—Elliot Ackerman, The New York Times bestselling author of 2034
“This engaging novel about a flawed financier is written by a gifted storyteller who knows the ins and outs of high finance from his days as a senior Wall Street executive and one of the financial sector’s biggest producers.”
— David Rockefeller, Jr., Director of Rockefeller Capital Management
“High Finance brings a new authoritative voice to fiction from the cutthroat world of elite investment banking. As a reader I experienced many moments of mirth and even found myself laughing out loud at this new, inventive novel in stories.”
— Esmeralda Santiago, author of When I Was Puerto Rican
“I had just stepped down as Chairman of the M.I.T. Board of Trustees when I read this accurate, trenchant, and hilarious work. I commend High Finance to the attention of all who love good writing and are interested in a practitioner’s humor-filled take on Wall Street’s inner sanctum.”
—Robert B. Millard, Chairman Emeritus the MIT Corporation
He did what it takes to make it to the top, letting nothing hold him back. While orchestrating multibillion-dollar deals and becoming spectacularly wealthy, Jed binges on pot and alcohol, trades on inside information, cheats on his wife, and becomes one of Wall Street’s key players. At the dawn of the new century, with a monomaniacal obsession Jed borrows to buy as many shares of Lehman Brothers as he can get his hands on, only to be wiped out on that fateful September day when Lehman was fed to the wolves. Forced from his four-bedroom duplex on Park Avenue to a cheap rental in the working-class town of Patchogue, is redemption and resurrection for Jed even possible?
Through a kaleidoscope of voices—his wife, his British secretary, his Marxist brother, the Lehman “informant,” an internal auditor dedicated to Jed’s destruction, and others—we come to intimately understand Jed and how the unpredictable external forces to which we are all susceptible shape and define us.
The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers was a pivotal moment in the 2008 crash of the financial markets that led to job losses, a housing market crisis, and a global recession whose effects are still being felt to this day. In telling the story of one man at the center of this moment, Ken Miller offers us a new perspective on Wall Street in the twenty-first century.
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