I have given Leslie Wetzon, my protagonist, the very characteristics a headhunter needs to be successful, and lo and behold, these characteristics also work in detecting. She is a high-quality listener and a nosy parker. She wants to serve, and headhunting is a service job.

The world of high finance--the brokerage industry-- is the world I worked in for sixteen years; I know it well. It is highly theatrical, wonderfully funny, terribly sad, salted with evil and greed, sex and drugs and money. And often dangerous. Frustrations, delusions, dreams and nightmares are lived out moment by moment on the Street. What better setting for murder?

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