Fifteen Digits
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5.0 • 4 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A gritty thriller set in the world of powerful New York law firms, from Nick Santora, writer of the hit crime dramas The Sopranos, Law & Order, Prison Break, and Breakout Kings and the nationally bestselling author of Slip & Fall.
Is it really insider trading if you've been an outsider your entire life?
Five men. Five walks of life. Every day they come together at the white shoe law firm Olmstead & Taft. But they're not lawyers. They're "Printers": blue-collar guys consigned to the dark basement of the firm charged with copying, collating and delivering the mountains of paperwork that document millions of dollars of sensitive legal secrets.
Until the five are approached by an ambitious young attorney who teaches them what they have: insider information. Together they make a plan to take the classified documents that pass through their hands every day and use them to get rich. They create a joint account to deposit the spoils. An account with a safeguard -- each one only knows one section of the access code.
Which means that for all five conspirators, there's no way out. But as too much money piles up to go unnoticed, the Printers will discover there's one thing even worse than being an outsider: being in too deep.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Heavy-handed foreshadowing undercuts the suspense of this modern-day thriller from Santora (Slip & Fall), a writer for such TV shows as The Sopranos and Law & Order. In the prologue, Jason Spade, eventually revealed to be a disgruntled junior lawyer at Olmstead & Taft ("the biggest, baddest, toughest, and most powerful law firm in all of New York City"), has a bar conversation with Rich Mauro, a former construction worker who recently landed a job in the firm's basement printing office. Spade wants to exploit the "invisibility" of support staff like Mauro and his co-workers to get rich. As soon as Spade begins to pitch a scheme, Santora tells us that "a chain of events began that changed, destroyed, and ended lives. People would be maimed, tortured, and killed. Millions of dollars would be stolen, then stolen away from the thieves themselves." With so much revealed from the outset, continued engagement is contingent on good prose and thoughtful characterization, both of which are in short supply.
Customer Reviews
Excellent Book
Compliments to the author on writing an exceptional book. Best character development I have seen in many years. The story is very exciting, engaging and will keep you up reading well after your bed time. 5 stars!