Kirkus Reviews and The Trust
Mommas, don’t let your sons grow up to be Manhattan brokers or board members of charitable foundations. They’d never survive the combination of criminal plots and personal threats.
Review by BookPleasures.com
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June is National Audiobook Month
When I was a stockbroker, braving my way through Manhattan’s kiss-and-yell traffic every morning, I listened to books on tape all the time. Hemingway, Irving, Wolfe–I grew to love the cabbies giving me the finger. Jaywalkers thumbing their noses were no problem.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Twitter
You gotta love social media. I was about to tweet this afternoon and noticed this exchange between two women on Twitter:
“If Books Could Kill”
Southern Rhode Island is must-reading if you travel to the beaches around Narragansett. Erin Swanson and I recently discussed my new novel, The Trust, for the magazine. Here’s what she wrote about our discussion:
Excerpt from Last Lawyer Standing
"Still, the flight from New Orleans to Honolulu seemed like a long way to go just to die. A man could die pretty much anywhere these days." -- LAST LAWYER STANDING (2012) by Douglas Corleone
Acronyms Gone Wild: TWHAB
Over the past week, I’ve been thinking about acronyms. Not sure why.
Excerpt from Night on Fire
"Erin Simms is like the fire itself, something I should run from whether she started the blaze or not. In either case, she's my client and can burn me in every way imaginable." NIGHT ON FIRE (2011) by Douglas Corleone
Norb Vonnegut
The New York Times describes my novels as “money porn,” “a red-hot franchise,” and “glittery thrillers about fiscal malfeasance.” Through fiction I explore the dark side of money and the motivations of those who have it, want more, and will steamroll anybody who gets in their way.