Gene Lovell was a broker for John C. Legg (now Legg Mason) in the late fifties when that firm, an industry expert in insurance stocks, led a successful fight to seize control of Ne...view moreGene Lovell was a broker for John C. Legg (now Legg Mason) in the late fifties when that firm, an industry expert in insurance stocks, led a successful fight to seize control of New Amsterdam Casualty Insurance Co., giving him insight into what a ?takeover? is all about.
A well-known portrait painter and successful author of six other novels, Lovell lives quietly on the Eastern Shore with Jacquelyn Amos, his wife of fifty-three years, fighting boredom and cancer.view less