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That marriage -- to Merrill Lynch and former Goldman Sachs investment banker Robert Kissel -- ended abruptly one November night in 2003 in the bedroom of their luxury apartment high above Hong Kong's glittering Victoria Harbour.
Why?
Hong Kong prosecutors, who charged Nancy with murder, said she wanted to inherit Rob's millions and start a new life with a blue-collar lover who lived in a New Hampshire trailer park.
She said she'd killed in self-defense while fighting for her life against an abusive, cocaine-addicted husband who had forced her for years to submit to his brutal sexual demands.
Her 2005 trial, lasting for months and rich in lurid detail, captivated Hong Kong's expatriate community and attracted attention worldwide. Less than a year after the jury of seven Chinese citizens returned its unexpected verdict, Rob's brother, Andrew, a Connecticut real estate tycoon facing prison for fraud and embezzlement, was also found dead: stabbed in the back in the basement of his multimillion-dollar Greenwich mansion by person or persons unknown.
Never Enough is the harrowing true story of these two brothers, Robert and Andrew Kissel, who grew up wanting to own the world but instead wound up murdered half a world apart; and of Nancy Kissel, a riddle wrapped inside an enigma, a modern American woman for whom having it all might not have been enough.
In this singularly compelling narrative, Joe McGinniss -- past master at exposing the dark heart of the American family in the bestsellers Fatal Vision, Blind Faith, and Cruel Doubt -- explores his darkest and most disturbing subject yet: a smart and beautiful family so corroded by greed that it destroys itself from within.
Here is a family saga almost biblical in its tragic proportion but dazzlingly modern in flavor -- and utterly unstoppable in its pulsating narrative drive. From the shimmering skyscrapers and greed-drenched bustle of Hong Kong to the moneyed hush and hauteur of backcountry Greenwich, McGinniss lures readers irresistibly forward, as this twisted tale of ambition gone mad and love gone bad rushes to its terrible, inexorable conclusion.
作者简介 Joe Mcginniss is the author of ten previous books, including The Selling of the President, Going to Extremes, Fatal Vision, Blind Faith, Cruel Doubt, and The Miracle of Castel di Sangro. He has five children and seven grandchildren. He lives in Massachusetts with the writer and editor Nancy Doherty.
编辑推荐 "Readers have a real treat waiting for them in Joe McGinniss's latest book."
-Washington Post Book World
"It's riveting and compulsively readable...McGinniss patiently unravels the case with plenty of fresh reporting..."
-Entertainment Weekly
"McGinniss brilliantly deconstructs the highly dysfunctional Kissels...you can't argue with his ability to tell a good story. Readers of Never Enough get front-row seats to someone else's family horror fest."
-USA Today
"This is a mesmerizing tale, with more twists and turns than most steamy crime novels. The irony of two wasted lives makes this cautionary tale perfect reading for a chilly autumn evening."
-Tucson Citizen
"McGinniss...makes it absorbingly believable."
-New York Daily News
"In McGinniss's compelling account, the Kissel family -- full of potential but riven by endless battles among the brothers and their sister and father -- represent the American tragedy in which ambition and the pursuit of wealth turn deadly."
-Publishers Weekly
文摘 PROLOGUE
THREE DAYS IN NOVEMBER 2003
It was 8:00 P.M. Monday in Hong Kong, 6:00 A.M. Monday in Chicago when Nancy Kissel called her father, Ira Keeshin. She was crying.
"Rob and I had a huge fight last night," she said. "I'm pretty badly beaten up. I'm sure he broke some of my ribs. And I'm afraid. I'm afraid he's going to come back and hurt me more."
"Wait. He hit you?"
"He was drunk. It was horrible..." She started crying so hard she couldn't talk.
"Where is he now?"
"I...I don't know. He left. He could be anywhere."
"How are you? Have you been to a doctor?"
"I'm going in the morning. My ribs are killing me. I'm all beat up."
"And you don't know where Rob is?"
"He could be anywhere. I'm scared he'll come back."
"How are the kids?"
"They're fine. They don't know anything."
"Are Connie and Min there?"
"Yes, they're here."
"Make sure they stay with you. And keep the door locked. Double-bolt it. This is awful. What the hell happened?"
Instead of answering, Nancy broke down in tears again.
"Never mind. Listen, I'll get down there as fast as I can. If he comes back, call the police. Stay safe. That's the most important thing. Don't go out anywhere he might be able to grab you. Keep Connie and Min with you. Call some friends to come over. I don't want you alone until we know where he is."
She was sobbing.
"Maybe he just lost it for a minute Maybe he's ashamed, that's why he left."
"No. This wasn't the first time."
"What -- "
"Just get here, please. I don't know what to do."
Ira was sixty years old, five seven, physically active, physically fit. He thought fast. He talked fast. He was impulsive. He was not a long-term planner. He had a quick sense of humor. He had a temper. He had a heart. He didn't have much contact with his first ex-wife, Nancy's mother, but he'd stayed on good terms with his second, even after he'd married for a third time.
He was the number two man at a
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