The Boss's Wife - Hardcover

Stebel, S. L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802711987 ISBN 13: 9780802711984

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1992

Synopsis

Computer wiz kid Jack Noble is confident that his unauthorized "withdrawals" from the bank he works for will continue to go unnoticed, but the nosy new bank manager and his incredibly seductive wife could derail his well-laid plans

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From Kirkus Reviews

The mildly dishonest chief of data processing at an L.A. megabank gets a new boss and learns how dishonest you can be if you really have imagination. Stebel (Spring Thaw, 1989, etc.), who genre hops, happily returns to thrillers. Contrary to the clich‚ of computer-whiz as techno-nerd, Jack Noble draws women like flies. Sadly for them, however, Noble's mind is usually on other things. Gambling, overambitious home-building plans, a father in a nursing home, and that pesky recession have reduced Noble and his dog Roger to living out of Jack's panel truck. His plans for a little fiddle with some ghostly, interest- bearing accounts at the bank where he supervises a bevy of data- entering beauties are about to pay off, but then, worse luck, his boss commits suicide and a team of auditors and the boss's replacement storm in, kicking Jack out while they look for electronic embezzlement. Then a cute-meet with the new boss's extraordinarily attractive young wife, an amazon who carries a briefcase full of unmarked currency, puts Jack on the trail of the people he thought were trailing him. It seems the boss's wife, if she is the boss's wife, is being blackmailed, having posed for some exceptionally embarrassing photos, and the boss, if he is still the boss, is working some fiddles of his own. A thoroughly confusing situation becomes thoroughly dangerous when Jack goes to the trunk of the boss's car and finds an attractive corpse. Before he has things sorted out, Jack will lose not only his girl but his trusty dog. There will also be shocking events in a Phoenix funeral parlor. Rather slapdash but rather funny. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly

Computer whiz Jack B. Noble has a nice little scam going. Tapping into the central data system of his employer, Metrobank, he controls a high-tech pyramid that moves CD funds into a dummy account he has set up electronically to collect interest. But this is nothing compared to the multimillion-dollar leak Metrobank's auditors have discovered. Most of the intrigue in this fast-paced L.A. crime novel involves Jenny Harris, the boss's wife, who piques Jack's interest when he looks inside a bag of her personal effects mistakenly left at the office and discovers $25,000 in crisp new bills. Soon Jack finds himself following Jenny, rescuing her from a suicide attempt and falling in love with her. Trying to help her fend off a blackmail attempt, he becomes the prime embezzlement suspect and a murder target; he must elude the police and the real embezzlers while he clears himself. Although astute readers may quickly guess who is behind all the mayhem, Stebel ( Spring Thaw ) provides enough plot twists, computer tricks and zippy dialogue to produce a top-notch thriller.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0802711987
• ISBN 13: 9780802711984
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 227