Bad Business: A Novel - Softcover

Goldstone is former head currency trader at a major investment bank and author of the humorous memoir Trading Up: Surviving Success As a Woman Trader on Wall Street ( LJ 3/1/88). Her hilarious first novel satirizes the workings of the U.S. government and high finance. The tumultuous plot is improbable but captivating even for nonfinanciers. Julie Wilson, a wet-behind-the-ears account executive for a major ad agency, persuades the dour Secretary of the Treasury to upgrade his department's public image with a prime-time television commercial. Her plan works, and Julie's career skyrockets--but its success destroys a U.S. Congressman's controversial plan to ban the import of Japanese cars and imperils the future of her fiance's banking firm. Goldstone has an insider's grasp of finance and international economics and a deft touch with comic narrative.
- Joyce Smothers, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Former options trader Goldstone's amusing but superficial satire of big money, Washington politics and Madison Avenue machinations was a BOMC featured alternate. Author tour.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.