The Last Trade

James Conway has written the corporate thriller for our age, an age when the power of new media and the hunger of Wall Street
converge to form a deadly entity capable of bringing the global economy to its knees.

Drew Havens made a killing for the Rising Fund, which, thanks to his prognostications,
was the only hedge operation to anticipate and capitalize on the mortgage crisis of
2008. For Havens, it's always been about the numbers. He sees things others can't, from
the collapse of the American real estate market to the multibillion-dollar rise of his
ruthless and charismatic boss.

Havens is now rich beyond his dreams, but his work at the Rising Fund has cost
him his marriage. And now it may cost him his life. It starts with the brutal murder of
his young protégé and, over the course of six explosive days, six other brokers around
the world, each killed after executing a trade linked to the Rising Fund.

As the violence escalates from South Africa to São Paulo, Hong Kong to Berlin,
Havens frantically tries to construct a model that will reveal the catastrophic event
that only he can see coming-and confirm that his boss and the Rising Fund are at the
center of it. The Last Trade is a relentlessly entertaining, adrenaline-fueled thriller about
the forces that shape our culture-and a lone man desperate to achieve redemption-
while averting a global economic catastrophe.

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