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These are the new go-go years, the eighties, and money is
plentiful—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. Billions of
dollars disappear from the Vatican Bank, and the bank chairman, Roberto Calvi,
is found “suicided” under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in 1982.
At the time, Meg is an aspiring actress, married to
Dick, a struggling director, and living over a deli in a tenement on the upper
eastside. What she dreams of is being married to a filthy rich man and shopping at
couture salons on Madison Avenue. Becky is writing a novel, living in Sand’s
Point on Long Island, married to Kevin, a successful money market broker on Wall
Street. She has everything a woman could want, but love. Alex is a middle-aged
playboy who owns several businesses in town, drives a sports car and
fantasizes about both of these women— but he’s married. They are all married. None happily.
Is money the cause of all unhappiness—too little, too much, never enough—and is
it the root of all evil? Meg, Becky, and Alex never suspect what is really
going on and where they will ultimately end up. Can they manipulate destiny?
A novel of fast money, easy money, love, sex,
betrayal, international scandal, embezzlement, and murder. Hurrah's Nest is a modern story of the
profound and deadly effects of deception.
BARBARA KENNEDY is a former money market broker and
bond trader on Wall Street. A graduate of New York Medical College
she is a prominent public health educator and relationship coach in Scottsdale,
Arizona. She is the author of Baby Boomer Men Looking for Love.
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Having reviewed several books by
Barbara Kennedy, I have learned to expect the unexpected
and was not disappointed in reading Hurrah's Nest, an
unstructured narrative. She is a master of words,
expressing what readers seek in a story--meaningful,
dramatic, and pragmatic description that puts readers
right in the middle of the storyline. They are there but
nowhere is the author seen--an accomplishment that many
authors fail to achieve.
Readers will get to know the three main characters
intimately, learning how their lives are entangled even
as they interact with others. There is a published novel
by Becky that Alex reads in which he sees himself in the
story, crying as he grieves over his own past mistakes.
But it is the ending of this story that I didn't expect.
I should have been prepared but wasn't; this doesn't
happen to me very often--surprise endings! I give this
work of fiction my highest recommendation.
Bettie Corbin Tucker
For Independent Professional Book Reviewers
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