Currency
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Wood's First Novel -- Gripping, Timely & Telling
In Currency, Wood has pulled off a first novel that captures the reader with a page-turning adventure, while it addresses head-on the most pressing and intense global economic, military and political issues of our very challenging current times.Wood's real world experience on both Wall Street and at the center of the US Military Special Operations world, combine with his love of history and command of current global issues, to create a story that is as intense and gripping as it is timely.Currency weaves the historical adventures of our US Founding Fathers who built the country's early economic structure, with current day hero Connor Murray. Connor unexpectedly finds himself thrust into a world shaped as much by greed, betrayal and violence as it by heroism, loyalty, love and the quest for personal peace.Fate forces Murray to navigate events that play out on the world stage. The United States' current economic weakness collides with its...
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Think carefully about the characters in this novel...
Wood's novel creates a cast of credible present-day characters to join the historical figures who set his stage... their actions hint at the true financial and strategic moves being made behind the scenes of world power today. Think carefully about their individual incentives, and whether their real life counterparts would be any different. The global monetary system is hurtling towards a crisis, and "Currency" delivers a gripping narrative of how things could play out. Will the US be saved, or will its bag of tricks finally turn up empty?
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Product Description
It is said that if you don’t know history, you are doomed to repeat it. Currency, combines multiple historical strands that converge on the number one issue of our time, the geographic location of economic and military power in the 21st century. Economic Thriller! An incredible story of power, romance, revenge and international finance spanning three centuries. The issues could not be more timely! Top to learn more
Great First Book From Promising Author
When Captain Kidd, Alexander Hamilton and the 2015 president of the United States are all characters in the same novel, two things are certain: there is bound to be treasure involved and someone's going to get hurt.Sure enough, both happen in "Currency," the first novel of L. Todd Wood. Wood brings his investing knowledge to the writing of this historical novel of treachery and murder during the early days of the United States, and the long shadow they cast into the future.According to this story, when Hamilton and Aaron Burr engaged in their duel, which Burr so famously won, Hamilton went to his death without revealing the location where he had secreted the treasury of the United States. He did, however leave a clue to the location, which he had engraved inconspicuously on his own tomb. It remains for a modern-day treasure hunter to unravel the mystery and locate the treasure.In addition to the historical characters, the book contains modern-day treasure...
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