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The Fibonacci Deception captures the romance of trading commodities in a financial thriller set in Chicago in the year 2000. It was published electronically in the summer of 2013. Tom Winters, an unemployed financial analyst, meets Amy, a smart, ambitious reporter covering the markets at the Chicago Board of Trade. With the help of a Russian mathematician, the three contrive a plan to make money in futures, a profitable but illicit scheme. In the midst of their trading, a crisis in the grain fields erupts when genetically modified seeds sold by a bioscience company menace food production in the U.S. A blackmailer enters the picture and threatens the trio of traders with exposure and government prosecution, forcing them to confront the law while putting Tom's loyalty to Amy to the test. This engaging story of romance and trading should appeal to readers with an interest in markets and the impact of money on love.
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Photo credit: Carol Highsmith, from her collection at the Library of Congress. The image is of a sculpture of Ceres at Union Station, Washington, D.C. Original photo at the Library of Congress Website. Jacket design by Travis Miles.