Bottom Line, Marc Davis
Bottom Line, Marc Davis
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Bottom Line

Author: Marc Davis

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 7 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/15/2013


Synopsis

As the US and global economies in the twenty-first century head toward a major recession and companies worldwide struggle to survive, one businessman is tempted to turn to crime. Two strong businessmen who run a colossal international management consulting and accounting firm find themselves battling one another to save it, each proposing a different way of preventing its collapse. One is the CEO and founder, an amoral, ruthless megalomaniac; the other is the senior-most executive who expects to succeed the CEO as head of the company and a principled but flawed idealist. They were once as close as father and son, the older man mentor to the younger. Now their relationship collapses along with the economy, as their firm loses one blue-chip corporate client after another.A series of financial crimes ensue, instigated by the CEO, who uses fraudulent accounting to appear to help clients make their estimated profits while using insider trading to reap millions in personal profits. With the end in sight, he absconds with millions of dollars that had been held in trust in a partners bonus pool, forcing the younger man to hire a private eye to hunt him down.

About Marc Davis

Marc
Davis is the author of several children’s books and the novel Dirty Money, which was a finalist for
the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for best original PI paperback. He is a former commodity
broker at the Chicago Board of Trade and former newspaper reporter whose local
history column, Yesterday, ran for
more than five years in the Chicago
Tribune. A freelance journalist, his articles have been published in
national print and online periodicals and on the Harvard Medical School and
Johns Hopkins University consumer websites. He is also an award-winning painter
and art teacher.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bryan457 on August 10, 2010

A wealthy industrialist, Elmer Lippencott, is working, with the President's blessing, to open trade markets with Red China. When someone targets him and kills one of his sons, the President asks CURE to look into the matter, and keep Lippencott alive. Remo and Ruby are sent out to try and find out w......more

Goodreads review by Gilbert on April 20, 2021

In Bottom Line, Remo and Chiun are once again given the task of protecting people rather than killing them. In this case it is a wealthy and influential American family whose youngest members seem to be going crazy before killing themselves. They, of course, don’t seem to think there is anything to......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on May 29, 2020

#37 in the Destroyer series. Someone is killing off members of the powerful Lippingcott family. Remo & Chiun are called in to prevent destabilization of the dollar. Much chaos ensues.......more

Goodreads review by Carl on March 06, 2024

great nostalgia one i had not read yay happiness guilty faves anyway i enjoyed it......more

Goodreads review by Little on February 12, 2016

One of the big men's adventure series from the 70's than ran an impressive 145 books. The series while an adventure/action story is also full of satire toward much of the mainstream fads and icons of the time. An interesting main character and the sarcastic mentor makes this a funny action/adventure......more