Ghosts of Manhattan by Douglas Brunt

Description

It’s 2005. Nick Farmer is a thirty-five-year-old bond trader with undergo Stearns clearing seven figures a year. the novelty of a piece-similar eveninglife middleing on liquor, hookers, and cocaine has lengthy since worn skinny, though Nick continues to be keenly addicted to his annual bonus. but the way of life is taking a toll on his marriage and on him.

while a nerdy analyst approaches him with apocalyptic prognostications of the place undergo’s top-flying loan-sponsored securities buying and selling might lead, Nick is presented with the type of ethical catch 22 situation he’s spent a life-time avoidentificationing. Throw in a hot monetary journalist who seems to be more excited about him than in the percolating monetary armageddon and the prospect that his own wife could have found a brand new romantic passion of her own, and you have got the recipe for Nick’s private and professional implosion.

by means of turns hilarious and harrowing, Ghosts of ny follows a successful however unsuitable persona as he struggles to seek out the right trail in an advanced city middle of darkness.