The Choice Of Eddie Franks

Description for THE CHOICE OF EDDIE FRANKS by Brian Freemantle: Smart, savvy hotel tycoon Eddie Franks wakes up one day to find himself the pawn in a amultimillion-dollar, deadly setup. The FBI accuses him of using his brand-new Caribbean hotel chain to launder millions of dollars of illegal money. Money that the private financiers who backed Eddie have channeled into the hotel casinos through cooperative lines of credit with a Nevada casino. And his backers are members of organized crime. The proof is irrefutable. Unless Eddie is far stupider than his business success indicates, he's in it deep. And the FBI want him. Very badly. The thing is, Eddie is innocent, appallingly, stupidly innocent. And the only man who can vouch for that has just been murdered: Nicky Scargo, Eddie's brother-in-law. Eddie had started out with very little, and had become very successful; but he had never gotten over the need to outdo Nicky, his childhood rival. Sure, Eddie'd built hims