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Norb Vonnegut

Top Producer

US Release Date, 2009

Grove O’Rourke is a Wall Street advisor with a problem.  He’s helping Sam Kelemen sort out her finances, when everything goes wrong.  The police investigate his links to a bizarre murder.  His colleagues backstab him at the office.  Two hoods try to beat him with a Harley chain.  And his boss orders him to take a “leave of absence,” industry jargon for “You’re fired.”  Suddenly, the rocky markets are the least of Grove’s worries.

Wall Street's allegiances are ephemeral. Deals change. Friends become enemies, and enemies become friends. Our coalitions are convenient. Our genealogical roots all trace back to Brutus.
Grove O'Rourke on Wall Street's people.

Welcome to my Fiction

You now have a feel for Top Producer.  I am a first time author with a two-book contract from St. Martin’s Press.  My hope is that you will find a new voice in Top Producer.  Sure, this novel is a mystery.  And like many mysteries, somebody gets whacked.  But I’ve set the action to the background of Wall Street, and my characters are nothing if not irreverent.   

There’s a bond trader named Radio Ray, so named because Radio is short for radioactive and he only sells toxic securities.  Lila Priouleau, the most notorious woman ever to visit Harvard, is someone not to be crossed.  Crunch, who changed his name from Marion Morrison (John Wayne’s real name), is a gay hairdresser and former Delta Force operative.  And Grove O’Rourke – well, he’s a guy on the rebound from a life that had once been perfect.

Please explore my site further.  Top Producer is still in the early innings of being published.  I’ll be sure to update my site as more information becomes available.

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