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Narcolepsy
The fight to save the Eurozone from financial ruin escalates over four days in this fast-paced thriller.
It starts out like any other Thursday. In Geneva, Christine Lamontagne CEO of the World Bank, is desperately trying to negotiate a Chinese bailout of failing Eurozone banks. She fails, because the Chinese believe as she does; the situation is hopeless without significant new sources of funding. Meanwhile in London, Myles Saldana, an analyst for the World Bank, runs a financial model that shows that Spain’s central bank is essentially bankrupt. He knows that the news will spread like wildfire through the financial markets because no one will be able to stop the chain of central bank failures that’s coming. His boss, Arnold Minter, sees that the head of the Italian central bank has been killed in a suspicious automobile accident. He immediately calls Lamontagne to tell her the news: this means that the “2% list” is complete. “Genady was the last one,” he says. Minter calls Myles into his office and tells him he’s sending him a file called the 2% list as “insurance.”
And then commandos break in, guns blazing, and it ceases being like any other Thursday. In the space of three minutes, Minter is killed, and the commandos realise that Myles Saldana has been given the secret 2% list. Myles barely evades the commandos chasing him desperately trying to secure the list. Saldana escapes the office, only to be pursued to his flat, where a deadly confrontation with a “policeman” convinces him that he has to leave London and fast. He can’t trust anyone and he can’t go to the authorities, so he boards a Eurostar to Paris one step ahead of his pursuers and the authorities.
By Friday the financial markets are in turmoil, as news of Spain’s default becomes known. In Geneva, Lamontagne reaches out to a mysterious financier named “Hugo” to confirm that the so-called 2% list is complete, and to confirm a meeting on Sunday to engineer a rescue of certain Eurozone banks. In Paris, Myles has linked up with Zoe Cruz, a beautiful young heiress who has a not-so-secret crush on him. As he discovers that the “2% list” contains the names of high ranking bankers and law enforcement officials, he is again confronted by armed men determined to kill him. He begins to wonder – are the list and the turmoil in the financial markets connected? And then it dawns on him – if he survives the weekend, will the markets be able to open on Monday?
Narcolepsy is the fast-paced thriller from established author Eric James Fullilove. Fullilove delves into a financial underworld where those who are really in charge of the banks are not their CEOs. Narcolepsy unravels expeditiously over four days; it is a surging thriller which charts the dark and duplicitous events which will lead to a new world order where corruption will be commonplace. The sequel to the book is due out at the end of 2013 and will pick up where Narcolepsy left off.
It starts out like any other Thursday. In Geneva, Christine Lamontagne CEO of the World Bank, is desperately trying to negotiate a Chinese bailout of failing Eurozone banks. She fails, because the Chinese believe as she does; the situation is hopeless without significant new sources of funding. Meanwhile in London, Myles Saldana, an analyst for the World Bank, runs a financial model that shows that Spain’s central bank is essentially bankrupt. He knows that the news will spread like wildfire through the financial markets because no one will be able to stop the chain of central bank failures that’s coming. His boss, Arnold Minter, sees that the head of the Italian central bank has been killed in a suspicious automobile accident. He immediately calls Lamontagne to tell her the news: this means that the “2% list” is complete. “Genady was the last one,” he says. Minter calls Myles into his office and tells him he’s sending him a file called the 2% list as “insurance.”
And then commandos break in, guns blazing, and it ceases being like any other Thursday. In the space of three minutes, Minter is killed, and the commandos realise that Myles Saldana has been given the secret 2% list. Myles barely evades the commandos chasing him desperately trying to secure the list. Saldana escapes the office, only to be pursued to his flat, where a deadly confrontation with a “policeman” convinces him that he has to leave London and fast. He can’t trust anyone and he can’t go to the authorities, so he boards a Eurostar to Paris one step ahead of his pursuers and the authorities.
By Friday the financial markets are in turmoil, as news of Spain’s default becomes known. In Geneva, Lamontagne reaches out to a mysterious financier named “Hugo” to confirm that the so-called 2% list is complete, and to confirm a meeting on Sunday to engineer a rescue of certain Eurozone banks. In Paris, Myles has linked up with Zoe Cruz, a beautiful young heiress who has a not-so-secret crush on him. As he discovers that the “2% list” contains the names of high ranking bankers and law enforcement officials, he is again confronted by armed men determined to kill him. He begins to wonder – are the list and the turmoil in the financial markets connected? And then it dawns on him – if he survives the weekend, will the markets be able to open on Monday?
Narcolepsy is the fast-paced thriller from established author Eric James Fullilove. Fullilove delves into a financial underworld where those who are really in charge of the banks are not their CEOs. Narcolepsy unravels expeditiously over four days; it is a surging thriller which charts the dark and duplicitous events which will lead to a new world order where corruption will be commonplace. The sequel to the book is due out at the end of 2013 and will pick up where Narcolepsy left off.
196 pages, Unknown Binding
First published September 20, 2013
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About the author
Eric James Fullilove
12 books8 followersEric James Fullilove is the global Chief Financial Officer for World Vision International. Originally from Newark, New Jersey USA, Fullilove now splits his time between Los Angeles and London and travels extensively for his job; he has visited 59 of the 100 countries in which World Vision is active. Fullilove is of African American origin and his grandmother, Maggie Shaw Fullilove, was one of the first African American women to become a published author in the US in 1918; his father was a prominent physician and his mother a prominent civic leader. This is Fullilove’s sixth novel; other works include Blowback which was published by HarperCollins.
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October 23, 2013
This was thrilling and fast-paced from the first pages. Myles Saldana, an American working for the Euro-Zone financial world, is sent an email from his boss, moments before said boss is killed in a para-military raid of the office...Myles flees and has to fight for his life. What's on the disk he was given? How can he even open the file?
Lots of characters, and POV jumps among them, each carrying out their own goals...A head of the financial company, an Interpol officer trying to understand why so many financial big-wigs are being killed...
And Myles, running for his life, much more resourceful than your average financial worker...From London to Paris to Geneva...in a matter of just a few days.
There's a plot...there are more than one plot. There are twists and questions that kept me turning pages...
The flashbacks give us background on Myles -- too smart for his own good, but needy and so very isolated...
This book kept me guessing, usually wrong. The big reveal scares the bejesus out of me. I can see something like that actually happening, and it would be horrible.
The technical setting of the financial world is completely new to me, so I know there were nuances that flew right over my head, but I got enough to be chilled to the bone.
And the last line of the book? Sequel, please!!
Lots of characters, and POV jumps among them, each carrying out their own goals...A head of the financial company, an Interpol officer trying to understand why so many financial big-wigs are being killed...
And Myles, running for his life, much more resourceful than your average financial worker...From London to Paris to Geneva...in a matter of just a few days.
There's a plot...there are more than one plot. There are twists and questions that kept me turning pages...
The flashbacks give us background on Myles -- too smart for his own good, but needy and so very isolated...
This book kept me guessing, usually wrong. The big reveal scares the bejesus out of me. I can see something like that actually happening, and it would be horrible.
The technical setting of the financial world is completely new to me, so I know there were nuances that flew right over my head, but I got enough to be chilled to the bone.
And the last line of the book? Sequel, please!!
October 28, 2013
I was given the book in exchange for an honest review. As with every book I read, I like to approach a book completely blind. Having not read any books or reviews by this author, I had no clue what to be expecting.
This book was a fast read for me. I was able to read this book in 1 day. This was a fast paced thriller from the first word. Not once was there a dull moment in the story.
Narcolepsy centers around Myles Saldana who works for World Bank in Europe. This young man basically has it all. He's of Spanish decent, young, good looking and a genius. He finds that his world has started to fall apart and collapse on a Thursday. Just like all the financial markets, he is seeing his life slip away. He doesn't know why this is happening to him. Who he can trust. Most importantly, will he survive to see what happens on Monday.
This was a great book. It does jump around a lot. You are getting a lot of different perspectives all at once. You don't have a chance to get to know the secondary, tertiary or any of the plethora of characters.
I don't know if this is going to lead to a series of stories or just a stand alone. Either way, this was a great story. Really enjoyed it.
This book was a fast read for me. I was able to read this book in 1 day. This was a fast paced thriller from the first word. Not once was there a dull moment in the story.
Narcolepsy centers around Myles Saldana who works for World Bank in Europe. This young man basically has it all. He's of Spanish decent, young, good looking and a genius. He finds that his world has started to fall apart and collapse on a Thursday. Just like all the financial markets, he is seeing his life slip away. He doesn't know why this is happening to him. Who he can trust. Most importantly, will he survive to see what happens on Monday.
This was a great book. It does jump around a lot. You are getting a lot of different perspectives all at once. You don't have a chance to get to know the secondary, tertiary or any of the plethora of characters.
I don't know if this is going to lead to a series of stories or just a stand alone. Either way, this was a great story. Really enjoyed it.
October 15, 2013
Fast paced thriller set in the financial world. Poses the prospect of a meltdown of the European market - in need of a bailout but with no funds available the banks look to large criminal organisations for funding. One banker accidentally comes across some sensitive information relating to the plan and soon becomes embroiled in an international conspiracy.
The author's background in the murky world of finance shows clearly, as he writes about it very competently. This adds an element of reality, which is important when you're dealing with a plot of epically far-fetched proportions. I finished the book fully considering that this could be a situation that might arise!
The author's background in the murky world of finance shows clearly, as he writes about it very competently. This adds an element of reality, which is important when you're dealing with a plot of epically far-fetched proportions. I finished the book fully considering that this could be a situation that might arise!
October 30, 2013
I have read Narcolepsy it was a Thriller, fun, easy not want to put down, Good Book...I enjoyed Myles .. thank you...
August 17, 2014
This book is really amazing and the the author too
the way he has given a description of the disease is amazing....
the way he has given a description of the disease is amazing....
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