A financial fiction suspense thriller, this is the complete set of Don Plenter's St. James Financial Thriller Series. Starting on Wall Street in New York city, this type of book is also known as a financial crime thriller, encompassing financial crime fiction and banking crime fiction in general. Written by a former banker, it's fast paced, heart pounding story-line is based around the concept that where there's a lot of money to be made, or lost, there's also murder.
In this financial thriller, the Wall street bank was on the chopping block. St. James, a former Marine intelligence officer, now senior executive at People's bank of New York, would be getting screwed out of his rightful executive compensation. He decides to extract that compensation using military precision and the bank's own computer systems. But competition arrives on the scene, a beautiful but deadly, psychotic killer, possessing the skills of seduction she plans to use with murderous intentions. Stealing and funneling three hundred million dollars out of the country comes with a heavy toll - lives lost - as betrayals are exposed and greed flares in this fast paced suspense filled thriller. In too deep, St. James must follow through - win, or die.
Financial thrillers are a relatively new genre. The name "Financial suspense" is another general search term for this genre. Many financial crime thrillers are set in New York, and on Wall Street, which stands to reason, as Wall Street financial crime is the hotbed for both real crime and financial fiction.
The emergence of financial suspense as a financial thriller genre began around the time of the infamous Bernie Madoff trials. Since then, many authors have gravitated towards the financial suspense genre.
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