Crisis Deluxe

Review\n"Terrific . . . with Hong Kong as the backdrop, Crisis Deluxe leads in and out of the labyrinthine world of high finance where everything—money, love, memories, relationships—is sizzling and the stakes are make or break. The consummate . . . read!" Aris Janigian, LA Times best-selling author of Bloodvine, Waiting for Lipchitz at the Chateau Marmont, Waiting for Sophia at Shutters on the Beach, and other works.\n"Crisis Deluxe takes readers into . . . Hong Kong skyscrapers and seedy back alley dumpling shops where deals are made, secrets are revealed, and lives are enriched or destroyed. Crisis Deluxe holds its own with the best . . . " Michele Torrey, award-winning author of To The Edge of the World, the Chronicles of Courage series and other novels.\n"An intriguing novel set amid the chaos and complexities of global financial investments." Foreward Clarion Review May, 2021.\n"A looming sense of dread . . . highly descriptive prose." BlueInk Review.\nAN AMAZON #1 RANKED NOVEL\nWould you help millions if it cost you the woman you love?\nAn absorbing and sophisticated psychological novel set in the ceaseless action of global financial markets. Investment banker Alexander “Dusty” Street flies to Hong Kong for an emergency of global proportions. His mission: to calm Asian financial markets by completing a huge, troubled deal foundering in the early stages of a financial crisis. Everyone else sees Dusty as an all-powerful potential savior or competitor who can do anything he decides to do. Dusty himself quickly realizes that he is at the center of vast, crushing forces and as they converge opn him his freedom of action begins to vanish.
Then the love of his life reappears in Hong Kong.
The beautiful Jaqueline Nin, whom Dusty hasn’t seen in decades, is married like Dusty is now and has her own daughter. As market conditions worsen and the pressures around the deal escalate to nearly unbearable intensity, what seemed at first like Dusty’s dream come true presents him with an impossible choice, perhaps the most painful dilemma of his life.
In this multi-layered novel, Dusty faces these complexities in a richly imagined Hong Kong just before the Communist takeover, and is forced to come to terms honestly with his past as he searches for a way to overcome the destructive forces engulfing his life, his career, and all of Asia in the worst financial crisis of a generation.
An absorbing, sophisticated literary novel this is both elegant and compulsively readable, Crisis Deluxe builds to a beautiful and unexpected climax.
"Crisis Deluxe is terrific . . . Everything—money, love, memories, relationships!” Aris Janigian, LA Times best-selling author
"Crisis Deluxe takes readers to dizzying heights . . . " Michele Torrey, award-winning author of To the Edge of the World\n★★★★★ “A smart, introspective page turner” ★★★★★ “Just-right yearning nostalgia, sweet and full of hope” ★★★★★ “You’ll savor every page”