Sands Point - Memoirs of a Money Trader

These are the new go-go years, the eighties, and money is plentiful&mdash;custom-made designer clothes, champagne cocktails at Windows on the World, limousines lined up in front of the trendiest restaurants and private clubs along Park Avenue. The WTC is a beacon and venue for money traders. The US dollar is strong and cash, as always, is king. It is a decade of fast cars, fast markets, and fast talkers. And then the music stops. The yield curve is inverted, S&Ls are insolvent, OPEC is a dangerous cabal, Petrodollars and Eurodollars are flooding the financial markets, and countries are defaulting on loans.<br><br>Billions of dollars disappear from the Vatican Bank, and the bank chairman, Roberto Calvi, is found &quot;suicided&quot; under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in 1982.<br><br>Meg is an aspiring actress, married to Dick, a struggling director. They live over a deli in a walk-up tenement on the eastside. What she dreams of is being married to a filthy rich man and shopping at couture salons on Madison Ave. <br><br>Becky is writing a novel, living in Sands Point on Long Island, married to Kevin, a successful money market broker on Wall Street pre-9/11. She has everything a woman could want, except love. <br><br>Alex is a middle-aged playboy who owns several businesses in town, drives a sports car and fantasizes about both of these women&mdash;but he&#39;s married. <br><br>They are all married. None happily. <br><br>Is money the cause of all unhappiness&mdash;too little, too much, never enough&mdash;and is it the root of all evil?<br><br>Meg, Becky, and Alex never suspect what is really going on and where they will ultimately end up. Can money manipulate their destinies? Or, is it fate?<br><br>A novel of fast money, easy money, love, sex, betrayal, international scandal, embezzlement, and murder. <br><br>A modern story of the profound and deadly effects of deception.