Rich People

Mary Scofield is the little rich girl who turned her grandfather's chain of scandal sheets into a respectable journalistic empire and herself into the even richer queen of the newspaper publishing world. At forty, strikingly attractive, powerful,m and famous, with three marriages behind her, she is involved with a brilliant journalist, a movie actor, and a U.S. Senator. Mary Scofield is success - a perfect picture of graceful achievement - until her only child Carole mysteriously disappears and she is forced to confront all those forces in her life that have been so well contained beneath the highly polished surface.RICH PEOPLE, Morton Cooper's glistening and suspenseful novel about the world of the super rich, looks deeply into the tormented lives of the Scofield family and the reality behind a glamorous public image.As tension builds over Carole's whereabouts (Did the girl run away, as she has in the past, or has she been kidnapped by one of Mary's many enemies?), we learn in flashbacks about events in the lives of Mary's grandfather and father that have a bearing on the disappearance.Adam Scofield, the commanding and dynamic founder of the family newspaper chain...bound by a morality he doesn't respect to a woman he doesn't love.Harmon Scofield, Mary's father and Adam's adopted son...profligate, self-destructive, and ultimately, insane.And the husbands and lovers whom Mary sees as proof of her real failure as a her desperate fear of emotional involvement that has turned her daughter into a neurotic, vulnerable child who, in desperation, might turn to anybody or anything.The denouement will shock and appall anyone who has ever envied or vicariously identified with RICH PEOPLE.