The Dark Side of the Street: A Novel
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Ryan Parks is a successful hedge fund manager, his wife, Beth, is a corporate lawyer, and their eleven-year-old daughter, Lucy, is crazy about basketball. The Parks family has a great life—until Lucy gets sick and everything is turned upside down.
Ryan and Beth are now consumed only with finding a cure for their daughter, when a glimmer of hope appears in a clinical trial for an experimental new drug. Developed by a buzzy new company called BioMore, the drug is the invention of one remarkable woman, whose research may have unlocked the cure to not just Lucy’s cancer but all cancers.
The drug shows incredible promise at first, and Lucy is getting better and stronger by the day—until rumors of trial patient fatalities, along with a sudden drop in the stock price, threaten BioMore’s future. This seemingly simple case of securities fraud leads Ryan into a vortex of international biotech espionage.
As the walls close in, Ryan will have to contend with rival firms, a tenacious FBI agent who suspects him of murder, and a mob boss who will do anything to silence him. But the biggest threat of all is the highly skilled assassin who threatens not only Ryan’s family but the greatest medical breakthrough of the century.
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About the author
Danny Moses was a key player on Wall Street at the center of a historic bet against the US housing market, as portrayed in Michael Lewis’s #1 New York Times bestselling book The Big Short and later in the Adam McKay-directed film, which was nominated for five Academy Awards (and won Best Adapted Screenplay). Danny was also featured in Flash Boys, Lewis’s next book, which exposed the emergent underworld of high-speed trading. Danny is a regular on various financial media programs and serves as the host of a popular podcast, as well as the coauthor of a highly ranked Substack newsletter.
Steve Hamilton is the two-time Edgar Award–winning, New York Times bestselling author of the Alex McKnight series (with over a million copies sold), the Nick Mason series, and the stand-alone novel The Lock Artist. Two of his novels have been named New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and he’s one of only three authors in history to win Edgar Awards for both Best First Novel and Best Novel. Other major awards include the Shamus, the Barry, the AMA Alex Award, and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller. He was born and raised in the Detroit area and attended the University of Michigan, where he received the prestigious Hopwood Award for Fiction.
