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For John Borden, death is the least of his worries. It’s 1989 and John’s an unscrupulous waterbed salesman sleeping through life—until he meets Claire, a beautiful psychic, at a tarot party. Claire draws seven cards and predicts John will suffer seven absurd events over the next seven days, culminating with a cosmic gut punch: he will die on the seventh day. But John doesn’t believe in this “psychic stuff.” That is, until Claire’s predictions start coming true with eerie precision, forcing John to face some hard questions. Can you cheat fate? Are there worse things than death?

Discussion Materials gives the listener an honest look at Wall Street from someone in the trenches. After graduating from Columbia Business School, Bill Keenan joined Deutsche Bank's investment banking division as an associate where despotic superiors (and the blinking red light of his BlackBerry) instilled low-level terror on an hourly basis. You'll join him in his cubicle on the 44th floor of 60 Wall Street as he scrambles to ensure floating bar charts are the correct shade of orange and all numbers are left-aligned, but whatever you do, don't ask him what any of it means.