The Last Trade
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3.8 • 16 Ratings
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
James Conway has written the corporate thriller for our age, an age when the power of new media and the hunger of Wall Street converge to form a deadly entity capable of bringing the global economy to its knees.
Drew Havens made a killing for the Rising Fund, which, thanks to his prognostications, was the only hedge operation to anticipate and capitalize on the mortgage crisis of 2008. Havens sees things others can’t, from the collapse of the American real estate market to the multibillion-dollar rise of his ruthless and charismatic boss. Havens is rich beyond his dreams, but his work has cost him his marriage. And now it may cost him his life.
It starts with the brutal murder of his young protégé and, over the course of six days, six other brokers around the world, each killed after executing a trade linked to the Rising Fund. And as the violence escalates to an international level, Havens frantically tries to construct a model that will reveal the catastrophic event that only he can see coming—and confirm that his boss and the Rising Fund are at the center of it.
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Hedge fund manager Rick Salvado smacks of villainy from page one of the pseudonymous Conway's impressive first thriller. Thanks to the work of his 28-year-old "stat-arb quant," good guy Drew Havens, Salvado profited immensely when the housing bubble burst in 2008, as did Havens. But when the action opens in October 2011, Havens, who's uncertain about his career choice, worries about the possibly dangerous direction the fund is taking, based on cryptic messages about strange trading activity from his prot g , Danny Weiss. When the bodies begin to fall, starting with a trader in Hong Kong, Cara Sobieski, an agent of the Terrorism and Financial Intelligence task force, gets on the case. Sobieski, the financial world equivalent of Lisbeth Salander, makes a more compelling hero than the brilliant but often clueless Havens. While Conway, billed as "a hedge fund insider," at times bogs down in exposition, he offers a compulsively readable look into the arcane world of high finance.
