Blown

✍ Scribed by Smith, Mark Haskell

• Book ID: 110349029
• Publisher: Grove Atlantic
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 215 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780802128140

✦ Synopsis

Hailed as "the slightly more well-adjusted offspring of Hunter S. Thompson and James Ellroy" (Los Angeles Times), Mark Haskell Smith returns with a wildly entertaining satire of corporate greed, sexual desire, and crime in the global financial services industry.
Bryan LeBlanc worked his way up into a plum position on Wall Street as the boy genius of the foreign exchange desk. Surrounded by acolytes of the free market, the true believers, the U.S. Marines of capitalism—"the few, the proud, the completely full of themselves"—Bryan soon realizes that being honest at a dishonest job is not the path to success. He decides to give Wall Street a taste of its own medicine and hatches an intricate plan to disappear permanently with just enough misappropriated money—and sailing classes—to spend his golden years cruising the Caribbean.
Bryan quickly learns that being a criminal, even a really smart one, is more complicated than he thought. He finds...
Number of Words in Auth: 3
Formats : EPUB
Number of Formats : 1
Has Cover : Yes
All Identifiers : isbn:9780802165756
Single Author : Mark Haskell Smith
Original Source : Mirc New Files 06 13
Sorted Author by LN, FN: Smith, Mark Haskell
Title Length : 005
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Record ID : 4897
Uncomma Author : Mark Haskell Smith
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