Nineteenth Street, NW by Brett Wood
Brett Wood has written an incredibly thrilling novel about the highly secured world of currency markets. Sophia Gemaye is a young and exuberant freedom fighter. After an airline bombing goes bad, Sophia comes up with a plan to bring the government and all major corporations crashing down. She plots to sabotage the world’s currency market and destroy every outlet affiliated with commerce and financial security. This plan should go off without a hitch, until she encounters Celine O’Rourke, an angry IMFO (International Monetary and Financial Organization) veteran. Sophia desperately wants to leave her mark on the world’s financial structure, but an attractive computer expert, Harry Hoffinger, and Celine, are destined to give her a run for her money.
What makes this thriller particularly intriguing, and an exceptional read, is that it is written by an international economist turned novelist who has written Nineteenth Street under the pen name, Brett Wood. His biography states that he has lived all over the world, attended boarding schools, Harvard University for both his B.A. and PhD in Economics, taught at Oxford and has lectured at universities around the world. It sounds like this man writes from great experience and from a very powerful position himself. What I loved most about this book is that it keeps you hooked on the story from page one and does not release it’s tight grip until the last page has been turned. Wood writes with authority, excellence and professionalism, but he also tells a great story. Nineteenth Street, NW, opens the door to a secret world buried deep within the corridors of esteemed financial institutions, one that is filled with murder, mystery and suspense. If one page of this book has the potential to be true, we could be in for a wild and terrifying ride. The power, terror and heart-stopping suspense that Wood has woven into this novel will leave the reader unable to put it down. This is a fascinating territory that Wood explores with authenticity and powerful writing.
