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Spiegelman is the Shamus Award-winning author of Black Maps (Knopf, 2003), Death's Little Helpers (Knopf, 2005), and Red Cat (Knopf, 2007), which feature private detective and Wall Street refugee John March. Mr. Spiegelman is a twenty-year veteran of the financial services and software industries, and has worked with banks, brokerage houses and central banks in major markets.

John Burdett, Peter Blauner, Henry Blodget and others take noir to The Street.

Contents

Introduction Part I: Downtown....................21
Stephen Rhodes 40 Broad Street At the Top of His Game....................49
Twist Phelan 1 North End Avenue A Trader's Lot....................66
Tim Broderick 40 Wall Street Feeding Frenzy....................85
Jim Fusilli 23 Wall Street A Terrorizing Demonstration....................104
David Noonan 85 Exchange Place Town Car Part II: uptown....................119
Richard Aleas Times Square The Quant....................141
Lawrence Light 257 W. 36th Street Make Me Rich....................159
James Hime 200 Park Avenue Rough Justice....................186
Peter Blauner 1313 Avenue of the Americas The Consultant Part III: Main Street....................207
Mark Haskell Smith Los Angeles, California The Day Trader in the Trunk of Cleto's Car....................220
Peter Spiegelman Lethe, South Dakota Five Days at the Sunset....................246
Megan Abbott 110 W. 139th Street Today We Hit....................260
Jason Starr Hoboken, New Jersey The Basher Part Iv: Global markets....................273
John Burdett Bangkok, Thailand The Enlightenment of Magnus McKay....................302
Henry Blodget Shanghai, China Bonus Season....................328
Lauren Sanders Tel Aviv, Israel Everything I'm Not....................357
Reed Farrel Coleman Tegucigalpa, Honduras Due Diligence....................384
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