How does a third-rate life insurance company in America's smallest state stop losing money and start raking in profits? They cheat. And kill. Take a brilliant scam that makes big bucks for top execs, a foolproof plan to move millions of dollars nearly risk-free into health-care (so credible that readers will suspect their own insurers), a deadly security enforcer--and add a poor 20-ish beauty fresh from grad school to gum up the works--and you get a top-notch thriller. Rhode Island's Provlife has skyrocketing profits and the lowest payouts in the industry when it makes a move into health insurance. Lovely Alex Tynan, a lowly new actuary, stumbles into a suspect stat, asks the wrong people the right questions and gets her bosses' attention in a bigger way than she imagined. A top v-p's fatal "accident" sends his secret mistress to Alex with tales of millions and a stolen computer printout. After the mistress turns up drowned, Alex unravels the computer text, dodging killers up to the final shoot-out in a Newport mansion. Assured writing and a sublimely sneaky imagination casts an actuary (arguably the mousiest occupation on the books) as the star of this nail-biter. The wintry Rhode Island setting is cut like a Cranston accent, while cold corporate games, masquerading as camaraderie, cast an icy menace throughout the proceedings. (Sept.)
When ProvLife, a successful life insurance company, expands into health care coverage, Alex Tynan, a young financial analyst employed by the company, becomes suspicious.
First of all, the statistics of the policyholders seem contrived and unrealistic. Alex also notices several of her colleagues suddenly make enormous amounts of money, while she must care for her aging mother and support herself on an entry-level salary. Then a company executive is found dead, after behaving bizarrely for weeks. When Alex is linked romantically to the dead man, she realizes that she has been set up in some kind of sinister game being played behind the closed doors of ProvLife.
With violence exploding all around her and someone shadowing her every move, Alex plunges into no-man's-land where she can trust no one and nothing - not even the astounding facts that are staring her right in the face.
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First of all, the statistics of the policyholders seem contrived and unrealistic. Alex also notices several of her colleagues suddenly make enormous amounts of money, while she must care for her aging mother and support herself on an entry-level salary. Then a company executive is found dead, after behaving bizarrely for weeks. When Alex is linked romantically to the dead man, she realizes that she has been set up in some kind of sinister game being played behind the closed doors of ProvLife.
With violence exploding all around her and someone shadowing her every move, Alex plunges into no-man's-land where she can trust no one and nothing - not even the astounding facts that are staring her right in the face.
The Policy
When ProvLife, a successful life insurance company, expands into health care coverage, Alex Tynan, a young financial analyst employed by the company, becomes suspicious.
First of all, the statistics of the policyholders seem contrived and unrealistic. Alex also notices several of her colleagues suddenly make enormous amounts of money, while she must care for her aging mother and support herself on an entry-level salary. Then a company executive is found dead, after behaving bizarrely for weeks. When Alex is linked romantically to the dead man, she realizes that she has been set up in some kind of sinister game being played behind the closed doors of ProvLife.
With violence exploding all around her and someone shadowing her every move, Alex plunges into no-man's-land where she can trust no one and nothing - not even the astounding facts that are staring her right in the face.
First of all, the statistics of the policyholders seem contrived and unrealistic. Alex also notices several of her colleagues suddenly make enormous amounts of money, while she must care for her aging mother and support herself on an entry-level salary. Then a company executive is found dead, after behaving bizarrely for weeks. When Alex is linked romantically to the dead man, she realizes that she has been set up in some kind of sinister game being played behind the closed doors of ProvLife.
With violence exploding all around her and someone shadowing her every move, Alex plunges into no-man's-land where she can trust no one and nothing - not even the astounding facts that are staring her right in the face.
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| BN ID: | 2940172270161 |
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| Publisher: | Brilliance Audio |
| Publication date: | 11/15/2019 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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