HARDCORE SCI-FI meets HIGH FINANCE in a story about capital in the 21st century... about money that believes it MUST GO ON.

Much of WALL STREET left its downtown namesake long ago, when its idea was replanted into the fat midsection of Manhattan. Here the hopeful and the anxious have been gathered into an awesome office-mass - one that is forever looking to make money from the idea of money itself.

Among this throng is the ANALYST - a speculator who has made a bad bet and lost too much of a client's capital. The analyst has been wound down and let go. The regular sources of capital are no longer available and so an unusual backer has to be found – a continental gentleman named LEFEVRE.

Lefevre offers a generous salary and full carry. But his contract contains strange stipulations, while he insists on calling himself a quantitative, claiming he MANAGES HIS MONEY USING MATH ALONE. Whereas the analyst is an old-fashioned student of common stocks. What use can someone like that be to a man like Lefevre?

THE GREAT GAMBLER is a three-act novel set at the black edge of Wall Street – part econ-blog con theory, part boiler-room gas.

As the analyst entangles with Lefevre, the story pulls in its other characters: a ghostwriter, a TV interrogator, a minor oligarch and - finally - a woman who has never lost a game of chance, and who was once known to the underground as THE GREAT GAMBLER.