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    The Prince of Risk: A Novel

    Written by Christopher Reich

    Narrated by Paul Michael

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    About this audiobook

    At the crossroads of high finance and international terrorism, a New York hedge-fund manager searches for the truth behind his father's murder.

    The master of the financial thriller returns.

    "Christopher Reich is a superstar."-Lee Child

    Bobby Astor is a fearless New York hedge-fund gunslinger on the verge of making his biggest killing ever. But everything changes when his father, the venerable chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange, is murdered along with the head of the Federal Reserve in a brazen, inexplicable attack on the South Lawn of the White House. In the moments before his death, Astor's father sends Bobby a mystifying text message . . . a single word that Bobby soon realizes offers the only clue to the identity of his father's killer and the terrifying motivation behind the attack.

    As Bobby unravels the mystery behind his father's death, he crosses paths with his ex-wife, no-nonsense Special Agent Alex Forza of the FBI, who is hot on the trail of a band of elite international terrorists intent on infiltrating New York City. All the while, Bobby must fight to hold together his increasingly risky business deal. At stake is not only the survival of his company and a colossal fortune . . . but also a sophisticated foreign conspiracy that threatens the entire financial system of the United States.

    The Prince of Risk is Christopher Reich's most prescient, suspenseful, and entertaining thriller, a novel that anticipates the headlines of the near future and shows, once again, why The New York Times calls Reich "the John Grisham of Wall Street."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateDec 3, 2013
    ISBN9780307943569
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    • 4/5
      The Prince of Risk is a classic plot: the Chinese will take over the United States and the World through cunning, deception and terrorism. It smacks of the Yellow Peril. The basis for this take over is control over the country’s finances. Sound familiar?Although this thriller is well written and well-plotted, it just didn’t capture my interest. In fact, it took me three weeks to read it - not a good quality for a thriller. I think that we just weren’t a good fit, but it is a good book. Guess that hedge funds and risking hundreds of millions of dollars on whether the yen will rise or fall is just too remote for me.The dialogue is clever and the the characters well developed. Lots of famous players join the party: the FBI, Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange, the White House, the CIA, Chinese Triads, the French Foreign Legion, Silicon Valley and scary computer Geeks. There are secret messages to track down, close calls and even cool tricked-out cars. The ending is tidy and fair. Not a bad book, just not my cup of tea.
    • 3/5
      A fast paced book that was a little too rushed with something big constantly happening -- especially toward the end. The bit about Astor being a superhero -- being stabbed to the bone and then fingernails pulled out and yet kept on as if nothing happened was dumb.
    • 4/5
      I received The Prince of Risk by Christopher Reich free from Goodreads in exchange for a book review.I have read a number of Christopher Reich's book and have always enjoyed them. The Prince of Risk is no exception. It's a rollicking joyride of a financial thriller. As usual, the financial aspects of the novel work better than the characterizations and interpersonal dialogue. The relationship that comes across best is the one between the protagonist, New York City hedge-fund manager Bobby Astor, and his right-hand man and best friend, Marv Shank:Shank: You're sure?Astor: Do you want me to pinkie swear?Shank: Screw you. Shows what I get for caring.Astor: If you want a friend...Both: Buy a dog.It might not be deep but it does come off as classic Wall Street bravado and very much in character for two old hands ruling over a successful hedge fund.There was also a line between the two of them that I found amusing. When Astor decided to try to investigate his father's murder, Shank accused him of thinking he was Harry Bosch. A name familiar to mystery fans since that's Michael Connelly's lead character in his LA based detective series. I love when authors do shout outs like that though I realize some folk find it cheesey.The plot is fast paced and quite enjoyable. From the conspiracy oriented start when 4 prominent men from the world of finance, including Bobby Astor's father, President of the New York Stock Exchange, are mysteriously killed while on their way to inform the President of the United States of a national threat to multinational corporations being used as building blocks in a diabolical plot this book rocks the way you'll view the world.
    • 3/5
      If you've liked other Reich novels, you will like this one. I didn't start off with a good impression. Christopher Reich took a gamble (see what I did there? I could have said "he took a risk", but I'm a better man than that) when he decided to make a hedge fund manager the hero of the story, but in the end Bobby Astor wasn't as objectionable as he could have been.This sounds like faint praise, but it isn't. Reich managed to do something good here. Price of Risk is a classic page turner. It doesn't ask a lot of the reader (there are a lot of financial terms and concepts throughout, but Reich breezes through them so that even a financial illiterate like me wasn't bored or bogged down), but it keeps your interest and forces you power through to the end. If you're looking for a beach read, or a book to lay down in front of a fireplace with, this is a good one.
    • 5/5
      Christopher Reich’s The Prince of Risk is a great contemporary thriller. There is no need to reveal much about the plot, If you like this genre, you will like this book. It has an interesting characters and a believable scenario: a Chinese cyberattack on Wall Street. Reich is very good on explaining complex financial maneuvers and electronic technology without letting it bog down the story. The sort of all-seeing surveillance Reich describes seems prescient in light of the recent revelations about the NSA.