Chameleon A Novel by Richard Hains
Beaufort Books, 2006
ISBN 0-8253-0510-1
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Chameleon is a thriller, a financial thriller written by a man who knows
the
financial world. Richard Hains is a leading hedge fund investor and money
manager who lives in London and Australia. He knows bonds and bond
trading.
He knows U.S. government bonds and the options market from ten-year
government bonds to thirty-year long bonds. He knows the "trading floors"
in
London and New York and how the cor****ate bond market works. He can tell a
fast-moving story within these worlds; a thriller with killers-good and
bad.
Can Jon Phillips, financial trading genius, corner the market in benchmark
treasuries and U.S. Government Bonds? He wants one big strike so he can
quit
and retire rich. The possibility of a short monopolizing of the market has
been almost eliminated by the SEC since the fiasco of the Long Term
Capital
Management company. This financial scandal and near-system meltdown was
the
last gasp of the "junk bond" failures from the 80s caused by Michael
Milken
and Ivan Boesky--captured on paper in Predator's Ball. [If you've read
that
book, you ought to like this one]. The manipulation of bond prices then
was
noticed not only by the SEC, but by the Chairman of the Federal Reserve
and
by the CIA. This was a real-life attempt to corner the bond market that
sunk
Drexel, Burnham, Lambert and sent Milken and Boesky to jail. Chameleon
updates the details fictionally. It can happen here--and there!--again.
Richard Hains can craft a murder mystery with money motives as well as
Stephen Frey, author of the best-selling novels: Trust Fund: a Novel;
Shadow
Account: a Novel; The Insider: a Novel; The Day Trader; The Chairman: a
Novel; The Protege: a Novel; The Power Broker: A Novel and Silent Partner.
If you liked Freakonomics, this financial mystery will be your escape
reading. If you liked Liar's Poker, you'll love this crime novel. And if
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man spoke to you, then Chameleon's story of
an economic hit and run man---one final deal and he's gone--is your coin
of
vantage. The comparison with Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities is also
very good. Richard Hains's Chameleon has the potential to do for financial
thrillers what Tom Clancy's books did for the techno/military genre.
Wall Street and big money almost always includes *** and drugs. Chameleon
does not disappoint. When Jack's attempt to corner the market fails--due
to
a breaking news scandal involving the Fed Chairman and a 17-year-old
girl---he is forced to resign. Those whose money he lost want it back.
They
kill Jack's happy, innocent brother to make their point. Jack is on the
run
trying to protect himself and get even. From New York to London to
Australia
via car, boat and planes--killings all along the way--- in rapid-fire
action
made for the movies. There is the help of an old girlfriend. There is a
romance with a new girlfriend, the right woman. But can Jack get even and
get free if anyone else knows what he is doing? Do millions and
killer-instinct smarts buy freedom? Is Body Heat a good movie? Chameleon,
the one thriller to read if you are reading financial thrillers.
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