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What the Most Hyped Financial Thriller of the Summer Gets Right
The Banker’s Wife, a new novel from Cristina Alger, tracks a group of globe-trotting financial criminals and the women who love them.
Money is haircuts whenever you want. Money, also, is the ability to have people killed. In Cristina Alger’s new novel, The Banker’s Wife (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $27), a world of wealth is one of both heady excess and rotting corruption.
A lot of rich men throw their money and power around in this thriller peppered with British secret agents, encrypted messages, and murders to solve. Thankfully, a few good women are prepared to take them to task.