The Banker's Wife

Cristina Alger

The Banker's Wife
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Country
United States
Published
16 April 2019
Pages
368
ISBN
9780735218475

The Banker’s Wife

Cristina Alger

Immersive, satisfying, tense—and timely: This is probably happening for real right now. –Lee Child

First-rate…Slick, heart-hammering entertainment. –The New York Times Book Review

On an early morning in November, a private plane bound for Geneva drops off the radar, its wreckage uncovered days later in the Alps. Among the disappeared is Matthew Werner, an insider at Swiss United, a powerful offshore bank. His young widow, Annabel, begins a desperate search for answers and quickly determines that Matthew’s death was no accident. She soons finds herself in a terrifying cat-and-mouse chase, on the run from his powerful enemies, who will stop at nothing to hide the truth.

Meanwhile, ambitious society journalist Marina Tourneau has finally landed at the top. With her engagement to Grant Ellis, she is set to become one of the elite she has spent a career covering, but, after the death of her mentor, she agrees to dig into one more story: Swiss United. In doing so, Marina uncovers information that implicates some of the most powerful men in the financial world, including a few who are too close to home. The story also could be the answer to Annabel’s heartbreaking search–and save her life–if Marina chooses to publish it…

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