The Art of Surfacing [Paperback]

Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2005

The year is 1986. Ex-KGB agent Figen Dimyarian has come to Boston with British spies on his tail, a hundred million in stolen Russian funds, and enough insider information to turn a fortune on the stock market. He's become enamored with the American lifestyle and with Hannah, a sexy bombshell with a secret of her own. Across town, burnt out 28 year-old lawyer Alex Chase is pushing paper for his firm's largest client, EoGen Pharmaceuticals. Alex has discovered something is very wrong with Marpax, EoGen's next big drug, and the people who stand to profit from it want very much to keep it a secret. But who can he trust? Everyone at the firm seems out to get him, including Hope, a power hungry associate and Alex's former bedmate. When Alex learns that someone is killing off subjects in Marpax's FDA testing, and those people intend to murder Hope as well, he puts his life on the line for her. Alone and against all odds, he turns to the only one who can help, Figen, the same "imaginary friend" now on the run for his very own existence.

Editorial Reviews

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"A deft financial thriller. Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff writes like a man who's been plundering and pillaging Wall Street for years!" -- STEPHEN POLLAN, bestselling author (Die Broke, Fire Your Boss)

"Great characters, clever writing. This books rocks!" -- PHILLIP RHEE, action movie producer, director, star (Best of the Best

From the Publisher

Lawyers, sex, spies, stocks and scams make for a killer thriller. This book is one intense page-turner.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 292 pages
• Publisher: Glenneyre Press (March 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976804093
• ISBN-13: 978-0976804093
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,518,366 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff is a bestselling and award-winning author living in Los Angeles who has been known to occasionally moonlight as a TV host, voice-over artist and rock journalist. A professional composer of music for television for many years, opportunity knocked and transformed him into a screen/TV writer and author featured on "Access Hollywood." Then a podcast recorded in his car became a weeknightly drive-time radio show on Sirius Sateillite Radio. This led to a handsome feature in Playboy Magazine that compared Mark to Howard Stern and Jon Stewart.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Riveting!, July 11, 2005

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This review is from: The Art of Surfacing (Paperback)

I had trouble putting this down. Mr. Nemcoff takes you thru Boston and all over the world with his tale of crime, spies, sex, greed and murder. He kept a constant correlation to music and lyrics, weaving characters into a corrupt, at times, "Ally McBeal" -type setting. Even though I LIKE "Brown-eyed Girl" by Van Morrison, I plan to read this through a second time and look for the movie.