The ONS Foundation recently invited me to serve as the auctioneer at their annual fundraising dinner. Bottom line–the event was a blast. But I'm not giving up my day job any time soon. The foundation is a terrific organization dedicated to improving the...
Who likes audiobooks as much as I do? 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 cabbies giving me the finger....
You gotta love social media. I was about to tweet this afternoon and noticed this exchange between two women on Twitter: Woman 1: "Apparently Kurt Vonnegut has a cousin named Norb. I find this amusing." Woman 2: "Norb reminds me of Norbert, which...
“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
Over the past week, I’ve been thinking about acronyms. Not sure why. When I worked on Wall Street, I avoided them. The investment banks tried to simplify complex financial instruments with familiar sounding names that sometimes went too far: LYONs and TIGRs and...
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.
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.