Book Description
How much money is too much? And how fast is too fast in life? Investment star Paris Smith steps onto the top rungs of the corporate ladder, only to discover he is caught between his need for fulfillment and his need for understanding, between his drive for power and his inability to cope with his growing emptiness where there was once love. When his wife disappears from the core of his life, Smith s loneliness and sense of disconnection threaten to overwhelm him. When he tries to compensate by losing himself in his work, he stumbles off the treadmill of his own success, and is entangled in the web of a fraudulent bond deal that threatens to derail his career and his life. Forced to put his personal life on hold while he travels non-stop between Toronto, Singapore, and Bangkok to salvage his career, the embattled financier is deprived of the time and space he needs to mourn the absence of his wife and to objectively assess his future options. In the heat, turmoil and fast money of Southeast Asia half a world from home and half a life from his last remembered smile Paris Smith finds duplicity, comradeship, and power. He also finds a special woman who might heal his heart.
My thoughts
In “Coming for Money” author F.W. Vom Scheidt uses his experiences as an international investment banker to bring us a story of versatile individuals in the international banking industry. Paris Smith is an investment broker who travels around the world and back to protect and close a multi-billion dollar bond deal. Trying to save his career while coping with the sudden death of his wife, his integrity is challenged as there are deceitful and devious people working against him. This book is a fast paced, emotional trip.
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