drowns in a mysterious accident involving several boys. Among them ate young High Pilaster; his cousin Edward, the weak, dissolute heir to the Pilaster banking fortune; and Micky Miranda, the darkly handsome son of a brutal South American landowner. The drowning and its aftermath initiate a spiralling circle of treachery that will last three decades and entwine many lives...Spanning the years when an empire tightens its grip on a faraway world and revolution begets a tide of violent change, A Dangerous Fortune portrays a family bound inexorably by a shared legacy, and brings us men and women swept towards a perilous climax where greed, fed by the shocking truth of a boy's death, must be stopped otherwise not just one man's dreams, but those of a nation, will die.
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Add this copy of Dangerous Fortune to cart. $29.03, very good condition, Sold by Alpha 2 Omega Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southampton, HANTS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1994 by Chivers Large print.
Edition:
1994, Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
Publisher:
Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
Published:
1994
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10218889989
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Very good in Very good jacket. VGC. Chivers Press, 1994. Large print edition. Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small tear and crease on the edges of the spine) with laminated Dj(some scratches, creases and small nicks on the laminated cover), both in VGC. Ex-Library book with pocket and stamps. Nice and clean pages with a mark, some ink marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges, some creases and nicks on the edges of the pages, two marks and a small pen mark on the edges of the last two blank pages of the book. The book is in VGC with light shelf wear.887pp. Please note: This is heavy book(approx 1.5 Kg).
