Hold the Square

Elias Karr is handed a list of the country's largest heirless fortunes and a quiet instruction: when these lonely billionaires die, make sure the money flows the safe way, into decorous foundations, never into the hands of someone who might use it as a weapon. He is hunting the single exception, the holder who wakes one grey morning and decides to burn it all down. When August Vane is told he has months to live, Henry Goodstone's thriller sets the professional against the one man who can no longer be bought, threatened or waited out. Sharpened past the plausible and told with cold precision, it is a novel about money, power and the accounts that finally come due.