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22) Tower heist
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Queens native Josh Kovacs has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh's building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage. They hire...
23) Black Fridays
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Struggling to rebuild his life after a two-year prison term for unscrupulous choices, former Wall Street hotshot Jason Stafford is tapped by an investment firm to investigate the suspicious death of a junior trader.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It's summer in New York City and Faye Walker has it all. She's not only scored one of the most highly coveted internships in all of Wall Street, she's also just met the head-over-heels love of her life. With her natural-born gift for numbers and a work ethic that knows no bounds, Faye is a shoo-in for a full-time position at the illustrious merchant bank Greene Brothers Hale. Then, just as she awaits her offer and her signing bonus, a treacherous...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Following a lengthy prison term, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside looking in at a world he once commanded. Hoping to repair his relationship with his daughter, Winnie, Gekko forges an alliance with her fiancae, Jake. But Winnie and Jake learn the hard way that Gekko is still a master manipulator who will stop at nothing to reclaim his rightful place at the top of Wall Street.
28) American psycho
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is a Wall Street yuppie, obsessed with success, status and style, with a stunning fiancée (Reese Witherspoon). He is also a psychotic killer who rapes, murders and dismembers both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or purpose.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
David Mitchell, fast-rising portfolio manager at the exclusive Sagamore Investment Managing Group, has just been handed his future on a golden platter. If all goes according to plan, a struggling plane-manufacturing company will win a coveted government defense contract...and David himself will become very, very rich. Gaining the trust of IRS agent Jesse Hayes is a crucial part of the scheme. But the unwitting recruit has troubles of her own. Her...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Tommy Quinn, a recent Georgetown grad has just landed a job as an investment banker and a troubled trust fund heiress girlfriend. He and his friend Roger Thorne enjoy a life of privilege, but he discovers things aren't as wonderful as he imagined.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"1980s Manhattan shimmers like the mirage it was, as money, power, and invincibility seduce a group of young Wall Street turks. Together they reach the pinnacle, achieving the kind of wealth that grants them access to anything--and anyone--they want. Until, one by one, they fall."--From publisher.
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Jim is an average New Yorker living a peaceful life with a well-paying job and a loving family. Suddenly, everything changes when the economy crashes, resulting in Jim losing his job, home, and wife. Filled with rage, Jim snaps and goes to extreme measures to seek revenge for the life taken from him.
34) Lehman trilogy
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A "novel in verse that inspired the ... West End and Off-Broadway play of the same name, [this book] follows the epic rise and fall of three generations of [the Lehman] family and through them tells the story of American ambition and hubris"--Publisher marketing.
35) Too big to fail
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.
36) Wall Street
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In this riveting, behind-the-scenes look at big business in the 1980s, an ambitious young broker is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage when he is seduced by the power, status, and financial wizardry of Wall Street legend Gordon Gekko. But he soon discovers that the pursuit of overnight riches comes at a price that's too high to pay.
37) Wall Street
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An ambitious young Wall Street broker is lured into the illegal world of corporate espionage and insider trading as he pursues the favors of the powerful and wealthy financier, Gordon Gekko.
38) American psycho
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything, including murder. Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films, released Spring 2000, starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). In American...