5-Minute-Review: Final Venture
Michael Ridpath: Final Venture
I had read Ridpath’s first book “The Marketmaker” a couple months ago, I enjoyed it, and was pretty happy when Stella picked this one up for me.
The story revolves a junior member in a Boston-based Venture Capital firm. Big money, stocks and venture capital are being moved around, there is some internal friction and secrecy and then people start dying.
The story is very well told, characters and suspense is built up slowly and the story takes several interesting and realistic turns. Michael Ridpath has done his homework, I was especially impressed with his accurate description of hacking into a protected network through a trusted node using TCP/IP packet spoofing.
I’m not sure if it’s the re-emergence of the Tech-Boom, or my interest in the financial side of the story, but I really enjoyed this book, and found very little to complain about.
Michael Ridpath is to finance what John Grisham is to law.
