Double Dealing: When Desperate Times Require Desperate Measures

Scott is a master of the universe at a Manhattan venture capital firm.

He has the requisite nerves of steel and the connections to be a serious player. What he lacks is the big score, the deal that will put his name on the map. And time is ticking down. In the wake of the Wall Street crash of ’08, his mentor, Jordan Holstein, has been forced out, and Scott’s been passed over for partner. It won’t be long before he’s out on the street himself. His home life isn’t much better.

Then redemption arrives in the form of a techno geek Stanford undergrad with a $500 million dollar idea.

All Scott has to do is catch a flight to San Francisco and get the kid to sign on the dotted line. But before he can do that, international corporate powers, motivated as much by nationalistic fervor as by the bottom line, intervene, and Scott finds himself fleeing capture in the Sierra Nevadas. Over the course of this fast-paced novel, Scott’s life, and those of his friends, family, and colleagues are put at risk and changed inalterably.

Double Dealing is a thrilling story of high finance and international intrigue that will keep you up late, rapt until the last page.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Larry Shields started his Wall Street career in 1980, spending the first twenty years developing, marketing, and promoting investment products for corporate and wealthy investors. Writing was just one tool of communicating and promoting, combining it with video and personal presentations to help “tell a story”.

The market crash of 2008 created many stories to be told, yet all the media were caught up in the “blame game” attempting to explain how and why it happened. No one told the story of despair and desperation that everyone lived through, which many have still not recovered from.

In Larry’s thriller, we live that despair and desperation through the lives of highly successful professionals, who react in desperation when suddenly cast with the prospect of abject failure. When that prospect of failure invades their personal lives and relationships, the stakes become even higher, as they lose touch with what life could be like in a “regular job”.

Larry continues his Wall Street career managing his client’s portfolios in a large full service brokerage firm. He writes evenings and week-ends, balancing his work and family life. Many of the scenes he writes are drawn upon experiences from his work, friends, college, travelling, and hobbies.

He is currently working on a sequel to his first novel.