Money Mystery

Follow the Money is a collection of novellas that follows the lives of different bank notes on their respective journeys, as they pass from one person to the next through London and New York. In a twist of fate, both of these bank notes transform in the second installment of each story. It sends them on a completely new journey into the unknown.

Telemarketer Maximilian Hansen, a middle-class American, struggles at a dead-end job. On an eventful and unforgettable day, he encounters a charming young man. Little does Max know just how much that man will turn his world upside down. Offered the chance to change his life in ways he's never even imagined, though, Max is faced with a decision. Should he take a chance at bettering his life, at the risk that things could go sour and potentially endanger his livelihood and his family?

Once free of the army, Sam Byrne assumed life as a civilian would free and easy. He was wrong. Strapped with a huge gambling debt and wanting to take care of his newly pregnant wife, his life is going in the wrong direction faster than he ever thought possible. Little does he know that a routine traffic accident that resulted in the death of mobster's son is about to change his life and his debt forever.

Chicago, Illinois, 1893: Craig Parker war der Missmut ins Gesicht geschrieben. Eine Niederlage nach der anderen musste der junge Versicherungsagent hinnehmen. Sein Schuldenberg wurde von Tag zu Tag größer und der Vermieter saß ihm bereits im Nacken. Das sollte sich endlich ändern. Der nächste Kundenbesuch konnte ihm verhelfen die Mietrückstände mit einem Schlag zu begleichen. Voller Zuversicht betrat Parker das neue Hotelgebäude.

Recognizing the need to assure their unfettered access to oil, the lifeblood of their economic survival, the Chinese unveil their secret weapon, the super aircraft carrier, Sun Shili: a behemoth war machine twice the size of anything in the US fleet. It's steaming straight for the Persian Gulf in a risky power maneuver. Are the Chinese willing to risk all-out war? Meanwhile, Allah's Fortune has designs to leverage world confrontation, destroying America while assuring itself supreme power through currency manipulation.

Che cosa collega il rapimento di un’antropologa a Parigi con gli omicidi di un banchiere a Milano e di un finanziere saudita a Nizza? Sono tutti eventi in preparazione di quella che diventerà "la rapina del millennio", progettata da un collettivo di hacker internazionale che si fa chiamare FaceLess. L'indagine viene affidata alla profiler Gaia Virgili, da poco a capo di una squadra investigativa dell'Europol, con sede a L'Aia.

Ex-cop Vance Courage is heading off for an island vacation when HIPP Corp’s CEO Sherry Rogers jets into Miami for a surprise meeting. An oncologist using her company’s electronic medical records software lost a patient during a routine chemotherapy infusion and the family is threatening to sue. Worried the business will be named in the lawsuit, she insists he go to Indianapolis to investigate. He can’t very well say no. He and his partner Lauren Gold recently invested five million of their own dirty dollars to save her company from bankruptcy.

There's a new reality TV game show that pays contestants to hurt themselves. How much pain would you endure to make some quick cash? Would you shoot yourself with a nail gun for $10,000? There are plenty of contestants willing to go on live TV to make a quick buck. Would you watch the show? The ratings are looking good. Easy Money becomes the most talked about show on television.

When former platoon sergeant Matt Kubelsky is paroled from Ray Brook Federal Correctional Institute in upstate New York, he's surprised to find his ex-girlfriend waiting for him out in the parking lot. An ex-girlfriend he's spent years pining for after she dumped him. An ex-girlfriend who wonders if her apparently criminally-hardened ex-boyfriend can help her out of some extra-legal difficulty of her own.

Most of this story is true; the rest of it could so easily have been. Boat Troop are sent up river into war-torn Sierra Leone on a mission to secure a vital ore mine. While the men battle their way up river past vicious hippos and poisonous snakes, political events are rapidly overtaking the city-based HQ. As the balance of power swings between government and rebels, HMG wavers in its intentions. Soon after Boat Troop arrive at the mine they discover they are out on their own... and with the extra burden of civilians to hamper their task.

And high-ranking members have taken an interest in FBI Special Agent Megan Luchek. Money Makes It Deadlier: Agent Luchek steps into high heels and deep danger when she gets assigned to investigate a bank. Revenge Makes It Sweeter: Megan gets a late-night summons to the hospital to speak with a gunshot victim. Christmas Makes It Chaos: Agent Luchek goes to Philadelphia for an antiterrorism conference only to face off against real terrorists. Treachery Makes It Tense: Megan gets an unlikely ally in the desperate fight to save Dan’s family from a madman.

帝都銀行で唯一、行内の不祥事処理を任されている指宿修平。

『四人の誓い』事件後、結婚し医院を開業したワトソンのもとをホームズが訪れた。依頼人とともにバーミンガムまで同行してほしいと言う。その依頼人は、若いロンドンっ子で、株の仲買人。失業後、才能が買われ勤めることになった会社はとても厚遇してくれるのだが、何かがおかしい…。ホームズとワトソンは一大事件に関わることに!『株式仲買人』(原題: THE STOCK-BROKER'S CLERK)は、『株式仲買店員』『株屋の店員』などの邦題で知られている。(1893年3月初出)/「シャーロック・ホームズの記憶」よりFirst published in the Strand Magazine, March. 1893

Wall Street banker John Thatcher is drawn into this mystery as a financial man seeking to get his bank repaid. In this case it relates to a trust fund with an heir missing and then killed.

The Midwest Book Review calls Striker Jones a "fun and rollicking series" with "effortless teaching of both cooperation values and basic economics". Striker Jones is a classic kid's detective novel that also teaches children ages 8-12 basic economic concepts. By solving 10 entertaining mysteries with boy detective Striker Jones, kids will learn concepts like trade-offs, supply and demand, risk, and incentives. There's no jargon - only fun!

From a laboratory comes the discovery of the Fountain of Youth. Johnny Long must navigate his way through the shifting landscape of a stock market under enormous pressure prior to an economic meltdown that will reduce Wall Street juggernauts to rubble overnight. A bigger challenge looms in the not-so-distant future; the prelude to a new world order that threatens everyone; a world in which free will may be circumvented in favor of a longer lifespan.

The crash of the stock market has created a rippling effect of disastrous proportions. Banks have failed, and people are rioting in the streets of the cities, which are on fire. Rolling blackouts have given way to entire system failures. University of Chicago Economics Professor Harry Mason, advisor to U.S. presidents and the Treasury Department, has gathered his dream team of "whiz kids," the brightest and the best graduate students in economics, for a special laboratory class. Their mission: Save the world.

Wooed away from a top job at a competing firm by Ed Roth with promises of breaking the glass ceiling when she succeeds him as the head of the investment bank Drake Carlson, Kate learns that she has real potential for the top spot. First, she must prove her worth by unconventionally putting together an IPO for a small games maker whose most valuable but unknown asset may be a painting stolen from a Jewish family as they fled Austria after the Nazi invasion. Kate’s professional challenges play out amid a family crisis: Her husband’s company is imploding and he may have to relocate to a remote part of China to save even a small portion of his business.

How far would you go for unlimited wealth and power? For Thane Coder, a shot at running one of the richest, most influential corporations in America was an opportunity he couldn’t pass up. And with his seductive, savvy wife, Jessica, showing him the way, his fate was decided. All it took was a back door, a snowy night, and an old hunting knife to unlock more money than Thane could ever imagine. After he murders his boss, mentor, and friend James King, Thane and Jessica leap into a life of corporate jets and tropical hideaways - a world of infinite luxury and privilege.

Retired newspaper reporter Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins - Henrie O to her friends - receives a call for help from a former lover, who is now entangled with a wealthy and troubled family. He asks Henrie O to come along with the family on a Baltic cruise. On the voyage, she soon realizes this dysfunctional family is plunging toward destruction, and that one of the travelers has murder in mind.