“What the Mirror Doesn’t See,” a new novel by Tim Holland, ’62, was released in February 2018. The book is set in 1993: The banking world is in turmoil, and in New Jersey there is outright panic.
The big New York banks and emerging regionals are gobbling up everything in the state. The Fed has opened the floodgates, and traditional banking ethics are disappearing.
Banker Jim Fairmont thinks his coworker is doing something illegal. At a used book sale, Fairmont finds a blank, signed invoice belonging to an auto parts supplier. The document is contained in a box of books donated by Larry McBride, a new-breed, brash, 33-year-old former New York banker. McBride had been hired by First State Bank to give it credibility in its defensive entry into international banking. Alerted by McBride’s strange behavior at the book sale as he searched for something, Jim begins to investigate McBride’s relationships with some of First State’s customers. What he uncovers is much bigger than he ever imagined, involving clearly unethical conduct and questionable international asset movements.
With a background in international banking, Holland’s financial articles have appeared in banking and financial trade magazines. Book reviews and literary criticism have appeared in publications of The Recorder Publishing Co., New Jersey; The Brontë Society, Haworth, England; and political commentary and general interest in a variety of newspapers and other publications around the country. He is also the author of the Sidney Lake Mystery Series.
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