The Fortune Weaver - Couverture souple

Carrier, Jeffrey L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798950343094

Editeur : Carrier Press, 2026

Synopsis

Alex Vance lost everything in 2021. He is about to be offered the chance to lose more.

From a one-bedroom apartment in Inwood, looking at a radiator and a Scottish coastline he can no longer afford to remember, Alex Vance is rebuilding a quiet practice. Vance Holdings LLC. A handful of clients. A model that runs on container-data signals and a rule he gives every analyst he hires: find your second trade.

Then Elias Thorne calls.

Thorne — the hedge-fund predator who funded the Hauptmann short that brought Alex back from the dead in 2023 — has a new opportunity. A bridge account. A capital-flow scheme that runs through Vance-Orion Continuity Bridge LLC. Forty Wall Street, first Wednesday in April. The numbers work. The pricing is generous. The structure is, if not legal, then within the gray space the SEC has not yet illuminated.

Alex says yes.

Anya Petrova, his analyst — Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley MFE, ex-Halberd Pierce — understands what he has agreed to before he does. So does Liam Chen, his quant. So, eventually, does Reed, his outside counsel of thirty-six years, who lays out the four paths Alex still has and tells him exactly which one he is going to take.

The cost — the bridge account, the firings, the Sterling Dynamics resignation, the morning-after call, the SEC's Vesey Street settlement — is the novel.

For readers of Hernan Diaz Trust, Andrew Sean Greer Less, Paul Murray The Bee Sting. The Fortune Weaver is an austere literary novel about the moral cost of seeing too clearly — written in deliberately spare prose, set inside a finance-thriller chassis.

Eight separately quotable lines that readers across radically different demographics retained: I do not like you. Now eat your soup. Take care of your sister. The boy is here. You are a serious man. Good to see you. The closing reflection: He had not woven anything. He had looked at things until he saw what was actually there. The looking had been the work.

The voice is the value.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Carrier Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798950343094
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 212
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg