Just as Wall Street bankers go back to work from their summer vacations, the latest financial thriller is hitting the bookstores.
The Velocity of Money is a bestseller-by-numbers collage, with the technical jargon of Tom Clancy, the bullet-dodging lawyer of John Grisham, the breathless prose of Jeffrey Archer (“STATUS – 107% AHEAD OF SCHEDULE” prints out a computer at one point).
Ludicrous but enjoyable, it centres on a scheme by mastermind Philip Colbert and what author Stephen Rhodes describes as a “cadre of evil financiers” to cause a 50% stock market crash and make billions in the process.
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