Greedy Heart by A.P. Murray
It’s 2006, and she is living in a shabby apartment and facing crushing student debt. Suddenly, she’s plucked from obscurity to work for Wall Street’s top hedge fund. Determined to make her millions, Delia must master the cutthroat world of big-stakes trading and profit off of the cataclysm of the looming crash.
That’s the setup for Greedy Heart (Tule Publishing), an engrossing and smart debut novel from technology executive A.P. Murray, described as The Big Short meets The Dutch House.
Born into a lace-curtain Irish/old New York moneyed family, 35-year-old Delia was raised in a modern-day castle on Fifth Avenue until the Great Family Financial Disaster of 1986, when a business manager with reckless tendencies plunged the family money into risky investments that failed.
Motivated by this underlying greed for wealth that was meant to be hers, Delia toiled away on an unpublished PhD thesis on something called mortgage-backed subprime, discovering the inevitability of a market crash of unprecedented scale.
Most importantly, she had found a way to make billions on it, and now the two top hedge fund rivals in New York City, Odyssey Capital and Hermes Fund, want Delia on their team. What they don’t know is that Delia has some devious intentions of her own.
What ensues is a drama of inheritance, attraction, greed, infidelity, hoarding and morality told through a fictional tale of the financial crash, the collapse of Greece and one eccentric New York family.
Delia is in a high-risk game, and she is a better player than most. When her soul is on the line, though, how much is enough for her greedy heart?
