Man in the Middle (51 page)

To my dear friend Leiv Lea, an accountant/CFO extraordinaire, and his wife Deborah, thanks for reviewing the earliest version of this work and the helpful feedback.

I would also like to single out Joel Fishman for pulling my manuscript out of the slush pile and encouraging my early writing efforts. Without his input,
Man in the Middle
would never have been completed.

Finally, to Paul Korngiebel and Hilary Hinzman, your comprehensive review and literate commentary improved the final product greatly. Thank you.

KEN MORRIS
Del Mar, CA

Author photo: Michael Campbell,
Michael Campbell Photography

A Southern California native, Ken Morris obtained his undergraduate degree from UC-Santa Barbara, and his MBA from UCLA. In the 1980s, he became a stock trader for Morgan, Stanley in New York, and by the age of 31, had become a celebrated, much-sought-after trader operating at the highest levels of the world’s capital markets.

In 1992, at the tender age of 39, he stunned and perplexed the financial world by turning his back entirely on Wall Street. Returning to California, he set up a part-time consulting practice, and began devoting himself to his family and to writing.
Man in the Middle
, the first of his financial novels to be published, has already received attention from
The London Times
' City Diary and Jim Cramer's
RealMoney.com
. His next novel,
The Chosen Man
, is due out in March 2004.

He lives in Del Mar, California, with his wife, a fund manager, and their four sons.