Taking Stock

About this book

This exciting romantic and funny story traces the travails of a naive English schoolteacher Jeremy Lloyd- Davies who inherits shares and the Presidency of a New York stock broker. Follow his fight against the increasingly vicious attempts to sabotage him by the Vice President of the company, who with his wife the old presidents daughter hold a large block of voting shares. The Presidency he inherits is for one year only it is conditional and will be made permanent if Jeremy meets certain criteria. Jeremy fires his secretary who was transferred to him by the VP purely to seduce him He begins to find success the VP becomes more desperate, finally he hires a Hit Man. .In an exciting finally every thing depends upon the vote by the Board on Jeremys performance. If he wins approval he becomes permanent President and retains his shares if he loses he walks away with just memories.