Recent Reads : Black Edge by S. Kolhatkar

Really well done. Good job Sheelah.

My favourite bits :

Weitzman had worked for three years prosecuting organized crime cases. The most dramatic one had been a murder case involving the Albanian mob, in which two brothers killed their best friend after mistakenly concluding that he was working as an informant and then tossed the gun into the bay under the Verazano bridge. Even though the people involved in those kinds of cases were often committing heinous crimes, murdering and stealing and extorting from vulnerable people, Weitzman observed that they operated by a code that said you did not betray your friends and family. The bonds of loyalty were strong. In the Wall Street cases, by contrast, people turned on one another with very little prompting. There was no code at all, nothing beyond a shared lust for making money. Freeman hewed to type. He barely hesitated before flipping on Longeuil who had been the best man at his wedding.

I was determined to talk to him [Cohen]. I knew that he would be at Christie's that evening in the spring of 2015. So I went to see him there. The night of the auction, the Christie's building was overflowing with women of multinational identity whose cheekbones could have sliced a wheel of brie and men who looked too rich to possibly care about the financial crisis in Greece.

Other good stuff - while growing up, Steve's siblings used to complain - why does Steve get to eat steak? Coz he's going to support us someday.

:)