The Day Trader

The Story

ôFAST-PACED . . . A TALE OF MARKET MISDEEDS AND MURDER.öûThe New York TimesAugustus McKnight senses his dead-end life is about to change when he makes a shrewd online investment and earns an impressive windfall. But before he can tell his wife about his success, she reveals an adulterous affair and demands a divorce. A day later, she is found brutally murderedû leaving Augustus as the sole beneficiary of her million-dollar life insurance policy. To escape his anguish, Augustus plunges into the world of the full-time day traderûand discovers that he has become both a pawn in a complex game of manipulation . . . and the target of a twisted quest for revenge. Now, heÆs not only gambling with his fortune, but with his life.