Review: A decent read, likable main character - could use substantial editing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 31, 2014
All in all a well written and enjoyable book. The hero is a stockbroker! Who would have thunk it?One of his favorite clients dies unexpectedly a week after marrying a gold-digger.  It turns out the investment account came from mob money and Matt, the stockbroker, is being pursued to return the funds. Plus of course the gold-digger comes after him for refund of commissions and damages.How Matt resolves his problems with the mob and the gold-dgger, and also works toward getting over some personal tragedies, is the story and somewhat enjoyable.A few annoyances -  1. The country in South America is Colombia, spelled with two "O"s. The author fell into the practice of spelling the country like the university in New York, Columbia. Amazon will let the author make this correction at no cost for future readers and usually will allow owners of copies to download a corrected version.2. There are entirely too many irrelevant mini-details. Such as - Matt is having lunch with his investigator and the author described an interruption by the waiter and lets us know that Matt ordered coffee. This annoyance adds zilch to the story. There are a lot more, especially restaurant and bar details. The bartender's response when the investigator ordered a glass of wine? Really?3. Plot fault 1 - NASD would not have seized all  his records and files based on just an allegation/complaint. At most they would have performed a "data copy" of his digital records and photocopies of his paper files.4. Plot fault 2 - When the mob insisted that he obtain the deceased client's portfolio, Matt merely had to give them the name, address and contact number of the gold-digger and her lawyer5. Remember Elmore Leonard's rules for writers, especially "Leave out the parts that readers skip over". Matt's dreams and his discussions with his therapist got wearisome. Enough already!6. Did Janet, the gold-digger, every get the estate? The last 20% or so of the book I was skipping chapters and may have missed that part of the resolution.