Norb   Vonnegut

Tyche   Hendricks

Guest: Norb Vonnegut
"Gods of Greenwich"
Website http://norbvonnegut.com

Crime Novels of the 21st Century will probably focus very often on street crime...Wall Street. Author Norb Vonnegut knows that street very well. The author of the Breakthrough Novel Top Producer in 2009, and it's hit followup Gods Of Greenwich which hits the bookstores and websites in Spring 2011, spent 20 years at the highest levels of the financial industry, working in private wealth management as a stockbroker with Morgan Stanley, Paine Webber and other investment banks.

Now his expertise is on tap in his blogs on The Huffington Post, Australia's Switzer and Acrimoney. And his experience, observations and understanding of the secret inner world of really big money provide the unforgettable characters and setting of his Financial Thrillers.

His first novel Top Producer starts with the shocking murder of a wealthy hedge fund operator Charlie Keleman who is killed before scores of horrified party-goers. When his best friend, Grove O'Rourke, the titular "Top Prodcer" at the fictional boutique Investment Bank Sacks, Kidder and Carnegie tries to help Keleman's widow settle his affairs, a labyrinth of deceit is revealed that may destroy O'Rourke and create a billion dollar scandal...but O'Rourke won't go down without a fight.

Publisher's Weekly was immediately bullish on Norb Vonnegut, calling Top Producer "...The Gold Standard for Financial Thrillers." Library Journal called it a "Promising Debut" and Bloomberg on the Economy described it as "Shockingly Accurate."

Norb Vonnegut's new novel The Gods of Greenwich arrives before the public in the spring of 2011. This new book takes on the travails of Jimmy Cusack, a kid from a blue collar neighborhood who managed to make good on Wall Street...until things collapse. Once he lands a survival job at Leeser Capital, a Greenwich Fund that seems to have mysteriously avoided the woes of the capital market...then the trouble really starts.

Norb Vonnegut not only brings billion dollar personal perspective to his writing, but also his gripping prose and dark sense of humor.

Norb Vonnegut is a Harvard College and Harvard Business Graduate, he spends his time between homes in New York City and Rhode Island.

Guest: Tyche Hendricks
"The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport—Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands"
Website: http://tychehendricks.com

Tyche Hendricks covered immigration and demographics for many years at the San Francisco Chronicle. She is an editor at KQED public radio and a lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.

Over years of reportage in the area, Hendricks has developed a unique, first hand perspective of the borderlands region and its people. Gathering her stories from emergency rooms and factory floors, farm kitchens and jail cells. She saw American and Mexican cowboys, environmentalists, doctors and nuns wrestling with shared binational problems...problems whose implications impact even the highest level policy makers in both countries.

But the story is clearest on the individual level, and that's where The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport is most successful. With a stalled immigration policy and a raging drug war, it's the people who live in the borderlands who are bearing the brunt of the violence and the political friction. The renewed debate about immigration has focused attention on the U.S.-Mexico border once again. Hendricks brings a fresh perspective to one of the most debated and least understood of regions.

Hosted by Steve Murphy.

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Guest: Norb Vonnegut
"Gods of Greenwich"
Website http://norbvonnegut.com

Guest: Tyche Hendricks
"The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport—Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands"
Website: http://tychehendricks.com

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