Title: House of Cards: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Author: Theodore Jerome Cohen
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 9781432779801
Pages: 270, Paperback/Kindle
Genre: Mystery/Fiction
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Synopsis
"House of Cards: Dead Men Tell No Tales," a murder mystery, is based on real events. It is the story of how the major banks and hedge funds in this country created, marketed, and sold junk mortgage-back securities to unsuspecting customers while, at the same time, offloading their risks through the purchase of ‘insurance’ from a major Wall Street insurance firm. When the head of the sixth largest investment banking and securities firm in the United States is assassinated on Times Square in the middle of New York City’s annual Festival of the Dead, Homicide Detective Louis Martelli is one of the first on the scene. Working quickly, NYPD Information Specialist missy Dugan rapidly identifies the assassin, but the case rapidly spirals downward into a maelstrom of death and intrigue linked both to the financial meltdown of 2008 and international terrorism. Who was behind the murders, and why did the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) attempt to shut down Martelli’s investigation before it even got started? Martelli eventually learns the answers to these and other questions as he tracks down the killer, but not before uncovering some of Wall Street’s darkest secrets, including a plot by two institutions to fund Islamic terrorism.
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About the Author
Theodore J. Cohen, PhD, holds three degrees in the physical sciences from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has been an engineer and scientist for more than 40 years. He has been an investor for more than 50 years, and most recently, has focused on investigating and reporting on corruption in US financial institutions and agencies of the US government. His most recent novel, House of Cards: Dead Men Tell No Tales, is based on real events related to the 2008 financial crisis precipitated by the housing bubble. An earlier novel of the same genre, Death by Wall Street: Rampage of the Bulls, focused on corruption within the food and Drug Administration (FDA)) and the incompetence of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). From December 1961 through early March 1962, Dr. Cohen participated in the 16th Chilean Expedition to the Antarctic. The US Board of Geographic Names in October, 1964, named the geographical feature Cohen Islands, located at 63° 18' S. latitude, 57° 53' W. longitude in the Cape Legoupil area, Antarctica, in his honor. Dr. Cohen's Antarctic Murders Trilogy describes what happened following a robbery of the Banco Central de Chile in Talcahuano in May, 1960. The robbery and the events that took place primarily between May 1960 and March 1962, are described in Frozen in Time: Murder at the Bottom of the World (Book I). Unfinished Business: Pursuit of an Antarctic Killer (Book II) reveals the events that unfolded between March 1962 and March 1965. End Game: Irrational Acts, Tragic Consequences (Book III) takes place in 1965 and resolves most—but not all—of the issues raised in the series. Dr. Cohen's first novel, Full Circle: A Dream Denied, A Vision Fulfilled, which is based on life as a violinist, was published in 2009. Dr. Cohen is a violinist in the Bryn Athyn (PA) Orchestra and particularly enjoys the music of Gustav Mahler. Finally, Dr. Cohen has published more than 350 papers, articles, columns, essays, and interviews, and is a co-author of The NEW Shortwave Propagation Handbook (from CQ Communications). For more information on Dr. Cohen and his novels, the interested reader is invited to view the book descriptions, photographs, and videos that can be found at: www.theodore-cohen-novels.com
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