Didn’t like this. Got about 40% thru and didn’t like any of the characters so stopped (since it was due at the library anyway). April 2018

Four years after his wife dies, banker Michael Cantella's life falls apart showing that things are not how he thought. I thought the suspense dragged on a. It long. ( )

Investment banker Michael Cantella seems to have it all with a beautiful wife and a fantastic career. The only dark spot is the sudden disappearance of his first wife, wife of less than one day, four years ago. Then on his 35 birthday, all his investment accounts suddenly show zero balances. In rapid succession, his investment firm is on the brink of bankruptcy, his wife is asking for a divorce, the FBI investigating him, and he is receiving threatening text messages. Michael is desperate to clear his name, and clues keep leading him back to his first wife, Ivy. Filled with financial details and firmly rooted in the complexities and corruptions of the world of investment banking, Grippando ratchets up the intensity as he paints a compelling portrait of a man whose world is crumbling around him. ( )

I really enjoyed this book. It combined finance with adventure and those are two things that normally don't combine. Fortunately in fiction anything can happen---and in this book, it does. Some of the criticisms of the book are that events get a mite too unlikely---and that's true, but I really enjoyed the book anyway. Grippando's writing is engaging enough that I was quite willing to suspend disbelief when the plot really took off. ( )

This was a good suspense book about Wall street and the sub prime mortgage crisis. There are many twists and turns in this book to keep you reading. ( )