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THE ORGAN BROKER

Stu Strumwasser

This gripping Arcade thriller is written as a confession and reveals the clandestine world of the international organ trade.

THE ORGAN BROKER is the story of Jack Trayner—known as New York Jack—an underground black market organ dealer. After years of selling “life,” Jack’s conscience begins to overcome his resolve for this ghastly business. His desire for redemption is fueled by his new relationships with a woman named Michelle and a young man named Mark. As a disaffected youth in the late eighties, Jack entered the criminal world, selling coke when he needed money to pay his way through college. Although he later graduated from law school, an opportunity to earn easy money eventually seduced him into the bizarre and illegal black market for organs—a business that some consider horrendous and a small number of others deem to be heroic. The dual nature of this business assuaged Jack’s guilt and allowed him to flourish, yet the death of a client makes what he is doing all too real. THE ORGAN BROKER is both Jack’s confession and his attempt at redemption as he tries to save one last innocent patient and potential donor, instead of closing his biggest sale ever—one that would require a premeditated murder. The international black market sale of organs is real and operates at this very moment behind closed hospital doors in many cities all around the world. It is a world that most people are only vaguely aware of, and few of us know much, if anything, about it, until now—in the pages of the confession of New York Jack. Strumwasser has worked for several firms on Wall Street before founding Snow Beverages and serving as the company’s CEO for six years. He is the cofounder and COO of Tengrade, a social rating tool, and is also the drummer and songwriter for indie rock band Channeling Owen. THE ORGAN BROKER is his debut novel.

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Book Published 2015-05-01 by Arcade

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NOMINEES FOR NORTH AMERICAN HAMMETT PRIZE ANNOUNCED: The North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers is pleased to announce nominees for their annual HAMMETT PRIZE for a work of literary excellence in the field of crime writing by a US or Canadian author. The nominees are as follows: The Stranger, by Harlan Coben (Dutton) Sorrow Lake: A March and Walker Crime Novel, by Michael J. McCann (Plaid Raccoon Press) The Whites: A Novel, by Richard Price, writing as Harry Brandt (Henry Holt) The Do-Right, by Lisa Sandlin (Cinco Puntos Press) The Organ Broker: A Novel, by Stu Strumwasser (Arcade)

Exciting and thought-provoking—the perfect package.

So richly imagined and executed I felt I was reading a memoir, not a work of fiction. Stu Strumwasser is a hugely talented writer. Read the first page and you won’t want to stop.

A thrilling narrative about the very real world of organ trafficking where human bodies in the third world are spare parts for patients in the first world. When The Organ Broker has a crisis of conscience Strumwasser asks if it's possible for him to make amends. The answer is both shocking and provocative.

Powerful, original, and gut-wrenching. Stu Strumwasser takes us into the foreboding world of black market organ brokers, where each line crossed proves more dangerous than the last.

Tension and turmoil add up to high stakes suspense in this all too real thriller, about a seedy and sorted world that rings with authenticity. The line between right and wrong is not only smudged, its smeared across the page.

An international chase, a tension-driven saga of the international black market sale of organs (which is based on reality), and a tense series of encounters evolves which will immerse readers in an unrelenting thriller that's hard to put down.

A fascinating, troubling glimpse into the heart and soul of a black market organ dealer, which turn out to be even more complicated than we suspected. He’s a man who gazes at the stars while engaging in some of the most nefarious negotiations possible on this planet, a man capable of greed, regret, and love in equal measures. A gripping portrait of a man in conflict with himself.

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