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Ballantine, Jan 2002, 24.95, 352 pp.
ISBN: 0345443241
In Northern Virginia, Russell Lake informs employee Augustus McKnight that he monitors computer usage and is well aware of the latter's personal day trading over company equipment. Russell informs Augustus that he expects to be handed over half the earnings of last night's investment or be fired from his job analyzing paper product sales in Maryland supermarkets. Not long afterward, Russell's wife Mel informs him she wants a divorce as she has found someone else, her boss Frank Taylor. He injures her wrist and she scratches his neck.
Augustus makes a nine-fold profit from his one day ten thousand dollar investment. However, the murder of Mel leaves Russell wealthy as the beneficiary of her million-dollar life insurance policy and enables him to become a full time day trader. At night, Augustus looks into Mel's violent death and uncovers a shocker that his wife worked at a mob operated strip joint. As he gets closer to the truth, Augustus may have placed himself in danger.
THE DAY TRADER is an exciting amateur sleuth novel that is not a financial thriller as the tale only uses day trading in a minor side role. The story line jumps from scene to scene so that the audience never quite gets its footing fully into the plot, yet readers will continue on because of the non-stop action. Stephen Frey provides an exhilarating murder mystery for those readers who delight in hopping from one action scenario to anther.
Harriet Klausner
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Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar
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Plot
How difficult to spot villain?
- Very difficult--no foreshadowing/clues
Time/era of story:
- 1980's-1999
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 60%
Kind of investigator
- amateur citizen investigator
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Crime Thriller
Yes
Murder Mystery (killer unknown)
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age:
- 40's-50's
How much violence does he/she use?
- a little
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- business executive
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
Motive of antagonist
- power
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Southeast
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Amount of dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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