Download or read book The Man who Owned New York written by John Jay Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At thirty-five, Robert Fox, junior partner in the prestigious Wall Street firm Castle and Lovett, has leveled off in his profession, and the place he had worked so obsessively to make for himself suddenly seems far from perfect. He is in love with a beautiful woman who will not marry him, the young associates in the firm are nipping at his heels, and to top it off, more than three million dollars is missing from the estate of one of his most important clients. Fox's search for the missing Sifford millions -- and for his own sanity and happiness -- leads him into a sometimes dangerous exploration of the many factions that lay claim to the immense city where he works. Who really owns New York? The old families, with their town houses, country estates, and great art collections? The new brash entrepreneurs who are "into" real estate development, interior design, and "macho banking"? Or is it the strange sinister characters who hide in the out-of-the-way, darkly lit crevices of the city? The real answers to Fox's questions are as surprising to him as they will be to the many readers of this witty, suspenseful, and telling novel.