By George Ebey In their new novel KGB BANKER, authors William Burton McCormick and John Christmas bring us a work of suspense fiction that was inspired by real-life corruption. What if you…
Financial Thrillers
By Dawn Ius Writing obituaries might not be the most natural progression to fiction, but for Patrick Oster—who once wrote an obituary for the infamous killer, Charles Manson—his long-standing side job provided…
By Dan Levy Martin Jay Weiss grew up an avid reader and lover of mysteries and thrillers. But his love of stories and storytelling seems to have come from a slightly different…
Damon Traynor leaves a glittering career on Wall Street to set up his own private equity business. When it is the winning bidder in the multi-billion dollar auction for a government-owned defense…
By Terry DiDomenico What’s so exciting about Wall Street or a bond trader who is good at his job? If you have to ask, you haven’t read THE KING OF FEAR. Listed…
By Dawn Ius Mark Petry has a secret. Despite what the synopsis may lead you to believe, there’s a lot of sex in SECRET SERVICE, the explosive first novel in a new…
By Steve Turner Welcome to a future world where everything comes with a price tag: actions, ideas, words, and even bodily functions. But this is not a book set in a typically…
By Melinda Leigh While Ben Lieberman’s novels explore many different worlds, his twenty-plus years with some of the world’s top financial firms lend his books an undeniable authenticity. The trading floor provided…
By Donna Galanti Cathy Perkins’s fourth novel, CYPHER, just released and Rachel Grant, bestselling author of the Evidence series, says it’s “A twisty mystery mixed with a compelling romance. CYPHER kept me…
By Hank Schwaeble When THE BIG THRILL asked me to interview Ted Scofield regarding his debut novel, EAT WHAT YOU KILL, an unvarnished depiction of one man’s brutal climb to reclaim a…
Drew Chapman recently answered some questions for THE BIG THRILL about his new novel, THE ASCENDANT. Give us the elevator pitch for THE ASCENDANT. THE ASCENDANT is about a twenty-six-year-old bond trader—Garrett…
A charred Arab: As a client of a Swiss private bank, he invested globally in critical infrastructures. His shocking death causes the blood pressure to rise, not only in oh-so pretty Switzerland…
By J. N. Duncan I would like to welcome Michael Pocalyko to this month’s ITW Bulletin, whose debut thriller, THE NAVIGATOR, hits the shelves in June. It’s not often than an author…
When several people involved in bidding for an oil refinery are murdered, the situation becomes far more than a billion-dollar business deal. A self-made woman in the oil industry, Lynn Dayton fights…
Three men’s lives on a knife’s edge… Shoog Clay: The nation’s winningest inner-city high school football coach resists pressure to move up to the college level because his kids in the Bronx…
By Grant McKenzie Dixie and I had just finished dropping my stockbroker off the end of a long pier with a concrete halibut in his arms when I bumped into author Michael…
One sultry morning in Charleston, South Carolina, real estate magnate Palmer Kincaid’s body washes ashore, the apparent victim of accidental drowning. Palmer’s daughter calls Grove O’Rourke, stockbroker and hero of Top Producer,…
By Sandra Parshall James Conway is the pseudonym of James P. Othmer, a hedge fund insider and global strategy director at a major advertising firm. He published two satirical novels (THE FUTURIST…
The Geneva Connection is about a massively successful private equity CEO, John Kent, who discovers when it is too late that his firm’s biggest investor is a front for a brutal, Mexican…
Kusanagi, the priceless sword of the Japanese crown jewels, that must be at the coronation of every Japanese emperor, is missing. Danny, a navy seal out of his element, is in London…