Financial Fiction

Star-trading Clan Korval - known to Terrans as the Tree-and-Dragon Family and to the locals simply as the Dragon - has been convicted of crimes against the homeworld. No matter that one of the "crimes" consisted of saving the elitist planet of Liad from very real internal threats, the Council of Clans wanted Korval heads to roll. Unfortunately for the council, the Dragon's allies conspired to impose a milder punishment for saving the world: banishment rather than execution.

Can you picture a societal collapse so bad that the land becomes uninhabitable? What happens when it's up to one small group of people to reverse the societal collapse?After the collapse of society, Jason now lives in a house on a small island in the middle of the sea. Over the years, he had heard tales about what life was like on the land, but he had never experienced it for himself. He eventually discovers that the land was taken over by pirates many years ago. The societal collapse caused by the pirates was so severe that it drove many people to the sea. The people who remained on the ...

Philip Dunbar is a slacker. A newly minted college graduate, Philip is unsure of what to do with his life. With pressure from his father and U.S. Senator, Philip enters a chaotic job market, spending months looking for work until he finally lands a job at a local branch for a major bank. Dealing with psychotic customers and impossible sales goals, Philip is eventually fired due to his poor sales performance. But after accidentally uncovering a Ponzi scheme, Philip is rehired and is thrust into the world of corporate finance, getting promoted to work in New York City. It is there Philip ...

This book was previously published as "Financial Punishment: the Naughty C.P.A." by Reba Bale What happens when the people who make your pleasure toys decide to let their hair down? Toys for Grown-Ups is the leading national retailer for adult activities. But even toy developers need downtime, so CEO Robert Calloway decides to take his team to the mountains for a team-building retreat. One that will have plenty of time for fun… Elaine Robertson feels like the lone voice of reason in her company. As the chief financial officer, she’s more worried about audits and spreadsheets than ...

Lieutenant Ethan Hendricks’ greatest nightmare just also happens to be his grandfather’s newest business venture. Logan Hendricks is thrilled about his brand new detective agency’s first case, but things weren’t turning out the way they were supposed to, including the attempted murder of one of his brand new employees. But he figures their next case, which involves finding a missing sister, should go a lot smoother. How dangerous could it be? Ethan Hendricks wasn’t quite as confident about his grandfather’s new hobby, or that the supposedly straight-forward case of a missing ...

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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.

“Daddy, why isn’t that man swimming?” Stand-Alone story of a wealthy private equity investor and a greedy CEO's quest to maximize profit at any cost. The body floating near the family’s sailboat triggers a request for Steve Wilson to complete the dead man's due diligence assignment. Join Steve as he navigates a path between power-driven executives to uncover the truth about the accountant's body in Boothbay Harbor. Why are Steve’s requests for financial data stonewalled at every turn? Is it just arrogance and greed, or an attempt to hide something deeper? Can he trust the woman ...

AN EARTH-SHATTERING SECRET. A LONG-LOST KEY. A LETHAL PURSUIT... One letter. Multiple revelations. A secret buried in Venice may spell humanity's final chapter... After a mysterious letter summons Adrian West and Nick Harper to Venice, a revelation from the past shatters Adrian's world. They must pick up the pieces to unravel the threads of a conspiracy rooted deep in Venetian history--and the city's labyrinthine heart. In a desperate race from Venice's mist-shrouded canals, the ancient streets of Dubrovnik, to the Byzantine-era relics of Istanbul, Adrian and Nick must prevent a clandestine...

This time the stakes are higher with not just his life, but those of his family at risk. 1995 and Rupert Brett is riding a market gone wild with greed and crazy money. With the American Sub-Prime madness just beginning, Brett seeks new markets where he finds international money laundering, double dealing and murder. Reporting to the British government they task him once again to spy for them. The trail leads to high finance property deals, cocaine smuggling and the glamorous international polo circuit. Teaming again with SAS sergeant Chris Adams, they are pitted against drug cartels, Irish ...

Danny Larson has weird dreams. Pretty normal for a human, except Danny’s dreams are coming true and nothing will prepare him, or anyone else for what’s coming. Crisis doesn’t cover the imploding nature of the financial disaster that’s coming for everyone and anyone who uses money, the soon-to-be worthless paper that just about everyone on earth relies on to transact business. From buying groceries, cars and houses, to daily survival, money will become nothing but burnable material in a world that isn’t nearly ready for a collapse. When Danny notices his colleagues starting to act ...

Two babies disappear from the White House. The president has no clue…Reeling from the tragic death of her husband, Alex fights to save his legendary architectural firm and expose his ex, Vivien, who nearly destroyed it. With Vivien and her accomplices behind bars, Alex believes the nightmare is finally over. She marries Perry, a successful entrepreneur and a rising political star. Balancing motherhood to newborn twins with her demanding new roles in business and politics, Alex feels secure, certain the criminals she helped incarcerate can no longer harm her family. But vengeance never ...

Ex-Navy specialist, Teague Chavez, can repair temperamental marine diesels or kill a man twenty different ways, but life after the military is a rough go. He winds up as a liveaboard bodyguard and ship’s captain trying to keep his sexy high-risk client alive while sailing the tropical seas. Alice is the client, a forensic accountant and a genius with numbers. She used to ferret out corruption in the international banking system working with the highest echelon of DC insiders. Bitterly disillusioned with the system, she goes rogue with a new career of ‘lite crime’. Crushed and ...

Introducing "Down & Out in Manhattan," a gripping financial thriller that will take you on a thrilling journey through the dark side of high finance. Jack Cole, an ambitious analyst at an investment banking firm, is about to discover that in the cutthroat world of Wall Street, the line between success and ruin is razor-thin. When a chance encounter with his firm's enigmatic owner thrusts him into the heart of a high-stakes conspiracy, Jack's life takes an unexpected turn. Witness Jack's rise from obscurity to the pinnacle of success, only to be mercilessly stripped of everything he holds ...

It's been five weeks since the coronal mass ejection wiped out the power grid, and Cole's town is beginning to see what it's like to witness depletion of food and water. When nearly twenty-five hundred violent offenders break out of a nearby prison, things only get worse. The world is in a state of pandemonium, and the townspeople are getting increasingly desperate for supplies, even resorting to threatening each other. Cole knows that the town's best chance for survival depends on their ability to work together. But in a world where no one trusts each other, it becomes a lone struggle for ...

This is an uplifting Christmas story about two rival small town lawyers who loathe each other. Raymond Collins is a totally honest guy but a financial failure as an attorney. Parker Jones is the complete opposite, a rich, greedy and shady lawyer. Both run their legal practices in the tiny town of Lakeport, Ontario and they shower each other with caustic insults whenever they meet. When Jones concocts a brilliant scheme to ruin Collins, a series of complex events unfold which ultimately give rise to unexpected payback in the form of The Christmas Lawyer. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. ...

"Readers will root for the sympathetic Duncan as he morphs into a more grounded version of James Bond or Jason Bourne." --Publishers Weekly Duncan Luke has a bad feeling about his next job for BIG. Ghislaine Bingham wants him to fly to Niger to investigate a uranium concession near the Libyan border owned by her stepson's new partner, Salah. Duncan suspects the man is secretly dealing arms, but the region blows up in violence before he can get answers. His gut says Ghislaine isn’t telling him the full truth, but he misreads her motives for subterfuge; she is the victim of a blackmail ...

An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the evicted families. A group of young people squatting in an apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The Hospital for Broken Things, which specializes in repairing the artifacts of a vanished world. William Wyler's 1946 classic The Best Years of Our Lives. These are just some of the elements Auster magically weaves together in this immensely moving novel about contemporary America and its ghosts.

Ross and his nine-year-old son are on their way home when the train suddenly stops moving. Trapped in the pitch black dark subway tunnel, the passengers soon realize they are unable to get a cellphone signal. As far they know, the power outage appears to be widespread. Needless to say, the airports and train stations are forced to shut down. Ross and Porter need to get back to the rest of their family. But how can they get home when their house is over two-thousand miles away? How will they purchase supplies after the economy completely collapses? How can they barter for food and water when...

Leaving home can be a dangerous journey. . . Not leaving home can be even more dangerous. A worldwide terrorist attack hits all of the major cities, causing an EMP. Austin is fortunate enough to survive the devastating, apocalyptic event. But with a collapsed economy, and terrorists roaming the streets, he soon realizes the real trouble is far from over.