Kate Mcguinness

Terminal Ambition: a Maggie Mahoney Novel Kate Mcguinness

In this addictive tale, an avalanche upends the meteoric career of Maggie Mahoney, a high-flying female partner in a prestigious Wall Street law firm. Brilliant and beautiful, she became the trophy wife of its managing attorney. After a torrent of snow kills both her husband and her principal client, Maggie is reduced to being just another powerless female partner at the venerable Sweeny, Owens & Boyle.
 
Obsessed with his dream of becoming the next Attorney General, firm chairman Andy Anderson creates a tangled web of deceit in a desperate gamble to conceal the firm's secrets and the shocking skeleton buried deep in his own closet. Maggie suspects he has a hidden agenda when he appoints Jack Slattery, a former prosecutor unqualified to be managing attorney, to replace her husband. Jack must have something poisonous on Andy, but what is it?
 
Forced to become a sleuth, Maggie stages a break-in to gather evidence. But she's not the only one inside the firm playing detective. Andy will stop at nothing to achieve his ambition and deploys his loyal lieutenant to recruit unknowing partners in breaking all the rules. Suspense builds with breakneck pacing. Rape ups the stakes as the cat and mouse game between Maggie and Andy plays out to its shocking finish.
 
Readers will be totally hooked by this gripping and unusual story that reveals the inner workings of a powerful law firm. McGuinness is a born storyteller who creates three dimensional, complex characters. Their pitch perfect dialogue and motivations ring true. Terminal Ambition holds a mirror up to the excesses and immorality of Wall Street in a manner reminiscent of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities.