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Summary: A Really Fine Read!!!
Review: If you like Wall Street and financial intrigue, you will love this book. The real beauty of it, however, is that you don't need to be a stock broker or lawyer to follow the story. Thrills galore!
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: It's nice to read a book written by someone who knows what they're talking about. Enjoyed this book from beginning to end. It never lagged anywhere. Action packed and full of thrills.
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Summary: THE VELOCITY OF MONEY is a timely page-turner
Review: Just read today's headlines. The market is a rollercoaster and people are beginning to fear a repeat of the crash of October '87. That's only part of what makes author Stephen Rhodes's book THE VELOCITY OF MONEY an incredibly insightful and timely thriller based in the world of Wall Streer traders.But what struck me instantly about this book was Rhodes's writing--some of the best dialogue I can remember reading. And his characters are incredible. By novel's end, I was practically cheering our young hero Rick Hansen on out loud. I was that caught up in the action. THE VELOCITY OF MONEY is also remarkably intelligent. It challenges readers to look at the stock market in a new light. That's because Rhodes is a Wall Street insider, and he uses his knowledge to craft a sophisticated and compelling story unlike any you've read before.
If you like thrillers loaded with twists and turns, you'll love THE VELOCITY OF MONEY by Stephen Rhodes.
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Summary: Predictable but well paced
Review: The story makes great reading for technophobes, pursuing the idea that a shady team of master criminals could sway the stock markets in their favour via computer systems. The book is well paced but the conclusion is so obvious that the tension fails to build. The book, like so many of Crichton's recent offerings, reads more like a script than a book. Nonetheless, good beack/travel material.
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Summary: My kind of book!
Review: The thing I liked most about this book is that it was hard to put down and I couldn't wait to get back to it. It held my interest from the first to the last page. Your character Rick rang so real to me I thought I was reading about my son. All of us in the market fear your plot. Great book. I'm a fan now. By the way, Fern Michaels is the one who recommended I read this book. Sharon Yohey
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Summary: Recommended for all Wall Streeters
Review: The villain is modeled on Marc Rich; coincidentally I read it and started corresponding with the author just a week before Clinton pardoned Rich. A great anthropological study of the trading subsculture at the end of the 20th century. Very good, and especially great if you're an in-house counsel at a major house who works with derivatives.
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Summary: Recommended for all Wall Streeters
Review: The villain is modeled on Marc Rich; coincidentally I read it and started corresponding with the author just a week before Clinton pardoned Rich. A great anthropological study of the trading subsculture at the end of the 20th century. Very good, and especially great if you're an in-house counsel at a major house who works with derivatives.
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Summary: Predictable but well paced
Review: This book is a wonderful read from beginning to end...enjoyed it immensely.
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Summary: Super duper book!
Review: This book is a wonderful read from beginning to end...enjoyed it immensely.
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Summary: It couldn't be this easy--could it?
Review: This book is enough to make even the most risk-taking, microcap, emerging-markets, junk-debt investor stuff his cash under the mattress. An all-too-plausible scheme to crash the market by program-trading and then collecting the proceeds with a massive option bet. The story is propelled by the usual cloke-and-dagger, regular-guy-hero-smells-a-rat narrative. But it moves along briskly and never gets sufficiently stupid to distract you from the financial machinations that are the guts of the plot. Significantly more intelligent than the average thriller.
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