John D. Frankel

The Heretofore Un-tolled History of the Independent Republic of Harvey Markson: the Inside Story As Told to John D. Frankel

After the untimely death of Rupert Haldane Winkes, Bay Street?s most respected investment manager, Rupert?s loyal and talented younger partner, Harvey Markson, finds his stable, comfortably affluent world disintegrating around his well-shod heels, as Rupert?s bastion of intelligence and integrity is assailed by avarice and incompetence. Harvey begins to feel that he has more in common with Segovia, the homeless man who strums a stringless guitar at the foot of the city?s costliest real estate, than he does with the firm?s new CEO, Leon Kelpner, periodontist-cum-venture capitalist. As the illusion of a secure universe built on career success crumbles, Harvey must find not only a new place to call home but also a new way of being in the world, and he must dig deep within himself to find the strength of faith he?ll need to face a new kind of freedom and the inevitable, unforeseen changes it brings.