The Midas Compulsion

About the Book

Son of a wealthy Atlanta family, Talmadge Candler was poised to take the helm of Decatur Savings and Loan, a company built by his grandfather during the depression, and captained by his father until his untimely death while Candler was still a youth. But within days of assuming the office occupied by his illustrious forbears, Candler suddenly finds his company the target of a hostile takeover attempt by a ruthless competitor, Granite Mountain Thrift, and its unscrupulousCEO, F. Paul Harrison. Caught unprepared, Candler is forced to agree to the merger of his firm into the competitor to prevent its destruction and liquidation. Named president of the combined firm, Candler quickly finds himself out maneuvered by a CEO who, driven by insatiable greed, appears systematically to be looting the firm to support his shaky real estate empire. When Candler attempts to get evidence to expose the activities he finds himself arrested and charged with crimes he did not commit. As he tries to clear his name events spiral further out of control. A friend’s sudden suicide turns out to be murder. An attempt is made on his own life. Candler’s one solace is his affair with the beautiful and seductive Dennison Baker. Dennison came with the management team from Granite, but she seems different. Or is she? What secret ambitions, what dreams of wealth and control drive her, as they drive the rest of the power-hungry elite? Writing as only an insider can, Dowdle weaves a taut narrative of life at the top of the corporate ladder, a world where the size of one’s bank account is limited only by the depth of one’s greed, and where even the cost of a human life can be crunched with the rest of the numbers into a neat and tidy figure that some are willing to pay.

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