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He's going to tell you everything.
How he walked into a room full of billionaires' children and saw a catalog of leverage.
How he made a CEO's daughter feel brilliant so her father would open the vault.
How he turned dinner parties into crime scenes and philanthropy into a mask.
How he built a machine that ran on complicity - and made the most powerful people in the world too compromised to stop it.
He's going to tell you all of it. Calmly. Clearly. With the patience of a man who has been running the math on human weakness for forty years and has never once been wrong.
And the worst part?
You're going to understand him.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Spider's Web is a first-person psychological thriller told entirely from the perspective of the predator. Vincent Aldric is brilliant, charming, and monstrous - and he narrates his own rise from nobody to the most protected private citizen in America with the warmth of a man explaining his life's work to an audience he respects.
He is not sorry. He is thorough.
For readers who love:
- Narrators who terrify you because they make too much sense (American Psycho, You, Lolita)
- The machinery of institutional corruption (House of Cards, Succession)
- Thrillers that don't just tell you a story - they implicate you in one
***This novel contains a narrator who will make you uncomfortable - not because he's evil, but because he's persuasive. Reader discretion is advised.
Jordan Wright
Lawyer and magazine publisher Jordan M. Wright began collecting memorabilia at
the age of 10. In his life, he amassed a collection of more than a million objects. His
goal was to create a permanent exhibit called the Museum of Democracy. When the
original core of this book was published in 2008, it became the first public view of
this collection. He suddenly passed away at age 50 and left his collection and his
dreams of a museum to his family. He would be happy to know that the Museum of
Democracy is now a reality at Long Island University in New York. In addition to
the permanent exhibit, there is also a touring display of the collection, which makes
guest appearances in museums and universities across the United States. Although he
is not here to witness it, these exhibits and this new updated version of his book are here to
keep Wright's dream and his collection alive.
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