and marries a beautiful socialite who provides just the right touch of social grace he has previously not had time for. Kane, his corporate strategy and clipped way of speech polished to a fine edge at Harvard, makes his first million in the stock market, becomes a director of his father hank.

Abel possesses all of Kane's attributes except.opportunity.Ĭonsumed by ambition -Kane to surpass the financial feats of his father, Abel to make up for an early life of deprivation -each pursues his own road to success. Abel is dis- covered newborn in a Polish forest, adopted by a trapper's family, and is soon taken in by the wealthy Baron Rosnovski. Kane-bright, worldly, and industrious-is a descendant of the Lowells and Cabots, a Boston Brahmin, a member of an old and respected banking family. whose relentless ambition and driving passions are overshadowed only by their obsession with destroying each other.Īlready a best seller in England (where it has been hailed as 'the novel of the decade'), Kane & Abel spans more than sixty tumultuous years-from to the late - and revolves around William Lowell Kane, a millionaire financier, and Abel Rosnovski (born Wladek Koskiewicz), a Polish immigrant who rises to become the head of a vast hotel empire. At its center are two men, from widely different backgrounds. Combining the inside boardroom politics of The Moneychangers with the scope and emotional force of the Immigrants, Kane & Abel is a compelling tale of power, jealousy, and terrible revenge.

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