Disguised Blessings: A wife's story of her Wall Street husband turned bank robber

by Jeanne Callahan Trantel

Jeanne Trantel's life was perfect-or so it seemed. She had it a loving husband who worked on Wall Street, two beautiful, healthy sons, and a dream home in the affluent Long Island community where she grew up, surrounded by friends and family. But then, with one phone call, the life she knew and loved came crashing down around her.

Genres: Ebooks

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 20, 2010

Reviews

[Jan Tisdale · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jeanne had a perfect life, her husband worked on Wall Street. She soon discovered instead of him going to work, he was robbing banks. She was consumed by anger and faced with mounds of bills. She entered her darkest time in her life. It’s a story of hope, faith, love and power of forgiveness.
“ they had a great relationship, when he was going in debt, why didn’t he tell her, what makes a person do something so wrong’.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

This wasn’t terrible. Interesting story, not great writing, but still I finished it. I always wondered about people who turned to have been living a double life and how they hid it so well.

[Ronnie Cramer · Rating 2 out of 5]

A short book (105 pages) about woman who moves ahead with her life after learning that her husband is a crook. She shares so much of her recovery and its process that I was expecting to hear about how this book came together. Nope; plenty of typos though. Not bad for what it is (her side of the story), but I'd prefer reading a conventional true crime book about this very strange and interesting case.

[TC · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a life-changing memoir, but, still an interesting account of the wife of a supposedly respectable Wall Street trader who snapped one day and began robbing banks (much documented at the time in the news and still in rotation on CNBC's American Greed, where I first heard of it). There's definitely a compelling story here under the covers, one that I wish, say, Krzysztof Kieslowski was alive to make into a movie, but the author doesn't dawdle on nuance or build dramatic tension--she just tells it flat-out, with minimal detail, a little internal dialogue, and some newagey self-help-speak at the end. In fact it is at the end that she claims she most hopes this book helps others who may be in a similar situation--married to someone who's not what they seem, forced to deal with the consequences of their spouse's bad decisions. For someone like that, this might really hit home; for the rest of us, it's a quick book that reads like an extra-long article in Guideposts.

[Rachel Aranda · Rating 1 out of 5]

I had the hardest time reading this book. All the grammar and spelling errors bothered me tremendously. One of my friends wanted me to read this as she couldn't believe how gullible this woman was about how she didn't know why or what her husband committed all these bank robberies. It was already downloaded on their Kindle so I thought it was worth a shot. My sentiments ended up matching my friend's view. This story could have been so much more then it was, but it was honestly a badly written book. I couldn't finish it in one setting because of how bad the book was written.

[A · Rating 3 out of 5]

Found this book to be a very honest account of how one's life can be turned upside down without any knowledge of what is going on his/her life. It is an inspiration to anyone who feels their life can't get any worse.

[Jen Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy read, if you need a quick book this is the one

[Janet · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting book on how this woman coped with her life..easy read ..