Matthew Klein – författare

How far will one man go for a second chance?Timothy Van Bender lives a magical life: his business is doing well; he has a beautiful and charming wife, Katherine; and his young sexy secretary, Tricia, greets him each morning with a flirtatious smile.Then, one Tuesday, everything changes. Timothy wakes to learn that his hedge fund has lost $24 million on a bad bet against the Japanese Yen. Timothy decides to double down and bet again. But the Yen keeps climbing, and his business investors start asking questions. With his company on the brink of collapse, he gets a call from his wife, who phones to say goodbye, moments before jumping off a cliff to her death. Timothy can''t believe it - and nor, for that matter, can the local police.And that''s when his troubles start. As the police investigate Timothy, he investigates his dead wife''s secrets. But when Tricia shows up on the doorstep, claiming to be his dead wife, and knowing secrets that only Katherine could know, Timothy''s not sure what to believe. Has he been given a second chance at happiness or is he being played for a fool in an elaborate scam that may cost him his life?

A terrific novel of scams, double-bluffs - and incredible suspenseKip Largo has recently emerged from a jail term for security fraud. He used to be a master conman, but now he''s trying to go straight, working at a dry cleaner''s while running an internet vitamin business on the side. But when Lauren Napier, the wife of a big Las Vegas businessman, comes to him with a proposition to steal $20 million of her husband Ed Napier''s money, Kip can''t resist the prospect of an artful con.He recruits some friends: Jessica, a stripper turned porn producer, his wayward son, Toby and Peter, a brilliant college hacker. They convince Napier that they''ve developed software that predicts stock prices, and with the smell of so much money in the air, Napier can''t wait to invest. But things don''t go to plan: it quickly emerges that someone on the inside is feeding information to another party. The con''s in tatters, and Kip must fight to keep himself - and his son - alive.