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At 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers; reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the World. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages, one witnessed only by the people who lived it, until now.

Protagonist JR John is beginning to understand that money, sex, and power are all fruits from the same tree. What’s the worst that could happen if risk-averse money manager JR Johnson dips his toe into Bitcoin investing? The Russian FSB, US Cyber Command, and a couple of murderous operatives want to show him. Who’s really behind all this Bitcoin noise, and how does it connect to cyberwarfare? How does it feel to be a useful idiot? JR finds out the answers to these questions in a novel that is suspenseful, smart, and funny.

Money manager J. R. Johnson coasts through life in his adopted home of Austin, Texas. Seen as an underachiever by his family, J.R. has a complicated relationship with a client, movie goddess Lola Madison. When Lola asks J.R. to accompany her to a New York gala event, Johnson has reason to suspect that she may be moving her account to a Wall Street hotshot. J. R. investigates and suspects that the New Yorker is running an audacious Ponzi scheme.

Have you ever wondered how the Apollo astronauts really got along with each other? How do NFL coaches actually call plays in the pressure packed final seconds of the Super Bowl? What's it like to show up as an amateur to play in The Masters Tournament? How do you become an astrophysicist? In this book, you'll discover the answer to these and other questions through the autobiography of a fictional wise guy who experiences the above and more in a frequently laugh out loud memoir.

A brilliant road map for discovering history, science, civilization, and the human condition, this engaging record recommends must-hear books: those so revealing about times and places that they take the listener beyond day-to-day concerns into a magic realm of knowledge and imagination.

Are you tired of taking your golf game too seriously? Then Hit Your Second Shot First is the perfect book for you! Written with a unique sense of humor and filled with sarcastic rule changes, this golf guide will have you laughing your way to a better game.