Andrew Bevel

Andrew Bevel is a prominent financier who values privacy and is largely disinterested in social interactions. In the first book in Trust, “Bonds”, the fictional author, Howard Vanner, depicts Bevel, under the pseudonym Benjamin Rask, as a callous businessman. The financier comes from a long lineage of wealth that provided him with the financial footing to start his own businesses and the capital to invest on Wall Street. He marries Mildred, who is significantly younger than him, and their marriage is largely successful because they both enjoy seclusion and have little interest “entertaining board members and investors” (22). When Mildred begins to lose her sanity, Bevel agrees to admit her to a sanitorium in Switzerland. When he is dissatisfied with Dr. Frahm’s methods, that he characterizes as being “based on superstitions and unquantifiable guesswork”, he hires Dr. Aftus to care for his wife with convulsion therapy (109). In...