For Jennifer Palmer, the view from her corner office overlooking Biscayne Bay could not be better. A rising star at a prestigous brokerage house, Jennifer has adeptly navigated the firm's corporate channels and South Florida's social circles to become a highly successful stockbroker. In fact, she is set to bring in commissions in excess of $2 million for the year, and is about to fly off to St. Tropez on a private jet owned by a Russian vodka magnate. "The Stockbroker" is a thrilling novel that affords a revealing look inside the playgrounds of the uber-rich. As the first female trainee at the firm of Tate and Yardley, Jennifer is initially oblivious to the cold calculation and manipulative ploys of greedy managers, as she learns the inner workings of a retail brokerage office, from hard-sell sales meetings and quotas, to the realities of daily market volatility and cold-calling naive investors. Her prospects improve exponentially when she makes the acquaintance of a handsome hedge fund manager named Javier Cordova, and a romance unfolds against a backdrop of fabulous Palm Beach soirees, glamorous nightlife, designer labels, luxury automobiles and inexhaustible capital. But when Jennifer comes face to face with a global conspiracy of subterfuge, fraud and criminal deceit. the stage is set for an unforgettable finale. A spririted romantic thriller, charting an exciting course from South Florida to the Cote d'Azur, "The Stockbroker is a riveting fictional account of life in the financial fast lane