A great page turner with a message. Felix Riley keeps you gripped as his hero battles against the financial sector and the forces of law and order. Flashes of humour and a novel explanation of a Ponzi scheme made this a book I could not put down. When is the next one out?

The US Secret Service was formed to battle counterfeiting and then evolved into the service it is today. Mike Byrne is a former Secret Service agent who worked on the financial side for the Service, and he is chasing the First Bank of America for money lost by his mother as part of the Bernard Madoff scam. When he is framed for the murder of top First Bank executives he ends up on the run from the Police, the Secret Service and Russian heavies. He realises that his framing is part of a massive conspiracy and the target may well be the President. Here we have a very fast paced thriller blended with a financial overlay and a sense of fun. It doesn’t take itself too seriously which allows the reader to also overlook minor inconsistencies and one or two caricature bad guys. But the light touch does not detract from some real messages here about how easy it is to manipulate the market and the regulators and is very much based on real events that are explained very well and are scary in their simplicity. So it’s just a fun book and a welcome debut.