Van Zale

Paul Van Zale has earned his place among New York City's high-finance elite, but his ambition and outsize ego may be his downfall. In public, Paul Van Zale and his partners at his Wall Street investment bank are exemplary citizens and pillars of the community. In private, however, their lives are riven by jealousy, ambition, hatred, and lust. When the clever and sexy Dinah Slade insinuates herself into Paul's life in the 1920s, the banker's marriage and career are threatened, and Dinah demonstrates her disruptive power again when she seduces Paul's right-hand man. Based on a true historical story, the life of Cleopatra, which Howatch updated to the 1920s and 1930s in New York and London, The Rich Are Different marries imperial ambition to the American dream, and offers a cast of characters glittering with sophistication and style.   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Howatch including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.

Cornelius Van Zale has the talent and ambition to unite his family's New York banking empire, but his heart is trapped in the past. Cornelius Van Zale considers himself lucky to have reached the top rank of his great-uncle's Wall Street bank. But along with the banker's gilded lifestyle comes a world of complicated affairs, bitter rivalries, and decades of unfinished business. As young Cornelius struggles to suppress the memories of his brutal past, he comes to realize with horror that his beautiful daughter Vicky is being used as a pawn by powerful men determined to have their revenge on him. With Sins of the Fathers, Susan Howatch creates a striking and provocative sequel to her bestselling novel The Rich Are Different.   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Howatch including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.