The one good client he ever had was a small but very successful accounting firm that specialized in mergers and acquisitions. They hadn't used Ned for long, just long enough for him to realize they were involved in deals that, once they hit the newspapers, would affect the stock price of one or two publicly traded companies. Penny-ante, bulletin-board stocks, but in some ways that was even better—a small jump in price could represent a big percentage gain on an investment. If he could only tap into their files and find out what they were working on ...