Never Enough
by Pocket Star

	Never Enough
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Book Description

At thirty-nine, Nancy Kissel had it all: glamour, gusto, garishly flaunted wealth, and the royal lifestyle of the expatriate wife. Not to mention three young children and what a friend described as "the best marriage in the universe."<P>That marriage -- to Merrill Lynch and former Goldman Sachs investment banker Robert Kissel -- ended abruptly one November night in 2003 in the bedroom of their luxury apartment high above Hong Kong's glittering Victoria Harbour.<P>Why?<P>Hong Kong prosecutors, who charged Nancy with murder, said she wanted to inherit Rob's millions and start a new life with a blue-collar lover who lived in a New Hampshire trailer park.<P>She said she'd killed in self-defense while fighting for her life against an abusive, cocaine-addicted husband who had forced her for years to submit to his brutal sexual demands.<P>Her 2005 trial, lasting for months and rich in lurid detail, captivated Hong Kong's expatriate community and attracted attention worldwide. Less than a year after the jury of seven Chinese citizens returned its unexpected verdict, Rob's brother, Andrew, a Connecticut real estate tycoon facing prison for fraud and embezzlement, was also found dead: stabbed in the back in the basement of his multimillion-dollar Greenwich mansion by person or persons unknown.<P>Never Enough is the harrowing true story of these two brothers, Robert and Andrew Kissel, who grew up wanting to own the world but instead wound up murdered half a world apart; and of Nancy Kissel, a riddle wrapped inside an enigma, a modern American woman for whom having it all might not have been enough.<P>In this singularly compelling narrative, Joe McGinniss -- past master at exposing the dark heart of the American family in the bestsellers <I>Fatal Vision, Blind Faith</i>, and <I>Cruel Doubt</i> -- explores his darkest and most disturbing subject yet: a smart and beautiful family so corroded by greed that it destroys itself from within.<P>Here is a family saga almost biblical in its tragic proportion but dazzlingly modern in flavor -- and utterly unstoppable in its pulsating narrative drive. From the shimmering skyscrapers and greed-drenched bustle of Hong Kong to the moneyed hush and hauteur of backcountry Greenwich, McGinniss lures readers irresistibly forward, as this twisted tale of ambition gone mad and love gone bad rushes to its terrible, inexorable conclusion.

Reader Reviews

I read the other book regarding the Kissel tragedy which befelt Robert and Andrew Kissel. They were the sons of Bill Kissel, founder and owner of Synfax Company. This book at first regarding the Kissels really shocked me because it's so much more detailed the previous book on the case. One of the reasons that I held off reading it was because I knew the case from television and the other book. When I picked up this book, I couldn't stop myself from reading it. It begins with Nancy telephoning her father. The author has done his homework in helping the reader understand Nancy's personality and psychology as well as the Kissel family clan whose hostilities and tensions which not only include sibling rivalry but the family's obsession on making money and ruining the family in order to get it. The author shows the patriarch Bill Kissel as the lone male survivor who has to bury his own sons after they are both murdered in separate instances. Nancy who was married to Rob, the ideal son who went to college and became a brilliant banker in Hong Kong, ended up in a rug in the basement of the condo complex where he stayed with his wife and children and servants. Sadly, Rob realized money didn't always take care of things until it was too late. Nancy had drugged and murdered him to get together with a cable guy in Vermont. She is now in a Hong Kong Prison for life. Then brother Andrew has made his millions in the old fashioned way by cheating, stealing, deceiving, and robbing people blind until he is caught. His death has been ruled a homicide but the question of who murdered him is still unclear. Still this book is gripping with McGinnis' writing to help explain Nancy possible behavior behind killing her husband. Andrew's case is still pending. But Nancy's cable guy is still living in a trailer with his new wife and has requested that the prison no longer send her letters to him a year after her conviction. I don't know why nobody noticed Nancy's behavior before like her snapping back at Aids-stricken friend, Alison Gertz, on her wedding day as she tried to educate her or when Nancy and her mother, Jean, fought to the near death. Nancy cuts people off and you never hear from her again. Still, I recommend this book as one of the best true crime books out there today.