In a postcreditcrunch world the global economy is hanging by a thread and dark forces are at work to kick civilization into the abyss. Jim is a boy wonder who c... » 

In a postcreditcrunch world the global economy is hanging by a thread and dark forces are at work to kick civilization into the abyss. Jim is a boy wonder who can read stock charts like fiftyfoot road signs. His uncanny talent has taken him from teaboy to trading superstar. Is he a genius or a fluke? He doesnt know. The mysterious Max Davas emperor of trading makes billions dealing US treasuries using more computing firepower than NASA but now his models are telling him that somethings about to go catastrophically wrong. «