The Great Gambler

<p><strong>HARD_SCI-FI takes on HIGH_FINANCE at the black edge of WALL_STREET... where capital emerges from human yearning and declares it MUST GO ON.</strong></p><p>The ANALYST is a speculator in the ticker market a picker of common stocks who makes a farcical bet and loses too much money... even the firm with the name on the door. The regular investors are no longer interested so a new backer must be found - a continental gentleman named LEFEVRE.</p><p>Lefevre offers a generous salary and full carry too. But his contract contains strange stipulations. Moreover he insists on calling himself a quantitative claiming he MANAGES HIS MONEY USING MATH ALONE. Lefevre's methods have already made him a fortune. What use could the analyst be to a man like him?</p><p><strong>Michael Lewis meets China Mieville in this radical work of SCI_FINANCE - part econ-blog con-theory part boiler-room gas.</strong></p>