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Table of Contents:
Chapters: 1 The Witness 2 The Funeral 3 The Liquidator 4 The Broker 5 Down And Out 6 Fishing For Gold 7 A Russian Scam 8 The Silver Fox 9 New Friends 10 The Loch 11 The Incubator 12 The Coffee Trader 13 Pearl 14 The Plan 15 The Killing 16 A Prize Sucker 17 Pumping Prices 18 Golden Days 19 Money And Control 20 Perforated Pride 21 Falling Apart 22 Consequences -- Epilogue

About the Author :
NEIL BEHRMANN, a journalist and author based in London was a prolific commodity, mining and personal finance correspondent of the Wall Street Journal. He is correspondent and columnist for Business Times, Singapore and writes for UK and other publications. Neil's major news breaking stories and investigative features include several billion dollar scandals, including rogue traders Nick Leeson of Barings and Yasuo Hamanaka, perpetrator of the Sumitomo copper fraud. Neil has covered energy and coffee market crises and wrote a ground breaking feature on the hidden hoard of former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos. He has also written numerous pieces on Bernie Madoff and several other major hedge fund scams and dealings in the diamond trade. Neil has been interviewed on radio and TV. Examples of his articles and columns are placed on NeilBehrmann.net. Neil's children's anti-war fantasy, Butterfly Battle-The Story of The Great Insect War, received excellent reviews. 'My aim was to write a thriller with a difference,' says Neil. 'Besides murder, romance and the ultimate twist,Trader Jack describes how uncontrolled money motivation leads to arrogance, greed and the potential for corruption and fraud.' Selective articles are on neilbehrmann.net

Review :
Neil Behrmann has pulled off a literary coup with Trader Jack. He has crossed the frontier of financial commentary - where his penetrating analysis has earned a global reputation for exceptional quality - into the world of fiction and created a gem. This is not just a financial thriller which keeps the reader spell-bound through a roller-coaster ride in market speculation. It deeply stirs the emotions - in particular anguish for the lead character, Jack. Some may see in him the alienated outsider, but he is also a descendant of Voltaire's naive, gullible ingenue. Jack journeys through the global financial markets, populated by villains, but he also encounters goodness. This gripping story which I couldn't put down, is in its deepest sense a scathing indictment of shallowness, greed and hubris, interspersed with humour of the absurd. Trader Jack will bemuse and entrance all those lucky enough to find their way to it. -- Brendan Brown, author of Euro Crash and The Global Curse of The Federal Reserve, is Executive Director and Chief Economist of Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International. *** For once, the blurb does not exaggerate - Trader Jack is a "gripping story" and a real page-turner. Just as in life right now we want to know what will happen to our pensions, jobs and savings, so in this tale we want to know how Jack Miner will survive, putting all his future into the world of hedge funds and short selling. Like Dickens with Oliver Twist, Neil Behrmann uses the young hero to show up the corrupt and manipulative adult world - in this case, not crooked beadles and housebreakers, but the rather larger villains of international trading and the manipulation of commodities (with all their knock-on effect for the poor of the world) . Unlike Oliver, though,Jack has an emotional hinterland, and as the plot moves on we wonder, is he less Oliver and more the Artful Dodger? You will need to read on to find out, and also to meet a Dickensian sweep of colourful characters. Running throughout the novel is a debate about the risks the western world is facing from the movement of enormous sums of money - to the lay reader like myself an arcane subject, but one to which Neil Behrmann gives a human face. This thriller stands alongside John Lanchester's Whoops in giving insight into the extraordinary world of the money market of today. - RE, Teacher & Principal


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780953384310
  • Publisher: New End Books
  • Publisher Imprint: New End Books
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Story of Jack Miner Series
  • Sub Title: The Story of Jack Miner
  • ISBN-10: 0953384314
  • Publisher Date: 31 Oct 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 198 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Width: 128 mm


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