Flash Crash
by Denison Hatch
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GENRE: Thriller
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BLURB:
When a rogue quantitative programmer intentionally crashes
the gold index, it seems that Wall Street's worst nightmare has come true. In
truth, the crisis has just begun.
Across town, an armored truck filled with $120M of gold bullion is hijacked by an ingeniously crafted electromagnetic crane and seemingly driven into thin air.
Programmer David Belov discovers that his virtual "Flash Crash" was simply a required stepping stone towards the largest physical gold robbery in history, and that's he's been framed for the resulting chaos, the lives of his beloved wife and son on the balance...
With brooding, hardboiled detective Jake Rivett and the NYPD's finest operators from the Major Crimes Division actively seeking to locate and arrest David, and other, darker elements nipping at his heels, David is forced to confront his own past in order to have a future.
Across town, an armored truck filled with $120M of gold bullion is hijacked by an ingeniously crafted electromagnetic crane and seemingly driven into thin air.
Programmer David Belov discovers that his virtual "Flash Crash" was simply a required stepping stone towards the largest physical gold robbery in history, and that's he's been framed for the resulting chaos, the lives of his beloved wife and son on the balance...
With brooding, hardboiled detective Jake Rivett and the NYPD's finest operators from the Major Crimes Division actively seeking to locate and arrest David, and other, darker elements nipping at his heels, David is forced to confront his own past in order to have a future.
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EXCERPT:
A storied
investment bank, Montgomery was an utter cathedral of finance. If one couldn’t
identify Montgomery by name alone, then the enormous modernist vaulted glass
ceilings that no Roman architect would have conjured in his wildest dreams, and
the white Thassos marble walls, made it abundantly clear that what Montgomery
Noyes did was close to godliness. Their core competency was refined but simple.
They turned money into more money. Montgomery had experienced a hundred years of
institutional existence and planned on one thousand more. The firm was led by
extremely driven men whose risk palettes had been pushed to aggressive
overdrive at a very young age and never slowed down. In some manner of
definition, David was also one of those men. It certainly hadn’t been destined.
He’d bucked the trendline of his upbringing, but he knew that mean reversion
always had a knack for bringing shooting stars back to Earth.
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Denison is a screenwriter and novelist. He has a number
of feature and television projects in development, including his original
screenplay, Vanish Man, which is set up at Lionsgate. A graduate of Cornell
University, he lives with his wife and a big dog in a little house in
Hollywood. He is presently working on the third Jake Rivett thriller.
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and
RAFFLECOPTER CODE
Denison Hatch will be awarding a copy of Flash Crash (U.S.
only) to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Use the link below to enter.
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