ISBN-13: 9780811202275 / Angielski / Miękka / 1970 / 338 str.
The Build-Up, Volume 3 of the Stecher Trilogy, picks up the thread of White Mule and In the Money. Although all of the novels deal with the triumphant rise of an immigrant family in the early 1900s, the Build-up is more concerned with the overwhelming drive and ambition of Joe Stecher's wife, Gurlie.