The Street Author:Lee Gruenfeld A thriller set in the world of dot-com start-up madness — as well as a classic tell-all business narrative. — James Vincent Hanley, a Wall Street stockbroker specializing in Internet start-ups and unhappily slaving away for a subsistence wage of only $300,000, makes the jump to the other side of the Street and into the biggest game in histo... more »ry. He’s done his dot-com homework and launches his own start-up, Artemis-5.com, with the key ingredients for success–technology so cutting-edge it’s barely decipherable, a world-class board of directors whose credentials command a lemming-like public following, and carefully orchestrated Street buzz of epic proportions.
Jubal Thurgren, assistant director of enforcement for the Security and Exchange Commission, smells a rat. Even as the buzz increases, Thurgren’s instincts tell him that Artemis-5 may not be quite what Hanley has cracked it up to be. As public delirium over Artemis-5’s impending stock offering escalates, Hanley and Thurgren, each with a spy in the other’s camp, launch elaborate and progressively more dangerous cat-and-mouse games. Thurgren can’t let Hanley continue unchallenged, and Hanley can’t let Thurgren get in the way of his plans.« less