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NSL Book Club @SAC with Cristina Alger

NSL: Never Stop Learning Summer Book Club Series presents CRISTINA ALGER, author of The Banker's Wife

Monday, August 27 | 3 PM | $15 ($10 for Friends of SAC)

Join author Cristina Alger for an intimate discussion about her new novel, The Bankers Wife. For full engagement, we recommend reading the book before!

Wine and refreshments will be included.

On an early morning in November, a couple boards a private plane bound for Geneva, flying into a storm. Soon after, it simply drops off the radar, and its wreckage is later uncovered in the Alps. Among the disappeared is Matthew Lerner, a banking insider at Swiss United, a powerful offshore bank. His young widow, Annabel, is left grappling with the secrets he left behind, including an encrypted laptop and a shady client list. As she begins a desperate search for answers, she determines that Matthews death was no accident, and that she is now in the crosshairs of his powerful enemies.

Meanwhile, ambitious society journalist Marina Tourneau has finally landed at the top. Now that shes engaged to Grant Ellis, she will stop writing about powerful families and finally be a part of one. Her entry into the upper echelons of New Yorks social scene is more appealing than any article could ever be, but, after the death of her mentor, she agrees to dig into one more story. While looking into Swiss United, Marina uncovers information that implicates some of the most powerful men in the financial world, including a few who are too close to home. The story could also be the answer to Annabels heartbreaking searchif Marina chooses to publish it.

The Bankers Wife is both a high-stakes thriller and an inside look at the personal lives in the intriguing world of finance, introducing Cristina Alger as a powerful new voice in the genre.

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