Ben Lieberman
Auteur de Odd Jobs
A propos de l'auteur
Ben Lieberman, Department of Social Science, Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts
Crédit image: Ben Lieberman - Author of "Odd Jobs"
Œuvres de Ben Lieberman
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Chappaqua, New York, USA
- Professions
- Bond Trader
Writer - Courte biographie
- BEN LIEBERMAN is a bond trader who earned a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Maryland and then further developed his writing skills through courses at Columbia University, NYU and writers workshops. ODD JOBS earned Lieberman the Tommy Award from Writers News Weekly. He lives in Chappaqua, N.Y. with his wife and three children.
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Critiques
Odd Jobs par Ben Lieberman
I felt this was a slow read until the last couple of chapters. I understand how the writer was trying to set everything up in the first half of the book but I felt it jumped around and didn't seem to transition smoothly. It was not one of my favorite crime books but it was readable.
Thinking of selling your life insurance policy? Read The Carnage Account by Ben Lieberman before you do.
Rory Cage is a very successful Wall Street hedge fund manager with piles of cash and his own NBA team. He also has a secret. He buys up life insurance policies for pennies on the dollar. When his hedge fund needs a boost in earnings, the life insurance policies pay off – whether the insured is ready to die or not.
Greed and the power that being rich offers bring out Cage’s sociopathic tendencies and the bodies pile up. Mix in a love interest (his current PR chief Dawn Knight) and her former boyfriend (former Navy SEAL and now ER doc) Clay Harbor and you have an action-packed novel that will keep you engaged from start to finish. It may also give you second thoughts about selling that life insurance policy you think you no longer need.
The author, drawing on his own experiences working for JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch, Royal Bank of Canada, and Lehman Brothers during the 2008 financial meltdown, weaves enough authenticity into The Carnage Account that you may wonder if you’re reading fiction or a thinly veiled account of what he may have seen in his prior life working for Wall Street. And, if you doubt that Wall Street buys up life insurance policies just like it buys stocks and bonds, at the end of the book Mr. Lieberman kindly offers to send readers to a page on his website with links to a BusinessWeek article on ‘death bonds’ and to other sources that show you just how real The Carnage Account could be.
I am willing to forgive Mr. Lieberman’s tendency to have Cage pay much more than the real life settlement industry would pay for a life insurance policy. After all, Rory Cage wasn’t just investing in life insurance policies; he was also satisfying his need to decide who gets to die so that he can make those quarterly earnings that Wall Street is so keen on.
This review is based on a copy of the book provided by the publisher.
Full review at walterbristow.com
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Rory Cage is a very successful Wall Street hedge fund manager with piles of cash and his own NBA team. He also has a secret. He buys up life insurance policies for pennies on the dollar. When his hedge fund needs a boost in earnings, the life insurance policies pay off – whether the insured is ready to die or not.
Greed and the power that being rich offers bring out Cage’s sociopathic tendencies and the bodies pile up. Mix in a love interest (his current PR chief Dawn Knight) and her former boyfriend (former Navy SEAL and now ER doc) Clay Harbor and you have an action-packed novel that will keep you engaged from start to finish. It may also give you second thoughts about selling that life insurance policy you think you no longer need.
The author, drawing on his own experiences working for JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch, Royal Bank of Canada, and Lehman Brothers during the 2008 financial meltdown, weaves enough authenticity into The Carnage Account that you may wonder if you’re reading fiction or a thinly veiled account of what he may have seen in his prior life working for Wall Street. And, if you doubt that Wall Street buys up life insurance policies just like it buys stocks and bonds, at the end of the book Mr. Lieberman kindly offers to send readers to a page on his website with links to a BusinessWeek article on ‘death bonds’ and to other sources that show you just how real The Carnage Account could be.
I am willing to forgive Mr. Lieberman’s tendency to have Cage pay much more than the real life settlement industry would pay for a life insurance policy. After all, Rory Cage wasn’t just investing in life insurance policies; he was also satisfying his need to decide who gets to die so that he can make those quarterly earnings that Wall Street is so keen on.
This review is based on a copy of the book provided by the publisher.
Full review at walterbristow.com
… (plus d'informations)
this book started off slow and i almost stopped reading it at the beginning then mid beginning it picked up it really picked up i found i didnt want to put it down. its a really twisted tale of revenge at its finest.
finally gave ben's book a shot...sounded like ben narrating...character was college kid avenging the death of his dad by taking on the mob....gets job in meat factory and starts up bookie/drug operation to finance the sting....a bunch of characters were neighborhood peeps--debby brooks, andy lyss, richard benett (did a bond trade with us!!)
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 58
- Popularité
- #284,346
- Évaluation
- 3.1
- Critiques
- 18
- ISBN
- 10
