Deal Master

March 7, 2016
At the outset of Gittlin’s racy, fast-paced third Jonah Gray novel (after 2014’s The Deal: About Face), power broker Jonah is enjoying his fame as the head of one of the hottest boutique real estate firms in Manhattan. But all is not well. Perry York, his business partner and the love of his life, is slipping into a world of alcohol and pills, and Jonah is suffering unbearable guilt for the trauma he put Perry through while they were on the run in Europe in the previous book. To add to their woes, a security guard is found dead (possibly murdered) in one of their buildings, and a security breach threatens to cost them a major client. Worst of all, European commercial real estate mogul Cobus de Bont, “one of the most corrupt, wanted men on the planet” to whom Jonah owes a lot, demands that Jonah and Perry acquire some properties for him. The plot takes some unexpected turns before reaching the satisfying if open-ended conclusion. Agent: Susan Gleason, Susan Gleason Literary Agency.

March 15, 2016
Jonah Gray, the New York real-estate dealer who spent many years living abroad under an assumed identity (The Deal, 2008), is back in NYC. He's putting together some very big, very expensive deals, but when the body of a murdered man is found in one of his buildings, Jonah suspects it's not a coincidence. And when an old friend shows up unexpectedly, asking Jonah to broker some real-estate transactions, Jonah is convinced that he hasn't left his past behind him, after all. Although the writing is less sure-handed than in the previous novels in the series, the story is well constructed and suspenseful. Fans of financial thrillers should enjoy this one.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)