CHAPTER NINE
CASSANDRA PRICE, or Cass, as her close friends and colleagues knew her, was a rising star in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. At forty-eight years of age, she had built a first class reputation for herself within the agency as a capable, no-nonsense banking regulator, in spite of numerous obstacles along the way. Although typically far more capable, and often better qualified than most counterparts she encountered over the years, whether male or female, the tall, statuesque and remarkably attractive, blond regulator had still been plagued for the better part of her career by all the typical stereotypes associated with someone of her looks.
Cass possessed an undergraduate degree in accounting from Northern Illinois University—a school critically acclaimed for it
