Van Zale

The Rich Are Different is the story of Dinah Slade, a young English woman of immense vitality and sensual power, whose life becomes intertwined with the fate of a great American banking family. When the handsome and powerful American banker Paul Van Zale meets Dinah in London, he commits the imprudence of falling in love.

Set in the years of sudden prosperity following World War II, in the mansions and boardrooms of the Van Zale family, Sins of the Fathers is the story of a ruthless dynastic struggle to control the Van Zale fortune. From generation to generation, this obsession possesses the rival claimants, eventually destroying their happiness and their lives. When the world of the Van Zales—with its servants and country houses, polite marriages and discreet affairs—begins to fall apart, we begin to see as it really is: rife with ruthlessness, secret sex, blackmail, and violence.