The Fourth Account

Autumn Lee, a beautiful Chinese lawyer,
and Dan OConnell, a handsome and
brilliant investment banker, have all the
right credentials from top universities and
firms, and appear to be a highly successful
young couple climbing the ladder of success,
money and power in New York. Yet
each has a secret larcenous streak nurtured
by a deep resentment of others wealth and
a desire for much more immediate gratifi -
cation. Th is quietly foments in them as
they develop a plan to take advantage of
their unique knowledge of global fi nance
to steal millions - without having to work
decades to earn it.

When fortune provides them the chance
to move to Hong Kong together, Autumn
fi nds her developing ethnic awareness as a
Chinese woman in a Chinese city becoming
a larger and larger part of her attitudes
and feelings, and other men interest her
too. Unknown to her, her father has kept
track of her all these years and suddenly
she learns she has family, but her fathers
position comes as a shock to her and sets
the stage for the culmination of the incredible
theft she and Dan began to plan
long ago.

Intrigue, exotic locales, the little seen
worlds of investment banking, corporate
law and global money, beautiful women,
sailing and crime come together in this
dynamic, highly readable new novel.