Publisher Just Approved my Wall Street Novel!!! - how many of you would actually read this shit?

So I wrote this novel a while back and sent a couple chapters to this publisher a year ago and they finally got back to me and said they'd love to see the rest of it and asked me to send it in for possible publishing and wanted to work out the contract.

Anyhow, the novel is about a bulge bracket investment bank indicted on a $4Bn investment fraud and the CEO decides to murder and take on the identity of a congressional intern on the day of his Senate hearing, sneaking out the back and into a waiting helicopter.

The story follows 3 years of how he survives alone traveling the world, evading cops, authorities, the Mafia, hitmen hired by families he conned and at the very last minute before his death, how he manages to redeem himself.

The book isn't THAT technical so if you were looking for something similar to Margin Call, this ain't it. The technical geeky quant/finance stuff ends in the first 2 chapters and the rest of the novel is played out in Jason Bourne fashion.

How many of you would actually read something like this? Just wondering if you guys in the high finance community would find something like this lame or cool. The publishers aren't really the finance types and have no idea if it's marketable with banking professionals...i dont want it to pop out and have a bunch of 16 year old boys saying "TOTALLY COOL!!!" while all the finance professionals are ranting about it on Amazon saying how it's "so fucking unrealistic" or "it's an embarrassment to investment banking" or even worse, "This book is about a bunch of nerdy math geeks from ivy league schools acting like they're James Bond"...you get the idea. still got time to edit!

 
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WallStLikeHomeDepotCauseItsFullofFuckingTools:
The story follows 3 years of how he survives alone traveling the world, evading cops, authorities, the Mafia, hitmen hired by families he conned
WallStLikeHomeDepotCauseItsFullofFuckingTools:
quant/finance stuff ends in the first 2 chapters and the rest of the novel is played out in Jason Bourne fashion.
WallStLikeHomeDepotCauseItsFullofFuckingTools:
no idea if it's marketable with banking professionals...i dont want it to pop out and have a bunch of 16 year old boys saying "TOTALLY COOL!!!" while all the finance professionals are ranting about it on Amazon saying how it's "so fucking unrealistic" or "it's an embarrassment to investment banking"

How does this even relate to banking? Sounds way too generic, no way I would read it.

From the looks of it, this might as well be a fireman/ criminal/ lawyer that's involved in some kind of fraud - and then is on the run for 3 years in "Jason Bourne fashion".

 

That sounds like a mix of "Wolf of Wall St" and "Jason Bourne". Not sure how marketable those are to grown up financiers but would it be that bad if it caught on with 15-20 yr olds? It sounds like an exciting read for a younger audience rather than one that has already been through these stages and knows that it is practically never like this. Example: people watch Cops/White Collar/all those other shows and want to be like "insert cool character here". It stimulates the imagination and desire. The hunger. So don't worry if it's not a hit with an older, mature audience. It doesn't have to be.

"You stop being an asshole when it sucks to be you." - IlliniProgrammer
 
tchekm845:
so...how does a CEO (assuming old man) take on the identity of an intern without being noticed.... or am I not reading it right?

Undercover Boss?!

I hate victims who respect their executioners
 

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