The Last Trade

Name: The Last Trade
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: James Conway
ISBN: 9781609989002

Author: James Conway

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 10 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 06/14/2012

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

Drew Havens made a killing for the Rising Fund, which, thanks to his prognostications, was the only hedge operation to anticipate and capitalize on the mortgage crisis of 2008. For Havens, it’s always been about the numbers. He sees things others can’t, from the collapse of the American real estate market to the multibillion-dollar rise of his ruthless and charismatic boss. Havens is now rich beyond his dreams, but his work at the Rising Fund has cost him his marriage. And now it may cost him his life. It starts with the brutal murder of his young protégé and, over the course of six explosive days, six other brokers around the world, each killed after executing a trade linked to the Rising Fund. As the violence escalates from South Africa to São Paulo, Hong Kong to Berlin, Havens frantically tries to construct a model that will reveal the catastrophic event that only he can see coming—and confirm that his boss and the Rising Fund are at the center of it. The Last Trade is a relentlessly entertaining, adrenaline-fueled thriller about the forces that shape our culture—and a lone man desperate to achieve redemption.

About Peter Berkrot

Peter Berkrot, a forty-year veteran of stage and screen, has voiced over 450 audiobook titles, winning Earphones Awards, a 2012 Audie Award nomination, and a 2016 Audie Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ian

Interesting premise, parts of it were a lot of fun. Characters were too simplistic by and large, and it is clear that the author is still figuring out his way as a novelist, but still an engaging read if you like finance and live in New York (the book is set in NYC and focuses heavily on the local g......more

Goodreads review by Neil

It took me a while to get around to writing this review, and I feel as though I should apologize although I'm not sure to whom. I've enjoyed the work that James Othmer wrote under his own name, but I was a little hesitant about this one. Mass market thrillers aren't normally my bag, and books (fictio......more

Goodreads review by Onur

James Conway daha önce başka türlerde kitapları yayınlanmış olan James Othmer'in farklı bir tür olarak yazdığı gerilim romanında ilk kez kullandığı bir takma ad. Kitap 2008 küresel krizinden olağanüstü para kazanmış bir fonun, küresel ölçekte bulaştığı işlerin gerilim dolu hikayesini anlatırken, hem......more

Goodreads review by Patty

An excellent, suspensful thriller. If you like conspiracies and international plots, this one is for you! It even has high flying kicks, although it doesn't have quite enough chase scenes, I'm sure they'll fix that when they make a movie version. :)......more

Goodreads review by Shannon

This felt like an eighties thriller with cell phones. For some reason I like old feeling mysteries, but like my thrillers fresh.......more

Quotes

“The Last Trade is an instant classic of the genre, a thriller you open on the runway and don’t put down until you’ve crossed quite a few time zones.”
Seth Godin, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Weird

“[An] impressive first thriller…Sobieski [is] the financial world equivalent of Lisbeth Salander…Offers a compulsively readable look into the arcane world of high finance.”
Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Conway, himself a hedge-fund manager, writes under a pseudonym for protection, and his experience lends an authenticity to the story…[and] generate[s] considerable suspense to go with the financial detail.”
Booklist

“Fascinating…Credit debut author Conway…for a premise that layers the threat of international terrorism onto the world’s considerable anxiety over a global economic collapse.” Kirkus Reviews

“The Last Trade is an intricately woven thriller of our time, laced with the menacing effects of uncontrolled globalization, tumultuous financial markets, and destabilized technology, simultaneously gone awry with harrowing consequences.”
Pip Coburn, author of The Change Function