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In this timely stand-alone thriller ripped from the headlines, New York Times bestselling author James Grippando, whom the Wall Street Journal calls “a writer to watch,” explores a world in which the destruction of financial institutions and the people who run them can occur in a matter of hours—perhaps even minutes.
At thirty-one, Michael Cantella is a rising star at Wall Street’s premier investment bank, Saxton Silvers. Everything is going according to plan until Ivy Layton, the love of his life, vanishes on their honeymoon in the Bahamas.
Fast-forward four years. It’s the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, and Michael is still on track: successful career, beautiful new wife, piles of money. Reveling in his good fortune, Michael logs in to his computer, enters his password, and pulls up his biggest investment account: Zero balance. He tries another, and another. All of them zero. Someone has wiped him out. His only clue is a new e-mail message: Just as planned. xo xo.
With these three words Michael’s life as he knows it is liquidated, along with his investment portfolio. Saxton Silvers is suddenly on the brink of bankruptcy, and he’s the leading suspect in its ruin. Michael is left alone, framed, and facing divorce, with undercover FBI agents afoot, spyware on his computer, and mysterious e-mails from a “JBU.” Embroiled in corporate espionage, he’s desperate to clear his name and realizes that several signs point to his first wife, Ivy, as a key player. But what if Ivy has come back from the dead, only to visit on Michael a fate worse than death?
With echoes of The Firm, James Grippando’s newest thriller takes readers to the inner circle of Wall Street, illustrating the very real dangers of what Warren Buffett called “financial weapons of mass destruction.”
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Money to Burn: A Novel of Suspense
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Proving once again that not a single coin, with its series Swytek Jack, James Grippando brings a taut thriller and make time in financial markets on Wall Street, just before falling into a recession is a marvel actuelle.Michael Cantella Wall Street, riding the crest of the wave that has boosted the country’s financial astounding levels of prosperity, remarried after the tragic death of his first wife and vie.Mais beauty in Michael’s world is about collapsing around their ears, like all his money mysteriously disappears, his job in jeopardy, his wife leaves him and – worst of all – people start dying. follow Michael at this superbly entertaining novel while trying to unravel the thread of clues as to who is behind the destruction of his life. In a book full of memorable characters living and playing in a field full of twists and surprises, will not be able to put bas.Je could pas.Cinq étoiles.Rating: 5 / 5
I liked this book I have another, but it could not stop. Even with all his explanations on matters of money and inventory, details of Wall Street are still some things hard to understand, but it slows down and the characters are interesting. There was a scene involving a television series that was fairly predictable, except that speed was in the stern. Grippo is a smart writer and a good storyteller. Rating: 5 / 5
I had never read a novel before Grippo, but I’m always looking for a financial thriller Good /, which are so difficult to find. It offers the pelle.Court Summary: Suddenly, a successful stockbroker on Wall Street has ended his life derailed. Their personal accounts mysteriously disappeared, the bank several billion dollars of investment for which he worked suddenly collapsing with it is created as the one behind it is dead He is being investigated by the FBI and someone tries to kill him. Seeking revenge against him and why? The dead his ex-wife has to do with it? Can you stop? Who can you trust? And you can save your own life and the lives of those he loves? It’s a fast pace, financial thriller that takes you on a roller coaster of plot twists and turns, well, worth the trip. Well planned and well written, but also provides an interesting view of post-9/11 financial scandals of the investment banks on Wall Street, deftly playing the themes of the Internet boom / bust and busts risk mortgage schemes Ponzi and the collapse of major institutions. It relates very well what with an insight into the culture of Wall Street that led to these scandales.Même if the opportunity for me, was a bit over the top in a couple of “gun slinging scenes truly evil villain “(particularly towards the end), which certainly does not prevent me want to keep turning the pages and enjoy the history that had tissue! Bottom Line: If you like financial or commercial thrillers, such as Power Play, the largest producer: A Novel, Naked Option, or paranoia – you’ll like this! Rating: 4 / 5
With the exception of the first novel by Christopher Reich, account numbers and books of some of his other books, and the low profile, but is also really good by Michael Ridpath (trade, the risk of predators or Final), there was the Police shortage of good Wall Street no. That is a pity, because much of what happens in the street can not do justice to the form of fiction – and the suspense and thriller novels there. Because, frankly, not even half believe otherwise. . . I had high hopes of advancing to the novel legal Grippo in the world, and certainly offers a quick pace and lively narrative. (The timing of the publication of the book is so complete stranger!) The plot revolves around the hapless Michael Cantella, who finds his life begins to crumble around him as short sellers are beginning to attack the investment bank for which works, Saxton Silvers. Everything is wrong: his wife, two days after throwing a birthday party, now wants a divorce, someone has stolen your identity and raided their accounts, and now he is held responsible for the downfall of his own firm on Wall Street. Is this linked to his brief marriage to Ivy, who died on their honeymoon in the Caribbean? Michael never lost the hope that it could still be alive, and there are indications of growing this is really the case. . . There are echoes of Harlan Coben, Tell No One: A Novel here, and many of the background is taken from the headlines, citing a long list of television. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but added a few twists highly unlikely (and a plot that is quite complex, involving credit default swaps credit and short sales, causing some readers to switch off) I ended up lowering the score of 3 . 5 stars. I rounded to 4 stars, because for most readers, this is both a thriller and a good way to get a little control over what happened on Wall Street. Those familiar with Wall Street and following the news over the past two years will have a smile at the antics of Jim Cramer, as shown on TV Pundit “FNN” (also known as CNBC), and the appearance of the user by the great Steve Cohen’s hedge fund 8 million stuffed shark, but you can skip pages are here and explaining the context. For some of them – or for those who lost their homes, jobs, savings, etc. during the collapse – this may be too familiar a story too painful to read as fiction to be more than a three star read. So is recommended for thriller purists (those who have enjoyed previous Grippo mysteries, or the first book by Christopher Reich would be too much to what, as here) who have been battered by the crisis on Wall Street, Bernie Madoff, etc. and feel well able to cope with a series of events that all vécu.Mais sham treatment if you are looking for other financial thrillers, I suggest you pursue the book by Michael Ridpath’s. Published in late 1990, most are resilient, and I still hope to return with a little more. They are certainly sold 4 to 4. 5-star accommodation for me, most have been exhausted, but well worth seeking out. Or, if you want a real insider have a mystery on Wall Street, look for the Golden Dog, Scott Sipprell, a former Morgan Stanley banker and later a hedge fund manager who was instrumental in the overthrow Phil Purcell, former CEO of Morgan. It is self-published, and not as polished in terms of style or structure, but Sipprell knows all the intricacies of Wall Street. Rating: 4 / 5
Money to Burn “by James Grippando read Michael Cantella banker, who works at the prestigious Wall Street firm Silvers Saxon is an ambitious man, to his rich life begins to transform into a book cauchemar.Le begins in November 2003, with Michael Silvers go on Caribbean cruise sponsored by the Saxons, with his girlfriend Ivy Layton and his fellow investment banking. When the cruise in Miami, Ivy felt immediately as if it follows the girlfriends chatting about Michael and colleagues suggest a private charter cruise. To his surprise, Michael agrees and the loving couple to marry even while enjoying their cruise. Soon after, Michael wakes up and Ivy disparu.Fast Forward in May 2007, and Michael is married to his high school friend Mallory and still Silvers Saxon works. To the chagrin of Mallory, still secretly in love with Ivy, despite its disparition.Peu long after the thirty-fifth anniversary, Michael wakes up to find out, your portfolio has been lost – with the entire balance transferred to an offshore account, they never had. As if that were not enough, reports started to move Silvers Sexton is in trouble after leaking information about their twenty-two billion mortgage amortization subprime.Dans Meanwhile, Michael begins to be charged with insider trading, financial engineering and even ruin Saxon Silvers. The rumors are led by a TV reporter Chuck Bell, who has a ball, while destroying the reputation of Michael and the company, while refusing to disclose the identity of his informant secret.Entre – time, Michael received a strange package that blows on his hands and discovers she is being observed. someone to ruin your life and destroy all Silvers.Dans Saxons, “Money to Burn” is attractive reading. J I read the whole book in one day. At first I was attracted to this book for your interest in the recent merger of Wall Street. But the establishment of non-resistant, the book is filled with some sequences of strong action and twists. Rating: 5 / 5
AIG sold credit default swaps to cover defaults on 400 billion worth of the CDO bonds that included sub prime toxic loans. So when the bonds went into default, they needed to pay for the bonds, and they didn’t have the money to do it. Think of swaps as being insurance, but insurance is regulated, so they didn’t call it that—classic George Orwell double speak—and it is a lot more like insurance fraud if you cannot pay ….!