The StreetThe Street
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Book, 2001
Current format, Book, 2001, 1st ed, All copies in use.Book, 2001
Current format, Book, 2001, 1st ed, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsJames Vincent Hanley, a Wall Street stockbroker specializing in Internet start-ups and unhappily slaving away for a subsistence wage of only $300,000, makes the jump to the other side of the Street and into the biggest game in history. He's done his dot-com homework and launches his own start-up, Artemis-5.com, with the key ingredients for success - technology so cutting-edge it's barely decipherable, a world-class board of directors whose credentials command a lemming-like public following, and carefully orchestrated Street buzz of epic proportions.
Jubal Thurgren, assistant director of enforcement for the Security and Exchange Commission and a man of Columbo-like intelligence and personality, smells a rat. Even as the buzz increases, Thurgren's instincts tell him that Artemis-5, which has yet to reveal any substantive products or services, may not be quite what Hanley has cracked it up to be. As public delirium over Artemis-5's impending stock offering escalates, Hanley and Thurgren, each with a spy in the other's camp, launch elaborate and progressively more dangerous cat-and-mouse games. Each of them is deeply committed to his own cause: Thurgren can't let Hanley continue unchallenged, and Hanley can't let Thurgren get in the way of his plans. The two of them spiral inexorably toward a final confrontation, a complex and explosive sting where deceit and betrayal do suspenseful battle with old-fashioned idealism and the search for truth.
Tired of his life as a Wall Street stockbroker specializing in Internet start-ups, James Vincent Hanley launches his own start-up, Artemis-5.com, with a fanfare of investment buzz, until Jubal Thugren, assistant director of enforcement for the SEC, begins to become suspicious, and the two rivals embark on a dangerous high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse.
James Vincent Hanley launches an Internet start-up, Artemis-5.com, with a fanfare of investment buzz, but when the SEC's Jubal Thugren becomes suspicious, the two rivals embark on a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse.
Jubal Thurgren, assistant director of enforcement for the Security and Exchange Commission and a man of Columbo-like intelligence and personality, smells a rat. Even as the buzz increases, Thurgren's instincts tell him that Artemis-5, which has yet to reveal any substantive products or services, may not be quite what Hanley has cracked it up to be. As public delirium over Artemis-5's impending stock offering escalates, Hanley and Thurgren, each with a spy in the other's camp, launch elaborate and progressively more dangerous cat-and-mouse games. Each of them is deeply committed to his own cause: Thurgren can't let Hanley continue unchallenged, and Hanley can't let Thurgren get in the way of his plans. The two of them spiral inexorably toward a final confrontation, a complex and explosive sting where deceit and betrayal do suspenseful battle with old-fashioned idealism and the search for truth.
Tired of his life as a Wall Street stockbroker specializing in Internet start-ups, James Vincent Hanley launches his own start-up, Artemis-5.com, with a fanfare of investment buzz, until Jubal Thugren, assistant director of enforcement for the SEC, begins to become suspicious, and the two rivals embark on a dangerous high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse.
James Vincent Hanley launches an Internet start-up, Artemis-5.com, with a fanfare of investment buzz, but when the SEC's Jubal Thugren becomes suspicious, the two rivals embark on a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse.
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