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Title: Top Producer
Author/website: Norb Vonnegut
342 pages
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Publication date: September ’09
Genre: Financial thriller
Would I recommend it: DNF’d @ pg. 164 of 342
Journal notes: Way too much Wall Street speak for me; mind numbing.

Ripples from the bizarre murder of Charlie Kelemen, wealthy hedge fund operator, quickly reach his best friend, Grove O’Rourke. A top producer at the boutique investment bank Sachs, Kidder and Carnegie, O’Rourke tries to help Kelemen’s widow sort out some financial questions. This process leads him deeper and deeper into a labyrinth of deceit. As fallout from Charlie’s death and dealings start to taint O’Rourke, the sharks, inside and outside his own firm, smell blood and begin to circle. O’Rourke won’t go down without a fight, and not all the blood in the water will be his.

(Top Producer was provided to me by Anne of Minotaur Books. I was not paid and donated this book to my local library )