Chameleon

by Richard Hains

Jon Phillips is head bond trader at one of Wall Street's largest investment banks and lives the American dream in the heart of New York's decadent banking community. But, after years of selfishness and extravagance, he plans his exit through an unprecedented and ultimately fraudulent deal in the US government bond market. A high-ranking colleague, who sits on the bank's main board, has teamed up with a Russian financier in order to provide Jon with one of the key elements vital to the success of his ingenious scheme. The deal goes spectacularly wrong and Jon's world collapses. As the Russians desperately attempt to recover their lost millions, Jon is thrown into a deadly game of cat and mouse. From the seedy nightspots of downtown NYC to the plush yacht clubs of the Hamptons, pastoral aristocratic England, and Southern Australia's endless beaches, past lovers, new menaces, and numerous apparently accidental deaths line his trail. Jon's survival now depends on putting the past behind him and becoming a calculated predator instead of the vulnerable prey.

336 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2006

About the author

Richard Hains is a financial expert and successful global investor with over twenty years experience. Along with his brothers, he currently runs a substantial private hedge fund that invests globally in the major equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets. Hains was also the founder and architect of one of the largest and most efficient newly built gold facilities in the Former Soviet Union and has recently established a boutique investment company based in London to take advantage of the deregulation of the West African oil and gas industry.

Richard Hains uses his financial world expertise as the background for his first novel Chameleon.

Reviews

[Bogdan A. · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Ice · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jon Phillips is head bond trader at one of Wall Street's largest investment banks and lives the American dream in the heart of New York's decadent banking community. But, after years of selfishness and extravagance, he plans his exit through an unprecedented and ultimately fraudulent deal in the US government bond market.

A high-ranking colleague, who sits on the bank's main board, has teamed up with a Russian financier in order to provide Jon with one of the key elements vital to the success of his ingenious scheme. The deal goes spectacularly wrong and Jon's world collapses. As the Russians desperately attempt to recover their lost millions, Jon is thrown into a deadly game of cat and mouse.

From the seedy nightspots of downtown NYC to the plush yacht clubs of the Hamptons, pastoral aristocratic England, and Southern Australia's endless beaches, past lovers, new menaces, and numerous apparently accidental deaths line his trail. Jon's survival now depends on putting the past behind him and becoming a calculated predator instead of the vulnerable prey.

[Elysabeth · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was too technical for me and very difficult to follow. Too much introduced at the beginning and too many terms I needed to look up. I probably could have guessed from the context but I was constantly looking info up and the characters were all introduced right near the beginning and by the time they were mentioned again, had to jump back and see if who that character was. Again, not a very good book - don't recommend it unless you are into all that high finance and technical jargon.

[Joelle · Rating 2 out of 5]

There was a reason this was at the Dollar Tree!! While the story eventually sucked me in, it was a traditional "done wrong righteous justice to follow" kind of story. There was a lot of technical terminology to start with -- slugged through that. Language would have received R or sometimes X ratings if made into a movie.

Not one I would read or potentially recommend!

[Renee · Rating 2 out of 5]

not one I would recommend . . .

[Barbara Adams]

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