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by Stephen Frey (Author) "Give me more," the young woman murmured ..." (more)
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Like many American fathers, Jimmy Lee Hancock likes to get nice things for his kids. Teddy, his eldest son, got the CEO slot at Warfield Capital, the Hancock's multibillion dollar hedge fund. Bo, the black sheep trading genius who actually runs Warfield, got the title of chief operating officer. And if good-looking Paul's a really good boy, he can trade in that musty old Connecticut governorship for a shiny, new U.S. presidency.

But first things first. Things like removing the hard-drinking, carousing, possibly womanizing, PR-nightmare-in-the-making Bo to a family compound in Montana and replacing him with duplicitous trading whiz Frank Ramsey. And with Bo tucked away from the prying eyes of the press, Jimmy Lee can ice Paul's presidential cake by cooking his primary opponent's political goose with career-destroying evidence. The evidence, offered for sale by a deeply covered government cabal with an eye towards global domination, is Jimmy Lee's for a mere $2 billion.

Meanwhile, literally back at the ranch, Bo gets word from a trusted Warfield insider that Ramsey's up to no fiscal good. Then Jimmy Lee suffers a heart attack and the loose-lipped Warfield snitch wakes up dead. As Bo returns to Manhattan to see Jimmy Lee, reclaim his rightful place, and rid the shop of rats, bodies drop like autumn leaves and the plot, Yogi Berra-like, comes to frequent and ever-more sinister forks in the road and gleefully takes them all.

And very effectively, too. Frey's no world-class writer. His characters tend to be as one-dimensional as their dialogue is wooden, but readers who notice likely won't care a whit. As a world-class financier (formerly in mergers and acquisitions at J.P. Morgan, now with a private equity firm), Frey knows the ins and outs of very high finance and has an historical and bestselling knack (see The Insider, The Legacy, The Inner Sanctum, etc.) for weaving that knowledge into intricate, gripping, and bankable plots. Trust Fund's among them. --Michael Hudson --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.



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Family political aspirations lead to corporate collusion with a rogue cadre of U.S. congressional and intelligence agents bent on co-opting the resources of the Internet and the military industrial complex in this high-octane conspiracy thriller. Jimmy Lee Hancock, the Joe Kennedyesque patriarchal head of a massive family-owned hedge fund, Warfield Capital, secretly approves the diversion of $2 billion to the cadre in exchange for evidence smearing his son Paul's presidential primary opponents. Youngest son Bo has brilliantly maneuvered Warfield Capital to the top of the Wall Street heap, but eldest son Teddy gets all the credit. When Bo makes millions for the firm on the gold market, he and his wife, Meg, find themselves inexplicably exiled to Montana by Jimmy Lee, ostensibly because Bo's drinking and potential womanizing might ruffle Paul's campaign. Frank Ramsey, a man Bo distrusts, replaces Bo as COO, becoming the first family outsider to wield company power. When a Warfield exec dies soon after alerting Bo to a shady money deal, and Hancock senior has a heart attack, Bo races back to Manhattan just in time to be told a devastating family secret. A showdown with Ramsey sparks a hardball attack by the secret cadre, and the bodies start piling up as Bo battles enemies inside and outside the family. Bo's ultimate weapon is his knowledge of finance, and real-life financier Frey (The Insider, etc.) cleverly incorporates the workings of Wall Street, global economics and the wired world into his melodramatic plot. The reader always learns something new about finance from Frey's suspenseful outings. (Jan 2.) Forecast: Any novel by the author of The Insider is going to get attention (a sample chapter of Trust Fund will be included in the mass market edition of The Insider, also due out in January), and bookstore and author media appearances in D.C. and New York will give this title an extra boost. This book should chart well.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A good one, Jun 15 2004
By David A. Spearman (Harbor Beach, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews
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Read this one in less than three days and was gardening in between. I love financial stories and this is a good one. Not only loaded with action,the stocks and funds running wild but a multi billion dollar family doing all the directing with all the dislike of one another that could be possible. The intriquing quirk within the story line of a hi-tech idea of mind control handled with CIA type influence also made this greatly to my likes. I have enjoyed all of Stephen Frey's novels and will look forward to more of the same.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A so so book from mr. frey, Dec 22 2003
By T. A Kelley "kelleyt" (pueblo, colorado United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trust Fund (Hardcover)
The hancocks are a very wealthy family established in connecticut who run a multibillion hedge fund.All of the workings over looked by the father jimmy lee hancock.There are 5 children of jimmy lees , bo hancock who is the ceo of the massive fund he has a reputation for heavy drinking and womanizing. Paul hancock who with political clout from jimmy lee's friends is making a run for the presidency.Even though bo is very successful at managing the fund and making 10's to 100's of millions of dollars his reputation appears to having an affect to pauls campaign so jimmy sends him off to montana for a year but is that the real reason for sending him or is there something greater to hide especially as executives and ceo's start ending up dead. I do not think this was one of frey's better books but it does have some fast action
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1.0 out of 5 stars Aaaarrrggh!, Nov 20 2003
By RD (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
How the heck can Stephen Frey even put his name to this one? How can Fawcett even have agreed to publish this; oh, wait a minute, this is Fawcett Books. Stephen Frey sure as heck is not a John Grisham or Tom Clancy or Dan Brown, but come on...

The writing is cheap. The characters are lacking, and their development (along with the story's) is reminiscent of "see dog run." "Trust Fund" had to have been a joke or a mistake.

I started reading this book on a flight to LA, but found it more interesting and stimulating to put it down and stare at the seatback in front of me. I tried again at my hotel during my stay; no luck, anything was better than trudging through the "Trust Fund" muck with Bo & Co. Finally, before checking out, I made the decision to leave the "Trust Fund" in the hotel room. Good riddance.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointed
A very quick read with a boring ending. I've read most of Frey's books and this one was way below average
Published on Jul 25 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars A fast read
I have never finished a book so fast! In three sittings I read it from cover to cover!
Published on Jan 23 2003 by jhd1013

2.0 out of 5 stars From Hot.........too Not
I had this book sitting on my shelf for about a one year. I was saving it. I wanted to read all of my lesser books before I read this one because I expected it to be an amazing... Read more
Published on Jan 10 2003 by Derek

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, even with low expectations
I picked up this paperback at the airport, because I needed something to read on the plane, and I thought I remembered reading another one of Frey's novels (don't ask me which... Read more
Published on Oct 12 2002 by Clinton C. Macgowan

2.0 out of 5 stars Page turner
Not painful. The pages keep turning. But ho hum...

This book has some promise in the beginning. I thought I was going to learn something new. Read more

Published on Aug 8 2002 by djbrkns

4.0 out of 5 stars Great!
I thought this was an excellent read. This is the first novel I have read by Frey and it was great! The character Bo Hancock was very cool. Read more
Published on April 2 2002

1.0 out of 5 stars Just Awful
I picked this up off a used book pile in a bookstore, and luckily only paid 50 cents for it. Never read anything by Stephen Frey before, and never will again. Read more
Published on Mar 31 2002

1.0 out of 5 stars Wish I hadn't bought it
One of the most contrived "novels" I have read in several years. Each action was so implausible that often the author stopped in his tracks and created a little... Read more
Published on Mar 10 2002 by Mayo Quin

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read
This book was a great read. It is the type of book that after you read one chapter you must read the next one.
Published on Feb 27 2002 by Laird

2.0 out of 5 stars If you like weak characters, you will love this book
Because I liked what Frey did with the plot in the first book I read of his (The Insider), I was willing to forgive some very serious flaws in his writing and decided to read... Read more
Published on Feb 7 2002 by Bruce Tracy

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