From traffic control to Customs hall, from the airport manager's office to lay-over apartments in `Stewardesses' Row' the rooms are filled with men and women whose private pressures and passions match the fury of the blizzard that sweeps across...
Es ist Montagabend. In dem luxuriösen St. Gregory Hotel in New Orleans herrscht Hochbetrieb. Doch alles klappt wie am Schnürchen: beim Empfang, auf den Etagen, in den weitläufigen Restaurationsräumen, in der Bar, in Küche und Keller. Man...
Hours before he is due to set off on a long-delayed and much-deserved vacation with his wife and son, Det.-Sgt. Malcolm Ainslie takes a phone call he would have been better off ignoring. The caller is the chaplain at Florida State Prison,...
As the novel begins, the position of CEO of one of America's largest banks, First Mercantile American (very loosely based on the Bank of America, although it is located in an unnamed Midwestern city) is about to become vacant due to the terminal...
Die First Mercantile American Bank, eine der zwanzig größter Banken der Vereinigten Staaten, auf Tradition gegründet, scheint ein Hort der Sicherheit und Stabilität. Hinter der glänzenden Fassade aber herrschen Zwietracht, Unfähigkeit und...