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Ghosts of Manhattan

Ghosts of Manhattan Hardcover - 2012

by Brunt, Douglas

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Touchstone Books, 2012. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Ghosts of Manhattan
  • Author Brunt, Douglas
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Third Printing
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 275
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Touchstone Books, New York
  • Date 2012
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G1451672594I3N00
  • ISBN 9781451672596 / 1451672594
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.73 x 5.8 x 1.21 in (22.17 x 14.73 x 3.07 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Financial crises, Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012004367
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

A wryly comic, first-person debut novel offering a withering view of life on Wall Street from the perspective of an unhappy insider who is too hooked on the money to find a way out, even as his career is ruining his marriage and corroding his soul.

It’s 2005. Nick Farmer is a thirty-five-year-old bond trader with Bear Stearns clearing seven figures a year. The novelty of a work-related nightlife centering on liquor, hookers, and cocaine has long since worn thin, though Nick remains keenly addicted to his annual bonus. But the lifestyle is taking a toll on his marriage and on him.

When a nerdy analyst approaches him with apocalyptic prognostications of where Bear’s high-flying mortgage-backed securities trading may lead, Nick is presented with the kind of ethical dilemma he’s spent a lifetime avoiding. Throw in a hot financial journalist who seems to be more interested in him than in the percolating financial armageddon and the prospect that his own wife may have found a new romantic interest of her own, and you have the recipe for Nick’s personal and professional implosion.

By turns hilarious and harrowing, Ghosts of Manhattan follows a winning but flawed character as he struggles to find the right path in a complicated urban heart of darkness.

Media reviews

With his noir-ish debut novel, former broker (and spouse of Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly) Brunt delves not just into the mechanics of the financial crash, but also the mindset that created the explosive state of affairs. A smart shot at the absurdity of Wall Street and the long fall that brought us all down.