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100% chance of failure, with hope in the forecast

The year is 2020, and the world is on the brink of economic collapse.  Can a group of "whiz kids" led by an absent-minded professor and a 24 year old girl save us?

A "shock and awe" metafiction thriller

The crash of the stock market has created a rippling effect of disastrous proportions.  Banks have failed, and people are rioting in the streets of the cities, which are on fire.  Rolling blackouts have given way to entire system failures.  University of Chicago Economics Professor Harry Mason, advisor to U.S. presidents and the Treasury Department, has gathered his dream team of "whiz kids," the brightest and the best graduate students in Economics, for a special laboratory class.  Their mission: to save the world.  But is it too late?

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Fiction author Kenneth Eade and non-fiction author Gordon L. Eade team up to give you a meta-fiction thriller designed to show how to survive the next crash.

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From the Author

"It began very quietly with a few signals that I missed.  "Where are my car keys?" "I can't find my glasses."  I have been told that next I will have difficulty remembering recently learned facts and the ability to acquire new information and eventually I will lose my writing ability. As my memory difficulties peak I will lose awareness of recent experiences and events and  have increasing episodes of urinary incontinence. Then I will begin to experience personality and behavior changes. In the final steps I will lose the ability to speak and ultimately to control movements.

     Finally I will be unable to hold my head up or even walk. My wife, lover and companion will be physically and mentally spent nursing me in a futile battle against an unknown assailant for which there is no cure. Death follows. The whole process will take as little as two years or as long as eight. With effort I will be able to slow down the process. It's called Alzheimer's disease and I've got it.

- Gordon L. Eade

     In 2011, my father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Shortly thereafter, he gave me the manuscript for this book and asked me to work on it with him.  Since that time, I have written seven novels.  I now have come back to this project; the work of a man who was a financial genius who was able to retire before he was 54 years old and live entirely off his investments.  It carries the wealth of his knowledge about investing and the stock market, and is his first venture into writing fiction. 

  -  Kenneth Eade

About the Author

• Gordon L. Eade is a retired executive, with a background in business administration and accounting. Gordon worked at Union bank, for Gulf oil, for U.S.Borax , for Litton Industries, for the government of Greece, for Daniel, Mann & Johnson in various capacities-systems as engineer, accounting system designer, tourist and industrial development, over the years. Gordon came to South Pasadena as a freshman when gas rationing came and limited travel. His father owned the Cake Box bakery on Mission Blvd delivering fresh bakery items to grocery stores through out the county. Gordon's books and articles on finance and how to make money in the stock market are critically acclaimed.
• Author Kenneth Eade, best known for his legal and political thrillers, practiced law for 30 years before publishing his first novel, "An Involuntary Spy." Eade, an up and coming author in the legal thriller and courtroom drama genre, has been described by critics as "Brilliant when it comes to creating complicated, intriguing stories that end in mind-blowing surprises, who have said that his novels will remind readers of John Grisham, proving that Kenneth Eade deserves to be on the same lists with the world's greatest thriller authors." Says Eade of the comparisons, "John Grisham is famous for saying, 'I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.' That is exactly what I try to do in my books. Not only do I want to tell you a thrilling story that you will love to read, I also hope you come away with it having learned something important."