Wordly Goods Author:Michael Korda This is a novel about a family, a fortune and a crime. At it's center is the love affair between a ruthless tycoon who cannot escape from his past and a beautiful woman whose own past is linked to his. Their lives are caught up in the struggle for wealth and power that has obsessed each generation of a great Central European banking family-eve... more »n those who under different names have fled to America and cut their ties to the past.« less