title: DEALMAKER: A Billionaire's Blueprint for Success
author: Jerry Wallace
description: Jerry Wallaces energy and real estate expertise radiate from every page in Dealmaker. This is a great read. -- <i>Richard Massey, Investor</i><br /><br />No one has more down to earth wisdom about dealmaking than Jerry Wallace. -- <i>Robinson Callen, Chairman, H.I. Development Corporation</i><br /><br />Wallaces approach to real estate success is right on for todays and tomorrows marketplace. -- <i>Don Nations, Nations Realty</i>
zlib_text: THE BILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR
   
  JESSICA BIRD
   
    
     
    
  
  Chapter One
   
  “No, really, I heard he was coming tonight.”
   The young investment banker looked at his buddy, Freddie Wilcox. “O’Banyon? Are you crazy? He’s in
  the middle of the Condi-Foods merger.”
   “I asked his assistant.” Freddie tweaked his Hermès tie. “It’s on his calendar.”
   “He must never sleep.”
   “Gods don’t have to, Andrew.”
   “Well, then, where is he?”
   From their vantage point in a corner of the Waldorf-Astoria’s ballroom, they sifted through the crowd
  of Manhattan highfliers, looking for the man they called The Idol.
   Sean O’Banyon was their boss’s boss and, at thirty-six, one of Wall Street’s big dogs. He ran the
  mergers-and-acquisitions arm of Sterling Rochester, and was capable of leveraging billions of dollars at
  the drop of a hat or killing a mega deal because he didn’t like the numbers. Since arriving on the Street,
  he’d engineered one perfectly executed corporate acquisition after another. No one had his track recor