Norb Vonnegut, Fiction and Financial Commentary

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I’m a novelist and a blogger. But it wasn’t always that way. Before writing financial thrillers, I built a career on Wall Street in private wealth management. Full disclosure: I find the people of Wall Street, their quirks and their edgy sense of humor, every bit as interesting as the securities they invent. After evaluating investments for two decades, I traded day-to-day money management for writing about people in the trenches of finance. Brokers. Traders. Sales Assistants.

TOP PRODUCER

Top Producer, a Wall Street thriller  by Norb Vonnegut
St. Martin's Press, 2009

Wall Street, deals change, friends become enemies, enemies become friends—and you just might get fed to the sharks.

In a world that moves as fast as finance, top producers think three steps ahead and make snap decisions. Theirs is a blurred version of reality, one that conceals motives or rewards bold moves. All too easily, scams can be disguised as success; plotting can be mistaken for killer instincts...  (more)

THE GOLD STANDARD FOR FINANCIAL THRILLERS"
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)Top Producer Publishers Weekly star review

Begins where LIAR’S POKER and THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES left off
- Brent Ghelfi, author of The Venona Cable

THE GODS OF GREENWICH

The Gods of Greenwich by Norb Vonnegut
St. Martin's Press, 2011

Jimmy Cusack is the tough kid from a blue-collar neighborhood who made good on Wall Street. Well, almost. After a sterling start to his career, things have soured. His hedge fund collapsed. The bank is foreclosing on his condominium. And his wife is three months pregnant. That’s the good news. When Cusack takes a “must-have” job with LS Capital, a fund impervious to capital market woes, his real troubles begin. Both Cusack and his wife find their lives in jeopardy as they uncover grim secrets that...  (more)

In Bookstores Spring 2011!

Look for Top Producer in paperback,  Fall 2010. In print in eight languages.
Top Producer by Norb Vonnegut in Dutch


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