Just Call Me Gatsby

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>Like the classic American capitalist Christopher Gatsby Brooks believes in the power of illusions. His seemingly deep pockets have made him preeminent in the business world and conspicuously wealthy. But when Shirley Frazier a management consultant discovers a substantial portion of Gatsby's income was derived from selling millions of dollars in unregistered (possibly illegal) securities her confrontation with Gatsby sets off a dangerous cascade of events that could culminate in Gatsby's demise-or set the stage for his ultimate success.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>With prosecutors pursuing the case and a dead body connected to his dissembling Gatsby risks everything on another secretive gamble: a new venture fund that will depend on his raising $100 million before Shirley and the legal assassins kill his reputation. As Gatsby puts his plan in motion several of his major investors demand he repay millions of dollars in securities-money he doesn't have. And his wife Miriam (Claire to his Frank Underwood if you are a House of Cards fan) decides to take matters into her own hands.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>Just Call Me Gatsby</em><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))> explores the sometimes-contradictory forms of power that run the world: money charm trust and the betrayal of that trust. The novel will appeal to a wide range of fiction readers including fans of F. Scott Fitzgerald's </span><em style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>The Great Gatsby</em><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))> Norb Vonnegut's </span><em style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>The Trust</em><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))> Joseph Finder's Paranoia and Christina Alger's </span><em style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>The Darlings</em><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>Those who like entrepreneurial or business-related novels such as Louis Auchinclass' </span><em style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>The Embezzler</em><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))> Philip Roth's </span><em style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>American Pastoral</em><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))> and Thomas Wolfe's </span><em style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>A Man in Full</em><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))> will also enjoy this suspenseful story about the scheming that blurs the lines between wealth and the illusion thereof.</span></p><p></p>