Coming For Money
A Novel of International Finance
By: F. W. Vom Scheidt
Published: 2009
Format: Paperback, 266 pages
ISBN13: 9780978498283
Publisher: Blue Butterfly Books
Investment banker Paris Smith faces a race against a deadline, to complete a one hundred million dollar bond transaction, that has gone very wrong. In a fast paced, page turning novel of high finance and international intrigue, author F. W. Vom Scheidt creates a morality tale that examines the very nature of the human soul and its relationship with material wealth. The story of Coming For Money: A Novel of International Finance describes a man's search for meaning and love in a world measured only in dollars, and how that conflict leads to personal redemption.
Paris Smith, by his very name, is a global everyman. His craft is hammering out financial deals, and his forge is the world of international finance. At the same time, He is at home with making large amounts of money, and that skill formed the driving motivation of his life. At the same time, Paris Smith faces his own internal torment. Living his life in a world driven by greed for money, and the fear of its loss, Paris Smith faces the reality of his own mortality. Facing a deadline for the completion of an almost failed bond transaction, that time constraint represents the clock ticking on his own life. Paris Smith wants to save the deal, but does so in terms of the monetary realm. To save the flagging transaction, and wracked by fear of personal failure, he is almost willing to trade his soul.
F. W. Vom Scheidt (photo left) creates a vision of a world where a man seeks redemption, and a second chance to live a more human life. Having seen love disappear from his life, Paris Smith seeks to overcome his own self imposed barriers to love. Through love, he believes he can redeem his soul. For his more mundane life, he chooses to act with ethics and morality, in a milieu where fear and greed for money are the ruling forces. In the end, the author asks some profound questions of whether it profits a man to gain financial wealth at the cost of his soul. For Paris Smith, the answer is to seek love as redemption, and to rid the emptiness of spirit that had been filled previously with fear and greed.
The author provides insights into the world of international investment banking, that take the reader on a jet paced journey from Toronto to Singapore and Bangkok. The result is a page turning adventure story, that grips the reader from the very beginning of the novel. At the same time, F. W. Vom Scheidt delves into the theme of man's internal struggle against himself. Paris Smith faces a battle for his own eternal soul, as he struggles with his own mortality. Trapped within a cage of his own making, forged on bar at a time through guilt, fear and greed, Paris Smith seeks to break free. Feeling alone and facing oblivion in the secular world of high finance, he seeks absolution through love. Only through rediscovering love for himself, however, can he be redeemed by loving another.
I highly recommend the fast paced, page turning book Coming For Money: A Novel of International Finance by F. W. Vom Scheidt, to anyone seeking an exciting novel that combines financial intrigue with deeper themes facing all people. The author creates believable, well drawn characters, who face both internal and external conflict. The characters stay with the reader, long after the book is read, because their struggles are the challenges facing humanity in a globalized economy. Despite the pressures of money, the author points out that what makes us human, is more important than what makes us rich financially.
Read the highly enjoyable and rewarding novel Coming For Money: A Novel of International Finance by F. W. Vom Scheidt, and discover that world of international finance is not driven by money, as many believe. Instead, it's created by people, subject to the same human desires and frailties as everyone else. That human aspect, that drives global money markets, makes all of the difference.
