Financial Fiction

Eleven years ago during Christmas, Martin Banks' family was thrown into the streets by wealthy landlord Edwin Hartwell. Now, this holiday season, fate has handed Martin an unexpected gift: vengeance. Defeating Hartwell at cards gives Martin the chance to financially ruin the man - but damn, instead of money, Hartwell offers his daughter as payment. And double damn, Martin stupidly accepts. How did retribution turn into seduction? Martin refuses to let himself fall in love, so there must be rules to this game. And perhaps a bit of romance.

À Genève, Alexandre Hoffmann est devenu millionnaire grâce à « l'indice de la peur », un algorithme qu'il a créé et qui détecte sur internet l'inquiétude autour de certains sujets. Ce qui lui permet d'exploiter avec brio les marchés financiers et de placer des fonds d'une manière aussi automatisée que fructueuse. Mais ce 6 mai 2010, tout tourne au vinaigre. Et alors que son algorithme est sur le point de créer un krach boursier, Alex est pris au piège. Pourra-t-il se libérer de sa création omnipotente ?

In a family that has everything, one tends to forget that some things are beyond even their control. After fate sends the family an unmistakable message, Christopher suddenly finds himself on the receiving end of a financial avalanche, yet fully incapable of managing or even understanding the full magnitude of it. In a world beset with vipers and jackals, he would be as helpless as a sheep led to slaughter in handling the family’s substantial financial assets.

When the protagonist joins a company steeped in fraud among its leaders, he is determined to repair the broken system. The owner knows the company's funds are channelled illegally, but believes that's simply the cost of doing business. However, the protagonist refuses to accept the status quo. Putting his career on the line, he works to overhaul the corrupt products and procedures that are bleeding the company dry. In doing so, he quickly makes enemies of those who benefit from the company's dishonest practices.

Sometimes love is toxic… Bree Dwyer is desperate to escape her husband, take the children and run. But he’s always watching. And she always gets caught. Until her first love, Alfie Jennings, returns to Essex… Gangsters Alfie and Vaughn have been out of the game for a while, but a life of...

A mysterious plum account leads to former Army Ranger and current investment broker Lou Christopher being recruited to resurrect his military skills under a threat of losing everything he has. Colonel Christopher has to summon all of his Ranger skills to cope with this danger, and discovers a source of strength he hadn't counted on before: his wife, who matches his adroitness in planning and evading discovery when the chips are down, and outwits all those foolish enough to underestimate her.

Perfect for fans of John Grisham, Greg Iles, and Linda Fairstein—this action-packed legal thriller debut races from the gleaming canyons of New York City to the hurricane-lashed waters of the Caribbean. Michael Rudolph’s Noble Chase combines a smart, determined heroine and a storm of...

A rollicking good mystery and witty tale of an international finance, Wall Street, money markets, espionage, kidnapping, bankers on the run, archeology, and far more.

Der große Crash - wer kann ihm entkommen? Die Weltwirtschaft schlittert in die Krise. Eine Gruppe Investoren rund um den Finanzmagnaten Francis Forsythe attackiert die angeschlagenen Notenbanken, um Bitcoin als neue Leitwährung durchzusetzen. Doch die alten Mächte wehren sich mit allen Mitteln. Eine entscheidende Rolle für den Ausgang des Konflikts kommt Satoshi Nakamoto zu, dem Erfinder der Digitalwährung, dessen Identität noch immer ein Geheimnis ist. Als der Journalist, Buchautor und Privatanleger Martin Freeman ihm durch einen Zufall auf die Spur kommt, hat das unvorhergesehene Konsequenzen.

BAD CEO • And How He Got There Conceived at Woodstock to a campus radical and a fleeting father, River Stevens was raised on a commune in Vermont and then plunged into poverty when the project failed. A brilliant student, he is accepted into MIT and then goes to Silicon Valley to work with Steve Jobs at NeXT. When that also failed, River starts his own company, eHomeLoan, with two friends, hoping to make getting a mortgage simpler, faster and cheaper for American families. Also, and not incidentally, to become a member of the Billionaire Boys Club.

Johanna, eine gewissenhafte Buchhalterin, wird plötzlich wegen Unterschlagung festgenommen. Sie ist schockiert, als sie herausfindet, dass ihr Chef Toni hinter dieser Intrige steckt. In ihrer Verzweiflung wendet sie sich an einen spezialisierten Anwalt, der ihr einen drastischen Ausweg vorschlägt: die letzte Abfahrt ZSHG. Wird Johanna den Mut aufbringen, ihr altes Leben hinter sich zu lassen, um sich und ihre kleine Tochter zu schützen?

This is the story of Roger Alcott, his wife, Susan, and their two boys. On the surface, Roger Alcott has it all — a well-paying job, a nice home, and luxury cars. Unfortunately, these have come at the expense of long hours and high stress of his corporate job. But most importantly, he's missing time with his wife and kids.

A man is found in his car, having met a painful death. Another man is found in the woods, clearly murdered. DI Aidan Burke seeks to establish the connection between these deaths. The first man is a wealthy property developer. Little is known about the second victim. Burke's sergeant, DS Fiona Moore, sets to work gathering evidence. But the investigation turns up some unusual findings that point to serious organized criminal activity.

The economy isn’t just for the economists to debate on. All of us are affected by its ups and downs—global recession, rise in interest rates, or hike in food prices. But do we understand the principles at work and how and why they really affect us? Day to Day Economics is an...

Bryan LeBlanc worked his way up into a plum position on Wall Street as the boy genius of the foreign exchange desk. Surrounded by "the few, the proud, the completely full of themselves", he decides to give Wall Street a taste of its own medicine and hatches an intricate plan to disappear permanently with just enough misappropriated money - and sailing classes - to spend his golden years cruising the Caribbean. Bryan quickly learns that being a criminal, even a really smart one, is more complicated than he thought. He finds himself on the run in the Cayman Islands, wanted for murder.

Set in Malaya, Almayer's Folly is Joseph Conrad's first novel. In it, he charts the decline of a Dutch merchant after a 25 year struggle against overwhelming odds. Though married to a bitter and hateful Malayan wife, Almayer refuses to accept the financial ruin which he has precipitated. Instead, he dreams of fantastic wealth and a return to the civilization of his youth, accompanied by his loving daughter, Nina.

In his groundbreaking first book, Changewave Investing, investment guru Tobin Smith revealed his secrets for scoring triple-digit returns in the stock market by focusing on the emerging sectors that had the best potential for explosive growth, what Smith referred to as change waves. Now, in an...

The Queen of Suspense, Mary Higgins Clark, delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing twists that could have been ripped from today’s headlines. When Nicholas Spencer, the charismatic head of a company that has developed an anticancer vaccine, disappears without a trace, reporter...

This is not a romantic comedy. This is not a fairy tale. This is not what you're expecting. Lies, secrets, betrayal. Marriage, divorce, sex. Love, heartbreak, money. Best friends. Old enemies. Soul mates. Happily Ever After comes in many forms. A Way to Get By is the story of how Brenda and Eddie found theirs.

The Troll Bridge tells the story of a young boy, Joel, and his encounter with the Troll who lives under a bridge. The greedy Troll charges everyone and everything that crossed the bridge and grew very wealthy. When disaster strikes however he needs the kindness of strangers to save him from a damp and miserable end.