Financial Mystery

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.

Der Mord an einem Beamten wird in null Komma nichts aufgeklärt, doch Kommissar Charitos misstraut der Sache. Wie überhaupt alles um ihn herum zu schön ist, um wahr zu sein. Die Leute genießen das Leben, als hätte es nie eine Krise gegeben. Das schnelle Geld fordert jedoch seinen Tribut: Der Mord an dem Beamten war erst der Anfang.

Wall Street banker John Thatcher is drawn into this mystery as a financial man seeking to get his bank repaid. Thatcher gets involved to try to recover a loan/debenture done by the Sloan's incompetent investment manager on the way out.

This is the third of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers, featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust, who gets to the bottom of things by cutting through various business goings-on. He's a famous accountant who swoops down on a company to examine the books, dissident shareholders, community groups, and others to examine the financial motives in order to nail the killer. A humorous romp for those who like humor and good writing in their mysteries.

In the shady world of investing, Kyle Carlisle finds himself in a rather mundane spot of mostly dealing with newbies who like to break the rules. That's all about to change when the job of his dreams comes his way. GenX, a biotech firm that specializes in virus and vaccine research, also mines its own cryptocurrency RedKoin. Amy Pandemos is its young and beautiful CEO, who tracks down Kyle to have him run the crypto operation.