The Fortune

By Michael Korda

Book Overview

Twenty-four-year-old Alexa Walden secretly married 64-year-old millionaire Arthur Bannerman. And after his death, Alexa finds herself tainted with scandal and pitted against the powerful and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671601008
• ISBN13: 9780671601003
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Summit Books
• Length: 481 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

More Fun, Because Less Real

Korda's "Queenie" and "Curtain" were interesting, though too somber and ultimately tiresome, because each was based (until the last third) rather too closely on real, and always unhappy, actors and producers. "The Fortune" is meant to remind you of Nelson Rockefeller's family, but Korda veers off so quickly into a polished TV-movie romance plot -- young, poor, brave farm girl loves old, super-rich, lonely city guy, and both have dark family secrets -- that it's laughs and sighs all the way.My mind-movie casting was Catherine Zeta-Jones and Mitch Ryan. The plum role is, as usual in this genre, the Matriarch -- maybe Tippi Hedren.In any case, a fine heroine and a good read.

An excellent book revealing the unimaginable

Wow! Korda has outdone himself once again with fiction. This novels shows us how presumptuous one can be with more than half a billion dollars-- meaning bribing the police force to discard files and erase evidence of murder files. As a young woman, Korda exemplifies the will power of a young woman like myself who must over come the pressures of fame, power, and most of all, her distasteful in-laws.