The Geneva Connection

With this page-turner, Bodenham aspires to do for fund managers what John Grisham has done for lawyers  Corporate Financier Magazine. The intricate plot, laced with just enough background information to make it realistic and understandable, takes twist after turn until you reach the final destination, white-knuckling it all the way. From the Back CoverThe Geneva Connection has a menacing opening with a hook and a barb to make the hook stick.  Thriller readers are hooked, barbed and immediately reeled in.  The narrative mesmerizes from the outset.  The pace is swift and the action enough to make any reader's toes curl in frightening expectation   Art Cockerill, Writer and Journalist I couldn't put The Geneva Connection down once I started it. An intense thrill ride through the world of investment bank

Good Thriller With A Twist for an Ending Michael Gallagher With a background in accounting and having worked on a lot of private and public equity deals in the 90's, I found this to be a pretty good thriller - in addition to the usual intrigue with the bad guys, I found I could relate a little bit to the financial side of the house in some respects.The author does a pretty good job of getting you inside the head of his characters, and I guarantee many of you will have some daydreaming moments of "what if" with respect to suddenly being in charge of billions of untraceable dollars. Without having a spoiler, I will tell you the author does a heck of a job having you think. "The Geneva Connection: What an interesting ride!" according to Donna Del Oro. Just finished Martin Bodenham's THE GENEVA CONNECTION, a thinking man's thriller. What an interesting ride! I learned about global economics and financing as well as the inner workings of a ruthless Mexican drug cartel. The story was suspenseful throughout and the characters well drawn and believable. Twists and turns in the plot kept me in suspense, but the climax was indeed a surprise. Kent was a convincing Machiavellian character whom you both condemned and rooted for. You knew all along there weren't going to be any winners in this game of high finance and despicable violence. Hurrah for Kent's wife--althoug. I think Roger Ebert had the right idea when he I think Roger Ebert had the right idea when he decided to rate films on their own terms. "Schindler's List" can't fairly be rated on the same criteria as, for example, "Lethal Weapon." This is because the two have different purposes and, to a large extent, different tools to achieve them.(btw: I'm not saying that all mysteries/thrillers/procedurals can't be--or aspire to be--what we call "literature." Rather, I'm saying that most don't try, and if these books succeed on their own terms we should recognize that fact.)Looked at this way, "The Geneva Connection" is a success. It's fast and ably paced, not overly fu

Brilliant investor John Kent is living his dream. The success of his private equity firm has propelled him into the ranks of the world's super-rich, allowing him to give his family the security and advantages he didn’t have in his own childhood.But John's dream is shattered with the discovery that his largest investor is bankrolled by the most vicious drug cartel in Mexico. If he resists the DEA, what will happen to his family while he's imprisoned? But the alternative is worse. Then one of his partners is murdered to guarantee his silence, and John realizes he cannot cooperate with the authorities.When the ambitious head of the DEA threatens John with incarceration, his nightmare is complete. For if John chooses to betray the cartel, he and his family will pay the ultimate price.