Add Robert Miller to the pantheon of smug rich guys Richard Gere has long excelled at playing. There he is glibly explaining the financial crisis on a TV talk show, or having backseat meetings in limos, or doing a quick drop-in on his mistress’s gallery show, which he’s financed. But mostly he’s bobbing and weaving to complete the deal that will save him from the deal that even he who weathered the housing bubble could not resist, a no-risk proposition that went wrong anyway. Only selling the company can save him. None of this has much to do with arbitrage, which relates to exploiting short-term price differentials, but in this case the idea is to conjure an image of sophisticated financial chicanery.
This, the feature debut of Nicholas Jarecki, is an exploration of power and its limits in the guise of mainstream suspense at its best. One thing even the wealthy and powerful cannot avoid is the need for sleep, and it is this that causes the accident that threatens the deal, his family life, and his freedom.
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viewed 9/27/12 7:00 pm at Ritz Bourse and reviewed 9/27/12
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