Rich Man's Blood

Boland scores big with this tale of complicated money maneuvering and family strife Kirkus Reviews. Richard Welles youngest member of a prominent Maryland investment banking family takes a sour pride in his knack for pressuring the firms clients to reveal all they know about upcoming business deals. When a Gulf Coast company that provides boat service to offshore drilling platforms tilts toward bankruptcy Welles discovers a hidden menace whose ultimate targets include his family and a colleague with whom he has fallen in love. Intriguing . . . [Boland] excels at rendering epiphanies and more impressively in the painstaking creation of a sympathetic character from a dense tangle of inner conflicts Publishers Weekly. First paperback edition.