A Dangerous Fortune

A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780330332651.

By the 1860s, the Pilasters are one of the worlds greatest banking families, with connections that reach from the City of London to far-afield colonies. However, as the family grow ever richer in the shadow of oppression and tragedy, their very future is threatened - by the self-same ambition and greed that first earned them their fortune. A full-blooded melodrama, complete with moustache-twirling villains, saintly heroes, wronged women, and a lot of plot Irish Times Banks, brothels, and a high body count ...its all there Financial Times A compulsively readable, enjoyable thriller-cum-saga Sunday Times