Shakedown
by Martin Bodenham
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Pub Date Nov 13 2017 | Archive Date Nov 20 2017
Description
Damon Traynor leaves a glittering career on Wall Street to set up his own private equity business. When it is the winning bidder in the multi-billion dollar auction for a government-owned defense company, his firm’s future success looks certain.
But soon after the deal closes, Damon makes an alarming discovery—something that makes the recent acquisition worthless. Then he learns he was duped by the financially-strapped federal administration and that there are many others in the same position. Facing financial ruin, he investigates the US treasury officials behind the transaction.
What Damon uncovers is a terrifying web of organized crime—extending all the way to the White House itself—involving blackmail and assassination on an industrial scale. When those around him begin to die, Damon finds himself locked in a deadly battle with the leader of the free world.
Advance Praise
“Bodenham’s unique insight into the world of high finance has created another authentic financial thriller.” —Howard Leigh, Lord Leigh of Hurley
“On the money. Finance and politics mixed into a thrilling, deadly cocktail.” —Derek Thompson, author of the Spy Chaser thriller series
“Martin Bodenham, a former private equity fund manager, has hit gold with Shakedown, a riveting thriller about the high risks in high finance.” —Jerry Kennealy, author of the Nick Polo mystery series
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781946502131 |
| PRICE | $18.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Librarian 36076
The United States has a huge debt load which has continued growing with no real attempt by the government to control and reduce it. Martin Bodenham describes a near future action by the US president to take hold of and control the debt. His novel, "The Shakedown" is a riveting account of this attempt.
Damon Traynor, an individual who has already had a glittering career on Wall Street has set up, with the aid of partners, a private equity business. His firm is offered a chance to bid upon a government owned defense company. This is part of the president's scheme to control and fix the runaway national debt by selling off government assets. Traynor's firm is successful in the bid and buys one of these companies. It looks like the operation will skyrocket the growth of his private equity business. But Traynor is contacted by an executive of the company he bought. The man has been let go by the firm and wants to talk to Traynor to tell him that the system developed by that company doesn't work. Damon cannot bring himself to sell that company until he ascertains that the system evolved by them is viable.
An investigation into the allegations gets Traynor into a world he never expected to be in. It is a world populated by criminals that utilize assassinations and blackmail as every day tools and appears to include high level government individuals. The descriptions of the inside world of private equity funds is an education in itself and explained in easily understood terms.
A very well done novel involving the investments of billions of dollars the people doing the investments.
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