Greed centres around a country policeman, Kurt Janisch and the various women with whom he's having affairs with. The story as such is simple and the main details are disclosed early in the novel. Kurt Janisch has a permanent erection and he targets women with property with the aim of relieving them of their houses. He's not opposed to having sex with the women's daughters as well if the situation arises. Kurt is married and has a grown-up son, Ernst, who is also married. Ernst lives in his wife's elderly mother's house where they're waiting for her to die so they can inherit the property. Kurt's and Ernst's approach is described in the following quotes: A bit more suspense comes from the fact that Gerti could, if she wanted to, put two and two together, as she knows (all too well) of Janisch's relationship with Gabi, and that he drove off with her.

He is in debt; his exact financial situation and the reasons for it are unclear, but it seems he is -- perhaps because of his real estate speculation -- overextended and in financial difficulties; by the end, he is possibly heading for bankruptcy -- appropriately enough, for a character whose moral bankruptcy is clear from the start. Antonio is one of those characters you want to hate but, something draws you to a man like him and wanting you to uncover his secrets and even more, wondering if you are up to the challenge of trying to pierce that armor he keeps around him. The man is a Villain in every sense, a bully, dark, dangerous, powerful, sexy, a some may think him a demon but, sporadically, we get glimpses that he might have a heart after all. Greed is written with a uniquely sneering tone, and a tireless fury for civilisation. Jelinek has seized the conventional novel by its dirty shoelaces, turned it upside down, continuously shaking and pulling, so that the reader feels nausea settling in. She can be explicit and extremely hostile when in comes to the sex included, and writes with a full-on sordidness for us humans. But there is also a chirpiness throughout the novel, where maybe things are not suppose to be taken that seriously. Some have even called her a comic writer, I wouldn't go as far as that here. Daniela is far from a pampered princess, she has a heart of gold and is passionate and shows kindness to some those some would think are beneath her. She is willing to give her life to protect those she calls her family. She was a beautiful soul and feisty to boot. Daniela faults hum, she is drawn to a dark and dangerous man who holds her captive. A small bit of suspense arises from Janisch's concern about evidence he may have left behind at the scene and his trying to retrieve it.on reality TV shows:] “…where people pour out their being and then don’t want to wipe it up afterwards.” The hero (Antonio) was super soft and forgiving and showed zero signs of ever turning into a toxic person, therefore, he failed to appeal to my senses. How low can these women go? Imagine an older woman letting the policeman bring an underage girl into her home for the policeman to have sex with while she is there. That’s the girl who was killed and whose body was found in the lake. Do we have a suspect here? By the way, some blurbs describe this as a “thriller” – it’s not. The killing of the young girl is peripheral to the main story. And, while we follow some of the police procedures in their investigation, it’s definitely not a police procedural or a detective story. There is always this dialectic when you start a meaningful book; between the book, its contents and concepts and the author and their life/lives. And you cannot get away from this with Jelinek precisely because she IS controversial. Much is made of this in German-speaking Europe. But outside of that she appears to be little known or appraised even by the chattering classes that might be considered the clientele for her books. And this is even the case after being awarded the Nobel Laureate for Literature in 2004. A cursory look at her Wiki entry makes you begin to throw up the hands in a ‘Whoaa!’ moment. Dominant pushy mother (shades of The Piano Teacher there), severe anxiety overcome through writing, political involvement and awareness, committed feminist. She notes: "The country policeman is partial to the darkness of night" ("Der Gendarm hat eine Vorliebe für Nachtdunkelheit"), and he remains a shadowy figure throughout.

She's strong, defiant and very much capable of taking care of herself and those she treasures. But she can't protect her heart from Antonio's larger than life personality that looms large over her existence. Greed is the first installment in the Sinful Empire trilogy—a sizzling billionaire mafia romance with an arranged marriage signed in blood whose victim is a runaway mafia princess who lost everything. Step over steamy reads of 2021, there's a new and hotter man in down and his name is Antonio. And he's about to add fuel to your fires! Los enunciados de la "novela amena" parecen escupidos de una máquina de acuñar frases hechas. Jelinek no pretende narrar, ordena sus juegos verbales alrededor de un argumento trivial, dejándose llevar por el valor asociativo de las palabras. No obstante, entre retruécano y alfilerazo cuaja una especie de cuento de hadas al revés. (...) Comentarios jocosos como éste, no sólo eximen a la autora de cualquier responsabilidad con sus enunciados, sino que privan al lector de todo margen de pensamiento propio. Tarde o temprano, la lectura asistida, inevitablemente, deriva en aburrimiento." - Cecilia Dreymüller, El País What follows is a captivating tale of love, loss, and redemption. Dominic, faced with the reality of Alessandra’s departure, awakens to the profound emptiness left in her absence. As he confronts the consequences of his obsession with success, he discovers that there might be more to life than riches and glory, but the question remains: Is it too late to salvage what he once held dear?Greed by Eva Charles was explosive and sinful with extremes of emotion and passion. It just consumed me whole. A must read for every dark romance lover. Antonio Huntsman is the clear winner cause he's the chosen one by Daniela D'Sousa's father on his deathbed. Greed is heavy with hints of other books. But Jelinek is relentless. Hers is a world where, time and again, authority is allowed, too easily, to seduce; a society that needs its men to be aggressors and its women their willing dupes, and where human relationships are merely transactions in an economy built on exploitation and greed. There is no escape. (...) Martin Chalmers has made a brave, and on the whole effective, job of rendering into English a narrative that is characterized by stylistic unpredictability and manic shifts of register." - Ian Brunskill, Times Literary Supplement There isn’t a whole lot about the journey that I can share with you right now because if I did, why would you bother reading the book lol But I can tell you that this promises to be exciting and thrilling. I can tell you that not only do Daniela & Antonio have chemistry, but the storyline has spark as well. It’s a seductive story that will grab you from the beginning, sexy and addictive. You do not want to miss out on this ride! #trust There's little depth or history to the characters, save some at the end, as Janisch is left behind and we follow Gerti to Vienna, the focus here more tightly on the doomed woman.