![]() | Obscene Gestures of an Invisible Hand: Financial Doom and the Death of Culture - The Lighter Side by Jeffrey Trester
Buy new: $12.58 / Used from: $8.00 Brilliant suspense as currency trader triggers crisis, tries to contain it before it destroys him. Great Manhattan/Wall Street atmosphere, tinged with humor and even poetry.
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![]() | Killer Instinct by Joseph Finder
Buy used from: $0.01 Electronics company marketing exec befriends ex-special forces truck driver after car accident. Gets vet hired, and bad things start happening to rivals. Fun twist as he deals with "guardian angel".
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![]() | The Contrarians: A Novel by Gary Sernovitz
Buy used from: $4.77 Sernovitz's literate and quite amusing view of the conflicted worlds of Wall Street analysts and journalists.
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![]() | The Patriots Club by Christopher Reich
Buy used from: $0.20 Financier from the streets set up by secret cabal dating back to the Founding Fathers. Sort of a blend of The Firm and the film National Treasure with a touch of Erdman thrown in; not a bad chase.
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![]() | False Impression by Jeffrey Archer
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $0.01 Van Gogh-stealing private banker plays game of cat and mouse with an art historian in the wake of the destruction of the Trade Center. Interesting premise.
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![]() | The Collectors by David Baldacci
Buy used from: $0.01 Baldacci's latest puts financial twist on intrigues of "The Camel Club". While battling intelligence trader, the oddball investigators get entangled with con artist who's fleecing a casino tycoon.
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![]() | Trust by Charles Epping
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $3.18 Dark, gripping suspense as Swiss bank's computer expert traces money-laundering hijackers of account used to shield Jewish family's assets during the Holocaust. Written by an insider.
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![]() | The Set-Up by Paul Erdman
Buy used from: $0.01 Erdman successfully revisits his favorite theme of a jailed financier making a comeback (he did a little time himself and we've seen the theme in Silver Bears and Zero Coupon).
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![]() | Mergers & Acquisitions by Dana Vachon
Buy new: $19.16 / Used from: $0.01 A Gen-Y entry-level I-banker roman à clef and a humorous take on the world of M&A with all its attendant greed and insanity.
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![]() | The Millionaires by Brad Meltzer
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Meltzer's fun if fanciful tale of embezzlement as revenge in the world of private banking and yes, Disneyworld.
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![]() | The Financier by Theodore Dreiser
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.66 Dreiser's classic, and proof that even if the terms and methods of finance have changed since the 19th century, the hearts of men have not.
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![]() | Moral Hazard: A Novel by Kate Jennings
Buy new: $10.75 / Used from: $0.01 Wall Street speechwriter confronts financial fantasy at work while dealing with Alzheimer afflicted husband's own reality breaks at home. Interesting contrast; insightful, amusing and heartbreaking.
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![]() | Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai by Ben Mezrich
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $3.84 High-flying dealings and debauchery from the NYMEX to the Persian Gulf, as tyro trader helps transform the energy markets. Very "of the moment" story from the author of 'Bringing Down The House"
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![]() | The Power Broker: A Novel by Stephen Frey
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $0.01 Latest in 'Christian Gillete" series, as Everett Capital CEO weighs V.P. run with first African-American Pres. nominee, vies with secret and powerful white right-wing cabal. Fast-paced and intriguing.
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![]() | Present Value: A Novel by Sabin Willett
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $0.01 Interesting morality tale of insider trading scandal at Enron-esque toy comapny, Funny and knowing observations of suburban climbing, fall and (perhaps) redemption. Touch of Wolfe here.
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![]() | The Marketmaker by Michael Ridpath
Buy used from: $0.01 Interesting look at the London finacial scene, and if the plot's plausibility is a little questionable at times, the pacing makes up for it.
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![]() | Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Ocean's Eleven meets Goodwill Hunting as a team card-counting MIT students raid the Strip. Off-beat and entertaining.
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![]() | Chameleon by Richard Hains
Buy new: $19.96 / Used from: $0.45 Hedonistic trader teams with Russian mob to manipulate the bond market; lethal game ensues when scheme backfires. Fairly standard plot and characters, but some interesting insights into finance.
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![]() | Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.54 The City of London goes cyberpunk in this follow-up to the very imaginative "Altered Carbon", and while some of this may seem like warmed-over Gibson, the road rage alone is worth the read.
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![]() | Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.44 International consultant bribes and blackmails foreign powers into debt, uses leverage to further corporate, intelligence, & military interests. Don't know if fact or fiction, but an interesting read.
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![]() | The Deadly Trade: A Novel by Ken Morris
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $1.05 Interesting mix of financial and international intrigue, as equity analyst uncovers bio-weapon terror plot.
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![]() | Anonymous Lawyer: A Novel by Jeremy Blachman
Buy used from: $0.12 Misanthropic hiring partner at prestigious law firm secretly blogs about colleagues while clawing for chairmanship, finds himself imperiled by possible unmasking. Very funny and suspenseful.
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![]() | Company: A Novel by Max Barry
Buy used from: $0.01 A darkly humorous look at corporate life, as new recruit tries to figure out what the giant firm he works for actually does. And the "donut incident" is truly priceless.
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![]() | Numbered Account by Christopher Reich
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 The darkest look inside Swiss banking since Erdman, and a good read.
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![]() | Zero Coupon by Paul Erdman
Buy used from: $0.01 Another strong outing from Erdman - if the characters are a little bit cardboard, he makes up for it with some first-rate scheming.
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![]() | Conflicted: A Novel by Michael Culp
Buy used from: $0.01 Knowing tale of I-bank research director and his lieutenants wrestling with ethical quarries and myriad temptations, all while chasing huge payday.
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![]() | The Deal
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $0.39 Slater, Loggia turn in great perfromances in tale of investment bankers embroiled in shady oil deal in the East. Thought-provoking and timely.
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![]() | Wall and Mean: A Novel by Tom Bernard
Buy new: $21.14 / Used from: $1.48 Hard-edged tale of early 90's bond trader up against the markets and the mob.
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![]() | Wall Street Noir (Akashic Noir)
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.24 Interesting collection of short, dark tales of finance set around the world ("Wall Stret" meaning the global markets as opposed to the NYC locale. Includes works by some well-known names in the biz.
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![]() | Wall Street Meat: My Narrow Escape from the Stock Market Grinder by Andy Kessler
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $1.45 Kessler's wonderfully gossipy, down and dirty account of his adventures amongst the super-analysts of the dot-com bubble. Truely stranger than fiction.
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