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Christian Gillette
Christian Gillette is the protagonist in a series of financial thriller/suspense novels by American novelist Stephen W. Frey. Gillette is a 36 year-old superstar who works at Everest Capital, a private equity firm. When the founder suddenly dies, Christian is chosen to takeover his high-risk position.
Stephen Frey’s Christian Gillette series began in 2005 with the novel The Chairman. The series would run four novels, until The Successor in 2007.
The Chairman
A towering legend among New York private equity partnerships, Everest Capital is aptly named. When its founder meets an untimely death, thirty-six-year-old superstar Christian Gillette gets the top job. But with the power and prestige come risks. The day he narrowly escapes a fiery explosion that consumes his limo and takes two innocent lives, Gillette(…)
The Protege
After surviving attempts on his life and malicious competition in the corporate world, Christian Gillette has finally become Chairman of Everest Capital. Now on the brink of taking-over his ex-rival’s sinking firm and buying the NFL’s newest team-The Las Vegas Twenty-Ones-Gillette finds himself drawn to a young deal-maker named David Wright. However, when Gillette’s success(…)
The Power Broker
In this tense thriller, Christian Gillette, hero of The Protege, is approached by a shadowy group representing vast wealth (but vague motives). It’s a politically conservative alliance interested in a partnership with Gillette’s company, Everest Capital. Then he is contacted by a charismatic liberal politician named Jesse Wood, who is about to announce his candidacy(…)
The Successor
Make-or-break decisions involving millions of dollars are all in a day’s work for Christian Gillette, chairman of Everest Capital, New York’s most renowned private equity firm. He’s taken on the toughest, most powerful, and often most dangerous adversaries and prevailed – all the while honing his skill for being cool under fire, literally. But now(…)