THE LAST TRADE

A corporate thriller for our age: THE LAST TRADE is the first in a series of original and hyper-current international thrillers intent on capturing the pulse, swagger, and menace of the world of 21st century finance, technology, and new media. An exciting, fast-moving thriller. One doesn't need to know about finance to enjoy this one.

Drew Havens made a killing for the Rising Fund, the only hedge operation to anticipate and capitalize on the mortgage crisis of 2008. For Havens, who is what the Street calls a "quant," it's always been about the numbers. He sees things others can't, from the collapse of the American real estate market to the multi-billion dollar rise of his ruthless and charismatic boss.

Haves is rich beyond his dreams, but his involvement with The Rising has cost him his marriage and now it may cost him his life. It starts with the brutal murder of his young protégé and then, over the course of six explosive days, six more brokers around the world are killed, each after executing a trade directly linked to the holdings of The Rising. As the violence escalates from South Africa to Sao 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 are at the center of it.

THE LAST TRADE is a relentlessly entertaining, adrenalin-fueled thriller about the forces that shape our culture and a loneman desperate to achieve redemption - and in the process avert a global economic tragedy. As the conspiracy cascades toward its conclusion, Havens falls back on his core belief, the only thing that my gudie him to the answer: the truth is in the numbers.

James Conway has spent more than two decades as an executive, advising and growing many of the world's leading corporations. His global consulting clients presently include branding, tech, and innovation companies, social, new, and old media firms, and financial institutions. His continuing role as a strategic trend advisor and Research Fellow for a successful hedge fund helped prove the premise and background for THE LAST TRADE, his first thriller.