The Financier

Frank Cowperwood a fiercely ambitious businessman emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth women and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals betrays and is in turn betrayed his rise and fall come to represent the American success story stripped down to brutal realities-a struggle for spoils without conscience or pity. Dreisers 1912 classic remains an unsparing social critique as well as a devastating character study of one of the most unforgettable American businessmen in twentieth-century literature.