![]() ![]() In a fit of anger, he agrees to his brother Charlie’s plan to steal $3 million from an inactive account about to be turned over to the government. ![]() ![]() And that’s what’s truly scary." The Millionaires centers on Oliver, a rising young associate at a swank private bank in New York, who discovers that his boss is sabotaging his plans to get into a top MBA school. "I thought it was going to be hard, masterful, evil villain thinking, and it’s not. ![]() "It is so pathetically easy to change your identity in this country that it’s not funny," he says. Crafting a story of two brothers on the run for stealing way more than they intended, Meltzer dove into subjects now on everyone’s mind: how people can change their identity and just disappear, and how the super-rich keep their millions hidden. "Hollywood lies so much to us that when you take the time to get it right, it becomes amazing." He researched his latest thriller, The Millionaires, for more than two years, but the topics he explores couldn’t be timelier. They are the most fun," Meltzer says from his home in Washington, D.C. Four bestsellers later, he’s still reveling in a job that gives him inside access to the Supreme Court and the White House. When he was just out of law school, Brad Meltzer quickly joined the ranks of John Grisham and Scott Turow with his nail-biting debut thriller, The Tenth Justice. ![]()
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