Charlie and Oliver Caruso, brothers, work at Greene and Greene -- a private bank so exclusive there's a $2 million minimum to be a client. When they discover $3 million sitting in an abandoned account that can't be traced, the brothers take it. Soon a friend is dead -- and the Secret Service is closing in.
Publishers Weekly This giddy fourth thriller by Meltzer ( The First Counsel ) mixes up banking, cyber-theft and Disney World in a fast-paced, fresh-scrubbed tale of financial adventure. Oliver Caruso is sweating out some scut work for Henry Lapidus, bigwig at Greene & Greene, a private bank so exclusive clients require $2 million just to open an account. When Oliver and his younger brother, Charlie, find proof that Lapidus has been sabotaging Oliver's career plans, the brothers conspire to rip off the lingering balance from a deceased client's account. Silly boys! Not only is the local security goon Shep (formerly Secret Service) already chiseling in on their scam, the real Secret Service thugs are on the case almost immediately. The $3 million the Carusos swiped has somehow cybernetically blossomed overnight to over $300 million. Desperate to clear their names, the boys escape to Florida, following the money to the daughter of the deceased millionaire, a former tech wizard for Disney with a secret invention everyone in this book would happily kill for. The ins and outs of how to steal money that isn't really there makes for an interesting premise if you don't think about it too much, but two flaws detract from the action. First, the narrative POV jumps too often from one character to the next and from present tense to past, making for a choppy read. Second, the novel's juvenile flavor from the PI who bluffs her way into a building by claiming to be searching for her mother's favorite sock to the hapless schoolboy dialogue ("You touched her cookies, didn't you?") loudly proclaims its Hardy Boys heritage. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Brad Meltzer, Tony Goldwyn

New York: Grand Central Publishing

Hachette Book Group

Springboard Press

Warner Books ed., New York, New York State, March 2003

United States, United States of America

Warner Books ed., New York, 2007

First Edition, PS, 2002

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Two brothers. Three secret service agents. And millions for the taking. Charlie and Oliver Caruso are brothers who work at Greene and Greene, a private bank so exclusive there's a $2 million minimum to be a client. But when the door of success slams in their faces, the brothers are presented with an offer they can't refuse: $3 million in an abandoned account that can't be traced. It's the perfect victimless crime. Charlie and Oliver opt to take the money, but get much more than they bargained for. Now, with a lot of extra zeroes in their pockets and a friend found dead, the Secret Service and a female private investigator are closing in. Whose money did they take? How will they stay alive? And why is the Secret Service trying to kill them? Both Charlie and Oliver quickly realize it's not easy being The Millionaires.

Brothers Charlie and Oliver Caruso work at the exclusive bank Greene and Greene but when the brothers find out that a colleague has been sabotaging Oliver's career plans they conspire to steel $3 million from a deceased client's account. With the Secret Service closing in and a friend found dead the brothers must escape to Florida to try and clear their names.

Charlie and Oliver, brothers and bankers at a very exclusive bank, accept an offer of three million dollars in an apparently abandoned account when they are fired from their jobs but find they are in over their heads when a friend ends up dead and the bank, the Secret Service, and a private investigator begin hounding them

Charlie and Oliver Causo, brothers who both work for a private bank, steal $3 million from an abandoned bank account. Now the bank, the Secret Service, and a female private investigator are all out to get them in a chase that soon turns deadly.

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