Clawback

The mission began innocently enough (as innocently as vigilante financial justice usually does)-contracted by a hedge fund manager to pay a visit to an investor, Silas's job is to demand clawback from his target (a form of sanctioned payback deployed by powerful corporations). But then the hedge fund manager who ordered the job turns up dead, and it quickly becomes clear that this is not the murderer's first kill. Silas-with the aid of a young, beautiful investigative journalist named Clara Dawson-quickly learns that someone is killing off greedy investment bankers all over the city. His next assignment? Figure out who's killing the bankers-and try to stop them.

There's no shortage of suspects, and he can't seem to figure out whether it's an inside job or a victim of just-legal financial shenanigans taking justice into their own hands. Meanwhile, amped-up, newly-armed bankers across New York begin bringing glocks to the trading floor, convinced that a Marxist conspiracy is brewing a plot to make them pay for their role in the crash of 2008. Even more curious, someone on the street is trading off the killings for profit just a little too close on the heels of his colleagues' demises.

A break-neck, action packed thriller told in Silas's wry, brash, and world-weary voice, CLAWBACK will hook readers still clamoring for tales of the Wall Street underbelly told in the voice of a master novelist.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mike Cooper is the pseudonym of a former jack-of-all-trades. Under a different name his work has received wide recognition, including a Shamus Award, a Thriller nomination, and inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories 2010.

"Cooper, a former financial executive, vividly renders a gossip-fueled world where self-important one-percenters begin to carry guns to protect themselves from murderous ‘peasants,' anarchists, and jihadists. CLAWBACK has intriguing characters, knowing insights into the Wall Street demimonde, a blistering pace, lots of action, and some over-the-top derring-do that may attract Hollywood. And the scene in which overwrought corporate raiders wildly open fire on each other in a hotel banquet room will thrill crime-fiction-loving ‘peasants' afflicted with schadenfreude toward the masters of the financial casino that continues to cause so much hardship."

-Booklist, starred review

"There's much snappy, half-cynical repartee reminiscent of 1930s Hollywood cinema, including snarks about the necessity of gun control, and a firefight aboard a mega-yacht followed by a jet ski-Zodiac water pursuit. Cooper sets the action in New York City, a locale he has down pat, from neighborhood diners to the only place it's legal to live on your boat...Arm a Hollywood hero with a Beretta and disposable cell, point him at a Gordon Gekko-type, and this book's big screen ready."

-Kirkus