The Tainted Trust is, in addition to a moving and action packed thriller, a brilliant depiction of what perfectly normal people will do for love and money. โจโจNo one wept when Jim Servito died. He left an estate amounting to $325,000,000 when his wife, Karen killed him in Caracas. He had accumulated the fortune the old fashioned way: he stole it from the U.S. and Canadian Governments using a brilliant gasoline tax evasion scam. The money is hot, deposited in a Cayman Island bank, and it was cursed. It has a profound affect on everyone who touched it. It is managed by Alfred Schnieder, an aging and unscrupulous Caracas banker. โจโจMike King, the love of Karenโs life, and nearly ruined by the Fedsโ scorched earth efforts to recover Servitoโs fortune, convinces her to keep the money, instead of returning it to its rightful owners. With the assistance of Schnieder, they form The King Trust, a near fatal mistake. Desperate to recover the money, the Feds continue to spare no expense and effort to do so. Phillip, the only child of Karen and Jim Servito, assumes he is the natural heir to his fatherโs fortune. He has his own greedy plans for the money. Aging Alfred Schnieder relinquishes the trustโs management to Louis Visconti, a thirty-two year old financial engineer. Dubbed โThe Crown Prince of Wall Streetโ, and substantially more unscrupulous than Schnieder, Visconti takes The King Trust to bewildering heights, then โจfails, miserably. โจโจKerri Pyper, Mike Kingโs twenty-three year old estranged daughter, has not seen or communicated with her father since she was nine. She discovers the existence of The King Trust and is shocked to learn that her natural father is its Trustee. Visconti, assuming he is the smartest man in the room, embezzles the fortune and flees to Monaco. He made only two mistakes: he deceived Schnieder and fell in love with Kerri.