| Reckless | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Andrew Gross |
| Country | United States United Kingdom |
| Publisher | William Morrow an Imprint of Harper Collins |
| Pages | 496 |
| ISBN | 9780061655951 |
| Preceded by | Don't Look Twice |
| Followed by | Eyes Wide Open |
'Reckless' is the fourth book from Andrew Gross. Reckless debuted on the NY Times Bestsellers list the week of May 23, 2010.[1] Reckless is the third in his series with investigator Ty Hauck, hero of The Dark Tide and Don’t Look Twice. Hauck follows the threads of a brutal murder of a Connecticut family into a conspiracy that directly reflects the state of the world financial markets and the axiom of “too big to fail.”[2]
Reckless is set in circa 2009 Greenwich CT in the post Maddoff[3] era. The story portrays the financial industry in the aftermath of Great Recession and the subprime mortgage crisis.[4]
Ty Hauck learns of the murder of a close personal friend April Glassman along with her husband Marc and their daughter.[5] The murder was clearly meant to look like a recent string of home invasions, but very little about this murder parallels the other home invasions.[6] The murder of Marc Glassman a trader at a major brokerage has an immediate and dramatic effect on world financial markets. Coincidentally, Marc Glassman had gone out of his way to violate company policy dramatically over leverage his positions. His murder brings down one of Wall Streets oldest and most respected brokerages.[7]
Hauck has started a new job with Talon a security firm whose largest client is Reynolds Ried, “a Wall Street icon.”[8] Merrill Simons’s, the ex-wife of Reynolds Rieds' CEO, hires Hauck to check up on her suspicions about her new love interest Dani Thibault.[9] As Hauck investigates Thibault he begins to see clues that connect Thibault to the murder of Marc Glassman and the apparent suicide of James Donovan,[10] another over extended trader from a different firm.
In Washington, Treasury agent Naomi Blum watches millions of dollars in suspicious bank transfers. Her trail leads her to following the same trail as Hauck.[11]
Hauck and Blum team up to unravel evidence that all connects back to Dani Thibault. Their search takes them to Serbia[12] and leads back to London[13] to find Marty al-Bashir the chief investment officer of the Royal Saudi Partnership. As witness are quickly quieted in a string of murders, the trail leads all the way back to the Secretary of the Treasury in Washington and Peter Simons the CEO of Reynold's Reid.[14]