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Author: Mallach, David A. ISBN10: 0970568428 ISBN13: 9780970568427 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Penhurst Books $21.95 Including Shipping Purchase Now

Dancing with the Analysts
►"A powerful novel by a Wall Street insider. A must read for anyone involved in stocks and the market."
-- Maribel Suarez, Investment Associates, June 27, 2002
In this first offering of financial thrillers, author David Mallach introduces Johnny Long, the man with the financial knowledge, the man who develops investment strategies and makes them available to the Everyman, the man who sees the true risks and rewards behind everything. From the outset, Johnny must make choices – hard choices – in a world of high-stakes investing and intrigue in which choosing wisely means a life of purpose and choosing poorly means unaccomplished dreams.

In this novel, Johnny shows that “money is nothing in itself.” Rather, it is what we do with wealth that brings meaning to a life well lived. Here begins the relationship as Johnny meets Austin Montgomery, a college student cut adrift and ill prepared for a world in which he has no family, no money, and no mentor. Together, Johnny and Austin accept a challenge in which they stand to win millions… or lose everything in the process. Failure is not an option; unfortunately, it is a distinct possibility. Together they must follow a path between temptation and virtue without knowing where they may eventually wind up.

Dancing with the Analysts is sure to entertain as well as educate. Beginning investors receive a crash course in portfolio management intricately wrapped in a sophisticated story.

Author: Mallach, David A. ISBN10: 0970568401 ISBN13: 978-0970568403 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Penhurst Books $17.95 Including Shipping Purchase Now

Walking with the Analysts
►"An invaluable gift of knowledge to all of us who seek need growth of income for ourselves and to help others. Thank you, David Mallach!"
Gustavo Barrantes, Charity Executive, Latin America
►"At last! A follow-up to Dancing with the Analysts. That book changed my whole investment approach." --Jack Evans - Southwest Investment Partners
►"Need more income in these times of rising costs? This book is for you." Maribel Zuniga Finance Manager, ACE Enterprises --Maribel Zuniga -Director of Finance- ACE Enterprises

Walking with the Analysts is a gripping, often gut-wrenching novel in which the worlds of Wall Street and third-world poverty collide. Renowned money manager Johnny Long accomplishes for himself the challenge of bridging these seemingly disparate worlds together. Racing against the clock in a desperate attempt to rescue an African hospital from financial ruin -- saving countless lives in the process – Johnny Long must adapt his investment strategies to stave off the erosion of a deteriorating economic environment. There is far more at stake for Johnny Long than simply landing a new account. There are lives at stake… men, women and children. And values extend beyond portfolio worth.

The novel is set in Botswana, a country ravished by poverty, starvation and disease. In a country where over 50% of the population is HIV positive, the Princess Diana Hospital provides the only chance of survival these people will ever know. However, disaster looms ominously as the hospital teeters on the verge of fiscal collapse. Crippled by mounting expenses and catastrophic declines in income as bond and CD interest rates fall, the Directors are faced with a terrible decision – should they continue investing their endowment for maximum current income or change the policy of the endowment to a strategy of income growth.

The disciplines taught and the lessons learned in this fictional account of one man’s attempt to change his little part of the world are applicable to everyday investing in ways that transcend the page. Thus, Walking with the Analysts is more than a primer on income investing. It is also a tale about the human spirit and what it takes to triumph in our darkest hour, a tale about the vast potential of the human spirit.

Author: Mallach, David A. ISBN10: 0578074354 ISBN13: 978-0970568403 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Penhurst Books $21.95 Including Shipping Purchase Now

Running with the Analysts
►"After reading this I feel like there is hope again." Investor Todd Wood
►March 18, 2011 "Another Winner -- Mallach's accumulated wisdom and experience teach you everything you need to know about successful investing in a fun, easy to read format. Never before have I read a novel that captivates you from the beginning and leaves you with incredible knowledge that can change your financial future. This novel makes you think and feel; and no matter how many times you read it something else comes to light that you had not previously thought about." KA Bushnell - Senior Vice President
►"Investing in a exciting way. David Mallach has one of the most fascinating jobs; so fascinating, in fact, that some of his stories are truly real life experiences told through the eyes of someone who has been there." Mike Smalla

Renowned money manager Johnny Long is back, and this time the stakes are leveraged like never before. This third offering in David Mallach’s critically-acclaimed series of “financial thrillers” takes us into the cut-throat world of options trading and clandestine hedge funds to expose the men behind the curtains who are changing our world faster than we know. In this novel, Johnny Long finds himself in the middle of two worlds colliding as he tiptoes along the fault line of human nature where money meets morality. Caught up in a high-stakes investing contest among the world’s most powerful investors, Johnny Long must come precariously close to the breaking point where the majestic façades decorating “progress,” “knowledge,” “wealth,” and “philanthropy” crumble to reveal the true modes of power and resistance are lurking behind.

When one of Johnny’s clients -- a brilliant but socially-inept genetic scientist -- announces that he has discovered a direct link between doing good and living longer, he unwittingly allies himself with a sinister group seeking to acquire the doctor’s research by any means necessary. Their ultimate goal is to develop a genetically-engineered end to moral decision making and the choice for free will that defines what is most quintessentially human. And they will stop at nothing.

How far is Johnny willing to go to preserve individual freedom and free will? Can he redesign his options strategy to compete with the most successful, most sophisticated investors in the world? Pushing wealth to its moral limits, Johnny Long works against the clock to endow his client with both money and freedom – the money to continue his ground-breaking research unfettered and the freedom from the global underground network that seems to have its tentacles around everything.

Running with the Analysts is an overview of option investing at its finest wrapped within a fictional tale of what is… and what can be life’s richest ambiguity.