The Persistence of Past

By Thomas Hofstedt

Financial markets are bloodless arenas with anonymous combatants, indifferent to the innocence or malevolence of the contending parties. Some of the buyers and sellers are there to exploit that indifference. Others, because they are offended by it. Even in a $30 trillion marketplace, such natural enemies will find one another.Michael Collins became an activist short seller as a second-best form of revenge and over twenty years built Prometheus LLC into a significant player, one that punished bad actors in the system He made enemies, but they were pinstriped lawyers armed with feigned outrage and injunctions. But when he begins targeting Russian oligarchs who are clients of Yorem Baranikov, his world turns lethal. Simultaneously, each of the two women in his life harbors self-destructive secrets and old enemies come to life.Collins and Baranikov become unwilling participants in the larger drama involving Russia's whipsawing course toward capitalism and modernity. It is a treacherous landscape, littered with greed, vengeance, geopolitical agendas and treacherous allies. Finally, the players and their ambitions converge on a remote Alaskan lake, bearing weapons and plots designed to create a future to their liking. Some will die. Others will learn that their past may be more important than the future they envision.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0578578174
• ISBN13: 9780578578170
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Career III Publishing
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"