The Deal: A Novel

When a zero is accidentally dropped from a mortgage document, partners in the presiding law firm discover they are personally liable to make up the multimillion-dollar shortfall, in a legal thriller about cutthroat competition and murder. A first novel. Simultaneous.

boardroom, lawyers and bankers gather to close a $840 million leveraged buyout. In the heat of the crowded agenda, no one notices that a zero has been dropped from the mortgage document. The papers are signed, the deal closes--and the fuse of a timebomb is lit. As the partners in the presiding law firm soon learn, each of them is personally liable to their client to make up the multimillion dollar shortfall. Simultaneous hardcover release from Random House. 2 cassettes.