Ken Follett - Veszélyes gazdagság (2022)

In the 1860s, the Pilasters were one of the largest banking families. Their financial transactions extended from the City of London to the distant colonies. For decades, the family grew rich, but their loss was ultimately caused by a woman's greed, lust for power and greed. Augusta Pilaster, who went to the rich Pilaster boy out of interest, scheming until she becomes the matriarch of the family. She controls the affairs of the bank from the background through her easily influenced and lazy husband, her undisclosed goal is to get her weak and spoiled son, Edward, into the bank's director's seat. His shrewd and unscrupulous manipulations ultimately bankrupt the bank. Hugh Pilaster, the poor relative, the orphan of a bankrupt banker, is the brains of the family, who makes the bank more and more successful with his cleverness and ethics, thus posing a threat to Augusta's ideas about her son. Hugh's "weak point" is that he can only imagine working women as companions, and he also chooses a hatter as his wife. Augusta tries to ruin and discredit Hugh through this woman who is inexperienced in social life. Micky Miranda, the son of a power-hungry South American landowner, attends the same prestigious private school as Edward and Hugh Pilaster. In the boarding school, a boy mysteriously drowns, and during the reconstruction of what happened, Micky, who is corrupted to the core, discovers how Augusta Pilaster can be blackmailed... One of Ken Follett's best-selling novels full of excitement and twists and turns, which can only be put down once you have reached the end human.