The Legacy

by Stephen W. Frey

Book Overview

A hard-working financier on Wall Street is informed that his estranged father has died and left him the key to a safe deposit box. What he finds inside is a videotape of the JFK assassination--filmed from the other side of Dealey Plaza. Before he can get over the initial shock of his discovery, the financier finds his life in danger from a conspiracy dating back over 30 years and a secret that was never meant to be told.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451190157
• ISBN13: 9780451190154
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Onyx Books
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

A Good Book!

With the writing of this book Stephen Frey mamaged to write an interesting book about the Kennedy assassination.The central character in this book Cole Egan is a bond trader who is on the brink of financial ruin.He has a mortage that is too big for him to pay and he owes the Mafia a small fortune in gambling debts.His father Jim Egan leaves him a surprise inheritance.It is a key to a safe deposit box.Inside the safe deposit box is a videotape of the Kennedy assassinationThis tape proves that a second gunman was involcved in the assassination. Suddenly everyone is after the tape and Cole's life at the same time.The D.I.A.(Defense Intelligence Agency) has a plan called Operation Snowfall that is reenacted to prevent the tape from being made public.This group is headed by William Seward and Commander MaGee.He also makes the Acquaintence of Bennett Smith who was his father's friend.He also runs into Victoria Brown who wants to get the tape for NBC news.Another group who wants the tape to dissapear is the Mafia in the person of Anthony Bianco,the Chairman.Cole has to figure out who he can really trust because nothing is really what it appears to be. This is a good book.

Frey At His Best

This book has received quite mixed reviews. However,to my taste, I considered it to be quite compelling. I really hated to put it down. Basically it's a story about a Bond trader who seems headed towards ruin. His father, who he really didn't know and was a covert DIA agent left him a video tape of the Kennedy assassination which proved there had been a conspiracy. The current President, in cahoots with the Mafia boss, were working together to keep the truth hidden. Tremendous drama, thrills and excitement along the way.

My first read and favorite

The first novel of Frey's that I picked up, and couldn't put down until I finished it. I found myself drawn through page after page, chapter after chapter, by Frey's excellent style that just sucked me into the book and wouldn't let go. I found the plot interesting and the twists surprising. A great action read.

Excellent, fast past, suspense, edge of your seat thriller!

A very interesting take on the Kennedy assassination. Not a far fetched theory. Fast paced, lots of suspence. Just when you think you know what is happening, and who are good and bad, Frey changes it up!!! Awesome story, would make a great movie! Definitely worth a read!

A new twist from Frey, but same Grisham-esque adventure

The Legacy, by Stephen Frey, starts like all Frey books. A young, hot-shot investment broker, Cole Egan, is having problems with keeping his portfolio up to par. A mysterious message from his ever-elusive (and now dead) father instructs him to a safe-deposit box where he finds a video of the Kennedy assasination, from the other side of Dealey Plaza. Immediately, people want the video. Everyone, from media to mafia, is after Cole, and he must try to protect himself and his girlfriend, while the people he has to trust can't be trusted. Cole, through the help of his father's best friend, finds out about his father's work with a covert government agency, and the government operation to cover up conspiracies concerning the assasination. When he turns against Cole, Cole turns to his father's mistress, an ABC producer, for help. Together, they find another copy of the tape, and run from both legal and illegal pursuers. By the end, like all Frey books, Cole Egan is rich and everybody else gets screwed. The combination of adventure, intrigue, and suspense kept this 15 year old reader up until 4:00 in the morning reading (a total of 5 hours of reading time). While The Legacy is one of Frey's shortest books, and definitely the most unusual one, it is absolutely worth reading, whether you want a nice rainy-day read, or an "I can't fall asleep after coming home at 1:30 AM, so I'll start reading" book. Pick it up today!