Starbucks coffee shops and dry cleaners aside, New York City is dominated by the world of finance. Wall Street funds the survival of this great metropolis, and it's no surprise that a significant number of its residents and local politicians have careers tethered to that historic money-making district. Lawrence Light knows well the city's testosterone-fueled machinations, and once again brings its money-rules-all influence to bear in his second Karen Glick novel, Fear & Greed. Like its predecessor (Too Rich to Live, 2005), this newest novel is a fast-paced, riveting tour de force of money and politics, and Glick is that best kind of journalist: she pursues the story until the bitter -- and in this case, blockbuster -- end.
This novel's main premise is the creation of a software program named Goldring, which can pick winning stocks. It promises fabulous wealth to anyone who owns it. The software was created by three sisters, who intended to keep it secret and for their use only. Linda Reiner is a "glamorous stockbroker"; her older sister, Ginny, is a Columbia University mathematician and professor; and younger sister Flo is a computer geek. These siblings store the only copy of their innovative program on a laptop computer embossed with a gold ring logo, and use it to make themselves rich. But their secret is not so secret, after all ("There are no secrets on Wall Street" remarks one character). As fate would have it, the laptop is stolen one night, and one of the sisters is killed in the process.
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