PAUL ERDMAN

I have placed "sizzler ratings" next to books read, even if the review hasn't been added at this time.

The billion dollar sure thing		The Palace
The Silver Bears		The Swiss Account
The Crash of '79		Zero Coupon
The Last Day of America		The Set-Up
The Panic of '89

THE SET-UP (1997)

Sub-category: Global Finance
The plot: Former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserves, Charles Black, is arrested when entering Switzerland for an obligatory top secret meeting of global financial leaders. Evidence is presented to suggest he has used the inside knowledge his former position gave him to create unspeakable wealth for him and his wife upon retirement. Black knows he is innocent, but the disclosure of his possible use of insider knowledge causes all his allies to desert him and leave him to uncover the truth by himself.
Comment: This novels starts off with a flying leap into the giddy world of selling and buying derivatives, shorts and longs and then grinds to a hault about a third of the way in... From there until just before the end, the book kind of dawdles along, feeling almost '70's' in its style and leaving you wondering what happened to the fast pace at the start. However, the book picks up towards the end for a satisfactory dash for finish.
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