The Gods Of Greenwich

Author : Norb Vonnegut
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429961875

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The Gods of Greenwich by Norb Vonnegut Pdf

Forget about Bernie Madoff or Gordon Gekko—there's a new villain on Wall Street... Norb Vonnegut didn't realize how close he skirted to non-fiction when he was writing his spectacular debut Top Producer. Penned before tumultuous revelations and scandals rocked the financial world in late 2008, Vonnegut's novel depicts, with an insider's solid knowledge, the tricks that the industry's real top producers pull in their frenzied pursuit of billions. Now Vonnegut sets his electrifying follow-up in the high-rolling world of hedge funds, lending his seasoned perspective to a riveting thriller. Jimmy Cusack is the tough kid from a blue-collar neighborhood who made good on Wall Street. Well, almost. After a sterling start to his career, things have soured. His hedge fund has collapsed. The bank is foreclosing on his upscale condominium. And his wife is two months pregnant. That's the good news. When Cusack takes a "must-have" job with Leeser Capital, a Greenwich fund impervious to the capital market woes, his real troubles begin. Vonnegut's unique insider's perspective and his intuitive, darkly humorous writing are once again on full display in this fast-talking suspense thriller. A high-stakes poker game of a book, The Gods of Greenwich is a timely and gripping read that will keep you glued to the edge of your seat until the last card is played.

Author : Norb Vonnegut
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312384696

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The Gods of Greenwich by Norb Vonnegut Pdf

When his hedge fund collapses after the start of a promising Wall Street career, Jimmy Cusack, a former blue-collar youth with a pregnant wife, desperately accepts a job with a powerful corporate fund only to discover his new employer's criminally cutthroat business practices. By the author of Top Producer. 60,000 first printing.

Author : Norb Vonnegut
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250014771

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The Trust by Norb Vonnegut Pdf

"Mr. Vonnegut dreams up diabolically elegant business crimes, then sends smart-talking characters to follow the money. He draws upon his own Wall Street experience (with Morgan Stanley, among other employers) to provide the sound of insider acumen.... There's enough novelty to this plot to set "The Trust" apart from garden-variety business thrillers, the ones in which Bernard Madoff stand-ins run Ponzi schemes. Anyway, Mr. Vonnegut is just getting started." -The New York Times Norb Vonnegut lends his unique insider's perspective and his darkly humorous writing to a fast-talking suspense thriller that takes readers inside the high-rolling world of global finance. One sultry morning in Charleston, South Carolina, real estate magnate Palmer Kincaid's body washes ashore, the apparent victim of accidental drowning. Palmer's daughter calls Grove O'Rourke, stockbroker and hero of Top Producer, for help getting her family's affairs in order. Palmer was Grove's mentor and client, the guy who opened doors to a world beyond Charleston. Grove steps in as the interim head of the Palmetto Foundation, an organization Palmer created to encourage philanthropy. Community foundations, like the Palmetto Foundation, are conduits. Philanthropists gift money to them and propose the ultimate beneficiaries. But in exchange for miscellaneous benefits-anonymity, investment services, and favorable tax treatment-donors lose absolute control. Once funds arrive, community foundations can do whatever they decide. For years Palmer showed great sensitivity to his donors, honoring their wishes to funnel funds into the charities of their choice-his unspoken pledge-and it was this largesse which made him a respected pillar of the Charleston community. But after Grove authorizes a $25 million transfer requested by a priest from the Catholic Fund, he discovers something is terribly wrong. He gets a call from Biscuit Hughes, a lawyer representing the people of Fayetteville, North Carolina, against a new sex superstore in their town. Biscuit has traced the store's funding to a most unlikely source: the Catholic Fund. Together, Grove and Biscuit launch an investigation into the fund, but the deeper they dig, the more evidence they find that the fund's money isn't being used to support the impoverished-it's going somewhere much more sinister. When someone close to him disappears and the FBI starts breathing down his neck, Grove knows he has to figure out who's pulling all the strings before the shadowy figure who will stop at nothing to keep the fund a secret gets to him.

Author : Lyndsay Faye
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425261255

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The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye Pdf

New York City, 1845. Timothy Wilde, a 27-year-old Irish immigrant, joins the newly formed NYPD and investigates an infanticide and the body of a 12-year-old Irish boy whose spleen has been removed.

Author : Norb Vonnegut
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429931410

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Top Producer by Norb Vonnegut Pdf

In a world that moves as fast as finance does, top producers have to think three steps ahead and make snap decisions. Theirs is a blurred version of reality, one that conceals moves as much as it rewards the bold ones. All too easily, scams can be disguised as success; plotting can be mistaken for killer instincts. And as Grove O'Rourke finds out, "Nothing obscures vulnerability like success. Nothing that is, except for friendships." But this book isn't about stocks and bonds—it's about people. About Grove O'Rourke, top producer at the investment firm of Sachs, Kidder, and Carnegie, and about his best friend, Charlie Kelemen, whose spectacular murder is carried out in front of hundreds of horrified party-goers at the opening of the novel. It's about Charlie's widow, who comes to Grove for help after her husband's death, even though she's hiding a dark secret. And it's about how money—vast sums of money—can cover up even the most glaring imper fections in relationships, and fool everyone. Well, almost everyone. With the ease of someone who has lived in the world of top producers, NorbVonnegut has crafted a sharp, dark thriller that will make you think—and then double-check your investments. Don't miss Norb Vonnegut's latest Grove O'Rourke thriller, The Trust.

Author : Ralf Ellis
Publisher : Edfu Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781905815289

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K2, Quest of the Gods by Ralf Ellis Pdf

*** The Great Pyramid in the Himalaya *** In 'Thoth, Architect of the Universe' Ralf discovered evidence for megalithic maps. But if these megalithic maps are to be of any use in a quest for the mythical Hall of Records, then they need to be a little more detailed than a simple representation of continents. Luckily, the shaft angles inside the Great Pyramid can refine these maps down to just a few tens of meters. And so Ralf embarked on a long trek into the high Himalaya, to see what lay at the heart of the Giza map. Strangely enough, what he found there was a giant snow-white pyramid, aligned with the cardinal points, with a causeway aligned at 14º from its base - exactly the same as the Great Pyramid itself. Sequel to "Thoth, Architect of the Universe". v3.6

Author : Norman Mailer
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812986068

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Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer Pdf

Norman Mailer’s dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost era: the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover, and victim; and the gods and mortals that surround them in intimate and telepathic communion. Mailer’s reincarnated protagonist is carried through the exquisite gardens of the royal harem, along the majestic flow of the Nile, and into the terrifying clash of battle. An extraordinary work of inventiveness, Ancient Evenings lives on in the mind long after the last page has been turned. Praise for Ancient Evenings “Astounding, beautifully written . . . a leap of imagination that crosses three millennia to Pharaonic Egypt.”—USA Today “Mailer makes a miraculous present out of age-deep memories, bringing to life the rhythms, the images, the sensuousness of a lost time.”—The New York Times “Mailer’s Egypt is a haunting and magical place. . . . The reader wallows in the scope, depth, the sheer magnitude and—yes—the fertility of his imagination.”—The Washington Post Book World “An enormous pyramid of a novel [reminiscent of] Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and Carlos Fuentes’s Terra Nostra.”—Los Angeles Herald Examiner Praise for Norman Mailer “[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.”—The New York Times “A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.”—The New Yorker “Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.”—The Washington Post “A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.”—Life “Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.”—The New York Review of Books “The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.”—Chicago Tribune “Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.”—The Cincinnati Post

Author : Teejay LeCapois
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fantasy
ISBN : 9781105662065

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The Gods of Dahomey by Teejay LeCapois Pdf

Author : Kae Tempest
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781447257691

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Brand New Ancients by Kae Tempest Pdf

Kae Tempest is one of the most exciting and innovative performers to have emerged in spoken-word poetry in many years; their dramatic poem Brand New Ancients won the prestigious Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. Tempest’s wholly unique blend of street poetry, rap and storytelling – combined with the spellbinding delivery of an open-air revivalist – has won them legions of followers all over the UK. Tempest's remarkable stage presence is wholly audible in this poem, a spoken story written to be told with live music. Brand New Ancients is the tale of two families and their intertwining lives, set against the background of the city and braided with classical myth. Here, Tempest shows how the old myths still live on in our everyday acts of violence, bravery, sacrifice and love – and that our lives make tales no less dramatic and powerful than those of the old gods.

Author : English poets
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1790
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555002797

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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson by English poets Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1779
Category : English poetry
ISBN : NYPL:33433067299184

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The Works of the English Poets: Hughes by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Christopher Bram
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061857461

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Gods and Monsters by Christopher Bram Pdf

Previously titled Father of Frankenstein, this acclaimed novel was the basis for the 1998 film starring Sir Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, and Brendan Fraser. It journeys back to 1957 Los Angeles, where James Whale, the once-famous director of such classics as Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, is living in retirement, haunted by his past. Rescuing him from his too-vivid imagination is his gardener, a handsome ex-marine. The friendship between these two very different men is sometimes tentative, sometimes touching, often dangerous—and always captivating. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Author : Robert Denis Whittle
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847533104

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Firewood of the Gods by Robert Denis Whittle Pdf

A powerful family saga set in Colonial Australia where the reader is thrust into a world ruled by Betrayal, Greed, Lust and Revenge. This is a time of abduction, slavery and where murder by poisoning is readily accepted as suicide. The genesis of this gripping tale is when Captain Richard Warre steals an ancient Spanish Chart of King Solomon's mines in the Solomon islands.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1779
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015058677348

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The Works of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : John Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1779
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF990981197

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The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson by John Hughes Pdf