Bang for the $:
Financial & Corporate Thrillers

Regan C. Ashbaugh. In the Red. Pocket, 1999.
When the top executives at the multi-billion-dollar investment firm of Morson-Grayhead are stalked by a killer who brutally murders their wives and burns their homes to the ground, it is up to Chief Fire Marshal Jake Ferguson must learn the ins and outs of Wall Street to help identify and hunt down the homicidal arsonist.

T. Davis Bunn. Drummer in the Dark. Doubleday, 2001.
Former high-tech guru Wynn Bryant is tapped by his brother-in-law, the governor of Florida, to replace a Congressman felled by stroke, with the instructions that he must vote against the upcoming Jubilee Amendment, a bill that would relieve Third World countries of their financial debts to the US. At the same time, P.I. Jackie Havilland is approached by Esther Hutchings, the wife of the stricken politician to find out who is behind the smear campaign of her husband, and make sure the Jubilee Amendment is passed. Both Wynn and Jackie come to the conclusion that a dangerous global conspiracy is afoot.

Michael Culp. Conflicted. MecoxBay, 2003.
David Meadows, the Director of Research at one of Wall Street's largest brokerage firms, has come concerns about the special assignment given to him from his CEO that will generate, if he succeeds, a $20-million payday.

Linda Davies. Nest of Vipers. Doubleday, 1995.
Successful foreign-exchange trader Sarah Jensen goes undercover at Inter-Continental Bank to expose a highly sophisticated fraud in the global money market headed by a Mafia drug lord named Dante Scarpirato.

Paul Erdman. The Set-Up. St. Martin’s, 1997.
Charlie Black, former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, lands in Basel to represent the U.S. at the monthly meeting of national bank leaders at the Bank for International Settlements and is inexplicably arrested, and imprisoned on fraud charges. Desperate to clear his name, Charlie his wife agree to take part in an elaborate escape scheme, unwittingly launching the couple into the midst of those who had framed him. By the same author: The Billion Dollar Sure Thing (1973), The Silver Bears (1974), The Crash of 79 (1976), The Panic of 89 (1986), The Palace (1988).

Joseph Finder. Company Man. St. Martin’s, 2005.
After circumstances force a massive layoff at his company, corporate CEO Nick Conover finds himself stalked by a faceless menace. But his enemies don’t realize how hard he’ll fight to save his company and nobody knows how far he’ll go to protect his family.

Stephen Frey. The Chairman. Ballantine, 2005.
Taking over the helm of Everest Capital, powerful Manhattan-based private equity, after the death of its chairman, rising star Christian Gillette becomes the target of corporate sabotage and the relentless assassination attempts of an unknown enemy. By the same author: The Vulture Fund (1996), The Inner Sanctum (1997), The Insider (1999), Trust Fund (2002), The Day Trader (2002), Silent Partner (2003), Shadow Account (2004), The Power Broker (2006), The Protégé (2006), The Successor (2007).

Leslie Glass. For Love and Money. Ballantine, 2004.
Stockbroker Annie Custer gets caught between feuding parties when she does what seems like a simple favor and ends up being suspected of stealing a quarter of a million dollars' worth of stock certificates. Things go downhill from here.

Lee Gruenfeld. The Street. Doubleday, 2001.
Tired of being unappreciated and underpaid, James Vincent Hanley, a stockbroker specializing in Internet start-ups decides to “create” the perfect dot.com company. Soon, Artemis-5, a company with no assets, no product to sell, and a bogus board of directors, becomes the hottest thing in town. But Jubal Thurgren of the SEC suspects Artemis-5 isn’t all it’s purported to be, triggering a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse.

David Liss. A Conspiracy of Paper. RH, 2000.
In 18th-century London, Benjamin Weaver travels through the criminal underworld and the underbelly of London's financial markets to investigate the mysterious death of his estranged father.

Brad Meltzer. The Millionaires. Warner, 2002.
Charlie and Oliver Caruso, brothers employed at Greene & Greene, a private bank so exclusive there’s a $2,000,000 minimum to be a client, conspire to take $3,000,000 from an abandoned account. But they get more than they bargained for when a friend is found dead and other interested parties, including a female P.I., the Secret Service, and assorted bad guys, turn up the heat.

Ken Morris. Man in the Middle. Bancroft, 2003.
After Peter Neil joins the firm of Stenman Partners, he is swept up in the glamour and excitement of high-stakes hedge trading. But soon Peter comes to believe that both his mother’s death and a recent massacre at the San Diego securities company, but the discovery of shady dealings and mysterious deaths finds Peter in danger and with the help of SEC investigator Oliver Dawson, they plan to bring down the firm. By the same author: The Deadly Trade (2004).

Christopher Reich. The Devil’s Banker. Dell, 2004.
Forensic accountant Adam Chapel’s first field case is a big one: foiling a terrorist plot of unprecedented proportions against the United States by following the money trail to a shadowy organization headed by a criminal mastermind. By the same author: The First Billion (2002); Numbered Account (1998).

Michael Ridpath. The Market Maker. Penguin, 1999.
When rookie London stock trader Nick Elliot begins to investigate some shady-looking dealings of a prestigious brokerage firm, its head honcho, Ricardo Ross, will do anything to keep his business private. By the same author: Free to Trade (1994).

Philip Rosenberg. House of Lords. HarCol, 2002.
When his daughter and some of her friends get mixed up in a potentially high-profile scandal, successful investment banker Jeffrey Blaine is helped by gangster Chet Fiore who can make it all go away in exchange for his cooperation in a money-laundering scheme. Blaine quickly learns he has made a deal with the devil

Michael M. Thomas. Baker’s Dozen. FSG, 1996.
PR whiz Lucy Preston begins to suspect that something isn’t quite right about the acquisition of BEECO by the multibillion-dollar corporation she works for. Her fears become reality when people closely associated with to the merger begin to die. By the same author: The Ropespinner Conspiracy (1987).

Peter Spiegelman. Black Maps. Knopf, 2003.
NYC P.I. John March, who has been both a banker and a rural deputy sheriff, takes the case of Rick Pierro, a successful investment banker being threatened with by blackmail, even though it brings him back to a cut-throat world he left behind and that cost him so much.

James Twining. The Double Eagle. HarCol, 2005.
When one of only a few surviving double eagle coins is discovered in the belly of a murdered priest, Tim Kirk, a former CIA agent now making his living as an international jewel thief is forced to work with a an ambitious FBI agent whose career has been overshadowed by a fatal error of judgment, to clear his name.

Christopher Wakling. The Immortal Part. Riverhead, 2003.
When Lewis Penn, a young lawyer with a prestigious London firm, misplaces a file while sitting in on a meeting for his boss on a deal for a Ukrainian company, he rushes back and mistakenly takes a file containing sensitive information-potentially devastating to the Ukrainians if it becomes public, and career-ending for Lewis if his mistake is revealed. As he takes desperate measures to secretly undo his misstep, his calculated deceptions drags him into deeper trouble.

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