Mortal Bonds, Michael Sears
Mortal Bonds, Michael Sears
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Mortal Bonds

Author: Michael Sears

Narrator: John Bedford Lloyd

Unabridged: 11 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 10/01/2013

Synopsis

Ex-Wall Street trader, ex-con, and devoted father to an autistic son, Jason Stafford first appeared in Black Fridays, “one of the year’s finest crime debuts” (Booklist). Now, in Mortal Bonds, he goes to work for the wealthy family of a financial criminal…
 
William von Becker’s multibillion-dollar fund was limited to only the luckiest investors. Or so they thought.
 
After the house of cards collapses and the disgraced von Becker commits suicide in prison, his family asks Jason Stafford to find out where the money is—and who is targeting them with attempted kidnappings. There are plenty of angry suspects to take a look at. But with roughly three billion of von Becker’s ill-gotten dollars floating around somewhere, there are other interested parties as well. They’re determined. They’re powerful. And they’re not nearly as polite as the Feds…

About The Author

Michael Sears, the author of the Jason Stafford novels Black Fridays and Mortal Bonds, spent more than twenty years on Wall Street, rising to become the managing director in the bond trading and underwriting divisions of Paine Webber and, later, Jefferies & Company, before leaving the business in 2005.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Skip on August 30, 2014

3.75 stars. After his introduction as a parolee in Black Friday, Jason Stafford has found a new career as a financial consultant, helping to ferret out criminal activity in the financial world. He is hired by the family of a dead patriarch, with a Ponzi scheme hedge fund (e.g., Bernie Madoff.) As in......more

Goodreads review by Kristin on October 30, 2013

Jason Stafford is back as an ex-con inside trader with an autistic son and a heart of gold. He is hired by the family of a man who was convicted of running a ponzi scheme, who has just died in prison. I struggle to understand the finer nuances of the financial world Jason Stafford runs in, but I love......more

Goodreads review by Art on March 13, 2016

I am totally captivated by the Jason Stafford financial thriller series. Book two may be even better than the first entry. Stafford, a former BSD trader who spent time in prison for financial wrong-doing, is an interesting character on his own. But his posse of supporting characters is rich -- especi......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on April 24, 2017

I loved this book. I read it in one sitting. It's a financial thriller. Great plot, one that I could follow even though I'm not a financial wiz. Many well-defined characters. Wonderful descriptions of settings/scenes so that I could visualize the people and the places. The author writes very well an......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on June 22, 2022

This is Book 2 in the Jason Stanford series and is about financial crime. Jason is on the search for a very large amount of money and bonds and many people want it when he finds it. He manages to not only make money for himself, keep his son safe, but gets the FBI on his side.......more

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Praise for Mortal Bonds

“Stafford is a cool, edgy character.”—John Sandford

“A hero I'm still thinking about days afterward.”—Tess Gerritsen

“A twisty tale of greed…Grade: A.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Raves for Black Fridays
Winner of the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel
Nominated for the Edgar®, Anthony, International Thriller Writers’, and Barry Best First Novel Awards
 
“[An] exciting and compelling Wall Street thriller [with] an insider's jaded wit.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Definitely worth the investment.”—The Associated Press

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