Green Monday by Thomas, Michael M.
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After a career as a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a partner at Lehman Brothers and an independent financial consultant and investor, I sat down in 1978 to write my first novel. The book, Green Monday, published in 1980, was a success, and I became a full-time writer. Since then I have published seven other novels, written innumerable articles and reviews, and beginning in 1987, a weekly column for The New York Observer. I also contribute occasional commentary to Forbes.com.
I like to write novels that I would enjoy reading - for I was a voracious reader long before I took up the typewriter and then the computer keyboard.To me, reading enjoyment derives from both the intelligence and the heart. I've often said I read nonfiction for information, but novels for truth, by which I mean insight and understanding. Plots must make narrative sense; the reader must say to himself or herself from the first page, "Yes, this could happen!" And, indeed, much of what I've set down in my novels has in fact subsequently come to pass.My characters take a view of life, which they both shape and are shaped by. They have opinions, and sometimes what they have to say has such a ring of authenticity that readers can get upset. Still, the criticism I am most proud of appeared just last Suday, July 19, in The New York Post, in a review of my latest novel, Love & Money (Melville House), by Kyle Smith, who opened his review with the statement, "Smart people need beach reads too." There's my ideal reader: who wants both enlightenment and entertainment in the same package, and is scared of neither.
I like to write novels that I would enjoy reading - for I was a voracious reader long before I took up the typewriter and then the computer keyboard.To me, reading enjoyment derives from both the intelligence and the heart. I've often said I read nonfiction for information, but novels for truth, by which I mean insight and understanding. Plots must make narrative sense; the reader must say to himself or herself from the first page, "Yes, this could happen!" And, indeed, much of what I've set down in my novels has in fact subsequently come to pass.My characters take a view of life, which they both shape and are shaped by. They have opinions, and sometimes what they have to say has such a ring of authenticity that readers can get upset. Still, the criticism I am most proud of appeared just last Suday, July 19, in The New York Post, in a review of my latest novel, Love & Money (Melville House), by Kyle Smith, who opened his review with the statement, "Smart people need beach reads too." There's my ideal reader: who wants both enlightenment and entertainment in the same package, and is scared of neither.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb Financial Thriller,
By Siddhanti R B (New Delhi, India) - See all my reviews
This review is from: GREEN MONDAY (Mass Market Paperback)
It was Michael Thomas who made me an unabashed admirer of Financial Thrillers. This book of his , is a nail biting, super exciting thriller, not only an extra ordinary story beautifully told, but also an education for common folks who dont know the intrigues and manipulations of financial markets, stock markets and corporate warfare big games that happen all the time out there in the market place. Green Monday is a book not to be missed.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding within it's genre... or without,
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This review is from: Green Monday (Hardcover)
Seldom do I save novels into my permanent library. This is one that I have. Superb writing coupled with a far-out yet viable financial-manipulation plot line makes this one worth re-reading every few years. Big money, romance, dangerous characters, this book has it all.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Quite possibly THE best financial thriller,
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This review is from: Green Monday (Paperback)
Over twenty years from its publishing, Green Monday still holds its own as possibly the best financial thriller existent. Makes me wish he wrote more or the genre had caught fire like legal thrillers. The book is a throwback to a politically incorrect time when the U.S. was mired in stagflation and the NYSE was a shell of itself.
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