Bottom Line: A Novel
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As the US and global economies in the twenty-first century head toward a major recession and companies worldwide struggle to survive, one businessman is tempted to turn to crime.
Two strong businessmen who run a colossal international management consulting and accounting firm find themselves battling one another to save it, each proposing a different way of preventing its collapse. One is the CEO and founder, an amoral, ruthless megalomaniac; the other is the senior-most executive who expects to succeed the CEO as head of the company and a principled but flawed idealist. They were once as close as father and son, the older man mentor to the younger. Now their relationship collapses along with the economy, as their firm loses one blue-chip corporate client after another.
A series of financial crimes ensue, instigated by the CEO, who uses fraudulent accounting to appear to help clients make their estimated profits while using insider trading to reap millions in personal profits. With the end in sight, he absconds with millions of dollars that had been held in trust in a partners' bonus pool, forcing the younger man to hire a private eye to hunt him down.
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Marc Davi s is the author of several children’s books and the novel Dirty Money, which was a finalist for the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for best original PI paperback. He is a former commodity broker at the Chicago Board of Trade and former newspaper reporter whose local history column, Yesterday, ran for more than five years in the Chicago Tribune. A freelance journalist, his articles have been published in national print and online periodicals and on the Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins University consumer websites. He is also an award-winning painter and art teacher.
Joe Barrett, an actor and Audie Award and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials.
