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The Tainted Trust

By: Stephen Douglass
Narrated by: Mathias Lenssen
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Volume two of The King Trilogy, The Tainted Trust is, in addition to a moving and action-packed thriller, a brilliant depiction of what perfectly normal people will do for love and money. It is the continuing story of an inconvenient fortune and its catastrophic impact on a loving family.

No one wept when Jim Servito died. He left an estate amounting to $325,000,000 when his wife, Karen, killed him in Caracas. He had accumulated the fortune the old fashioned way: He stole it from the U.S. and Canadian governments using a brilliant gasoline tax evasion scam. The money is hot, deposited in a Cayman Island bank, and it's cursed. It has a profound affect on everyone who touched it. It is managed by Alfred Schnieder, an aging and unscrupulous Caracas banker.

Mike King, the love of Karen's life, and nearly ruined by the Feds' scorched-earth efforts to recover Servito's fortune, convinces her to keep the money, instead of returning it to its rightful owners. With the assistance of Schnieder, they form The King Trust, a near fatal mistake. Desperate to recover the money, the Feds continue to spare no expense and effort to do so. Phillip, the only child of Karen and Jim Servito, assumes he is the natural heir to his father's fortune, and has his own greedy plans for the money. Aging Alfred Schnieder relinquishes the trust's management to Louis Visconti, a 32-year-old Wall Street whiz kid and brilliant financial engineer. Dubbed "The Crown Prince of Wall Street", and substantially more unscrupulous than Schnieder, Visconti takes The King Trust to bewildering heights, then fails, miserably.

Kerri Pyper, Mike King's 23-year-old estranged daughter, has not seen or communicated with her father since she was nine. She discovers the existence of The King Trust and is shocked to learn that her natural father is its Trustee. Visconti, desperate and assuming he is still the smartest man in the room, embezzles the fortune and flees to Monaco. He made only two mistakes: He deceived both Mike King and Alfred Schnieder and fell in love with Kerri.

©Jan. 9, 2014 Stephen Douglass (P)2014 Stephen Douglass
Crime Fiction Suspense Romantic Suspense
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