As a senior editor on Barron's periodical, the author knows in detail how to promote a desperate financial scheme behind the scenes in fascinating and hair- raising detail. "My dear Ben, never trust a friend", was Jack Canning's advice to his partner Ben McCarthy; then Jack disappears. Ben finds he is in desperate trouble; his firm is being investigated; he and his wife Martha, and others,
become pawns in a desperate game to save his reputation from ruin and defy the odds that you can't beat Wall Street.
become pawns in a desperate game to save his reputation from ruin and defy the odds that you can't beat Wall Street.
