Ghosts of Manhattan

This instant New York Times bestseller offers a withering view of life on Wall Street from the perspective of an unhappy insider who is too hooked on the money to find a way out, even as his career is ruining his marriage and corroding his soul.

It's 2005. Nick Farmer is a thirty-five-year-old bond trader with Bear Stearns clearing seven figures a year. The novelty of a work-related nightlife centering on liquor, hookers, and cocaine has long since worn thin, though Nick remains keenly addicted to his annual bonus. But the lifestyle is taking a toll on his marriage--and on him.

When a nerdy analyst approaches him with apocalyptic prognostications of where Bear's high-flying mortgage-backed securities trading may lead, Nick is presented with the kind of ethical dilemma he's spent a lifetime avoiding. Throw in a hot financial journalist who seems to be more interested in him than in the percolating financial Armageddon and the prospect that his own wife may have found a new romantic interest of her own, and you have the recipe for Nick's personal and professional implosion.

By turns hilarious and harrowing, Ghosts of Manhattan follows a winning but flawed protagonist as he struggles to find the right path in a complicated urban heart of darkness

Author: Douglas Brunt
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Published: 05/14/2013
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781451672602
ISBN10: 1451672608
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Humorous | Black Humor

About the Author
Douglas Brunt is the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosts of Manhattan, The Means, Trophy Son, and Engines and Empires, and host of the top-rated SiriusXM author podcast Dedicated with Doug Brunt. A Philadelphia native, he lives in New York with his wife and three children. Visit DouglasBrunt.com for more information.