Timothy's Game
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Publisher Description
Wall Street private investigator Timothy Cone is back in this trio of novellas that plunge into the high-stakes worlds of insider trading, corporate espionage, and cold-blooded murder
Timothy Cone works for an agency that provides "financial intelligence"—and often investigates murder and mayhem, too. In "Run, Sally, Run!," Timothy Cone investigates insider leaks in a New York investment banking house, and faces the ruthless Sally Steiner, who's willing to do anything to succeed in a man's world.
"A Case of the Shorts" opens with a bang: The CEO of a powerful Wall Street firm is gunned down in his limo. Cone is dispatched, ostensibly to uncover evidence of industrial sabotage. But what he finds is a simmering hornet's nest of greed, passion, and betrayal.
A Chinese food corporation on the New York Stock Exchange raises red flags in "One From Column A." When the elderly CEO of White Lotus employs Cone's company to investigate, Cone is soon tangling with kidnapping, extortion, and the Asian mafia, and it's hard to tell who's scamming whom.
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Timothy Cone, Sanders's shabbily dressed, tough-talking, razor-witted Wall Street dick, is back at his special game in three dazzlingly plotted stories that might have been subtitled (to borrow the words of Cone's feisty girlfriend and boss): ``The things people will do for the almighty buck.'' Among the colorful players, , there's the resilient daughter of a gangster who not only knows how to combine insider trading with running her late father's garbage disposal business, but who, with Cone's help, learns how to keep the business out of the grasping hands of mobsters and stay alive; the financial tycoon so universally hated it takes a Cone to pick the person who really ``offed'' him from among all those who wanted to; and the case of the mysterious rise in the stock of a Chinese food company, the investigation of which puts Cone in the crossfire of murderous Chinese gangs. What Sanders (The Anderson Tapes, The Fourth Deadly Sin, The Timothy Files) doesn't know about insider trading, crooked takeover bids, blackmail, greenmail and the way cops and racketeers think and talk is nobody's business. And he knows quite a bit about human psychology, too. Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club and Mystery Guild alternates.
