ISBN: 0-88739-468-X
214 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 12/2002
Paperback Original
Price: $14.95
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Blizzard of Money
Max Isaacman
Ever since his wife died a few years ago, financial advisor Nick Larson can't get his life together. His rent's due and he's about broke; his lover Linda is duty-bound to her stroke-victim husband. Painting is about the only thing that makes sense to him, but he can't make a living at that. So Nick takes on Nugget Petroleum as a client, and drives up the market price, using all his Wall Street savvy. But things about Nugget bother him, and he finally learns there's good reason to be bothered.
Trouble is Nick's human, and can't stomach it anymore. He sees it's all stacked against him, and Wall Street will rip off his face or worse if he doesn't play the game. With Willie and Lenny Zellon and Hammer and all the others ready to pounce, he takes action. Nick just never saw the price he has to pay.
Review: "Isaacman captures the fraud of his time, from the junk bond scandals of the 1980's to the 'Martha Stewart cake walk' of the new millennium. The film, Wall Street, so successful years ago, now has a sequel in Blizzard of Money.
-James B. Freydberg, Tony Award winning producer and former investment banker.
"A curious blend of real Wall Street and real drama. Could not put it down. Could not."
-Gerald W. Abrams, Executive producer of "Gisella Perl" (Showtime), "Nuremberg" (TNT), and "Black & Blue" (CBS).
"Blizzard of Money is a riveting suspense novel about Wall Street skullduggery, and in today's scandal-a-minute world, it couldn't be more timely. More than a first-rate story teller, Max Isaacman goes beneath the topical taffy-pull of greed versus regulation and gets at the relevance of core human values like love, loyalty, self-respect, honor and responsibility-life's ultimate tradeoffs for monetary gratification. Blizzard of Money is a page-turner with implications profound and pertinent. And there's an extra bonus: Engrossed in a fast-moving plot, we get a painless education in how markets work, from an author who knows the subject first-hand. I loved this book."
-John Downes, co-author of the best selling books Beating the Dow and Barron's Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms.
Bio: MAX ISAACMAN is an investment advisor and was a columnist at the San Francisco Examiner and other publications. For a spell he taught yoga in North Beach in San Francisco, and dances Argentine Tango wherever and whenever he can. Among his appearances are CBS MarketWatch and Bloomberg, and his published investment books include How to Be an Index Investor and The Nasdaq Investor.
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