Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies is for traders who want to take the next step to consistently profitable trading. The authors--themselves seasoned veterans of the futures trading arena--pinpoint the trading methods and strategies that have been shown to produce market-beating returns. Their rigorous and systematic backtesting of each method, using the same sets of markets and analytic techniques, provides a scientific, system-based approach to system development...to help you assemble the trading system that will put you on the road to becoming a more consistently profitable trader.
Customer Reviews:
I liked, but it could be better.......2007-03-25
I liked this book.
it presented many ideas and a right pragmatic approach to test a trading system.
I found tough the statistics part, but it's not an author's fault: it's statistics.
in the final part I found many repetition (many pages might be saved just writing: " hey, for this system we apply the same said at pag. xyz..").
Only two things remained a mistery to me (but I'm not much intellingent..): why didn't the author make any test for longer horizons? in the end, the strategies never approached a longer term trading strategy: usually the trades last few days.
maybe it's not worth? the author doesn't tell us
ah, and it's not an encyclopedia: why did he choose this name?
this is the second mistery...
Too Technical for Me.......2006-11-05
The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies is well written and is a good book if you are looking for something very technical and mechanical. I was disappointed with the book. I thought it would offer chart set ups or set ups per technical indicators. Instead, it offered codes, etc for setting up mechanical systems.
Research oriented traders, read this one!!.......2005-12-27
Wow! For the research oriented person, this book is great! Not
only does it go over large variety of different approaches
to the commodities market, but the authors let you know the
pitfalls and traps to various methods of evaluating the markets.
The book is written in a concise manner that allows quick naviagation
and further study of any desired topics. The authors have
documented their sources well and really covered a lot of ground!
A *must* read for traders! *AND* I was interested in
the companion CD, called the number listed on the web site
and got to speak with one of the authors! He was very helpful
and answered all my questions right away! You can't beat
that for service with a book!
Best Book on Building Trading Strategies.......2005-12-19
This is by far the most complete and advanced work I've read on the subject. However, read Robert Pardo's "Design, Testing, and Optimization of Trading Systems" first if you are new to backtesting.
A must read for strategy traders.......2005-09-07
This is a good book. Everyone who is thinking about trading and/or is trading already should get a copy of the book. There isn't any "holy grail" strategy in this book, by the way. Rather, this book is about teaching how all these different indicators have performed under strict test conditions and unveils some of the mysteries about different strategies that people have talked about over the years. IMO, the author's work can be the basis of a great system. The first step has already been taken by the author, and you just have to elaborate it to add your flair and style. Happy trading!
Customer Reviews:
The Exit Strategy.......2005-09-25
Great book for everyone to determine what they want out of Business and life. Awesome job ready read the next one?
This guy needs to write another book!
Good ideas but a lot of marketing.......2004-03-29
While the ideas, 100 year outlook, do it now, use a highly qualified team, minimize taxes, etc. are excellent, I was somewhat put off by what I felt was a little too much self-praise and clearly a lot of personal marketing in th e book. As one about to embark on this quest, there was a dearth of positive information on the nature of some of the strategies.
A Different Approach to Helping Clients.......2003-02-17
Wright brings in a whole new approach to assisting clients by presenting a more comprehensive and values driven program.
There is also a good deal of solid life advice in these pages that many would do weel to heed.
I have heard that Wright comes up short as a practice consultant through colleagues but the wisdom in this book is worth its weight in gold. I think it is a worthy resource to pass on to clients to let them know where you are coming from and to establish expectations.
Straight to the point!.......2002-03-12
This book gives a new meaning into the commonly asked question "what are your goals and objectives?" All advisors are trained to ask that but only 8 out of 10 do. The book emphasizes the importance of asking the question. Understanding a persons mission and overall plan can only help you help them achieve the perfect calendar.
A look at "The Big Picture".......2000-10-27
I have been advising high net clients for years. It wasn't until I read the book that all the pieces of the puzzel finally fell into place for me. Now, "The Wright Exit Strategy" is required reading for all my new clients and any existing clients who truly want to achieve the best possible outcome with their lives and the use of their wealth.
Book Description
From the author of the acclaimed Women of the Otherworld series comes an exciting new heroine whose most secret identity is both lucrative…and lethal.
Regulars at Nadia’s nature lodge don’t ask what she does in the off-season. And that’s a good thing. If she told them, she’d have to kill them. She’s a hit woman for a Mafia family. Tough and self-sufficient, Nadia doesn’t owe anyone any explanations. But that doesn’t mean she always works alone. One of her contacts has recruited her in the hunt for a ruthlessly efficient serial killer cutting a swath of terror across the country. The assassin is far too skilled to be an amateur—and the precision of the killings is bringing the Feds much too close to the hit man community for comfort.
To put an end to the murders, Nadia will have to turn herself from predator to prey as she employs every trick she knows to find the killer. Before the killer finds her…
Customer Reviews:
Not bad, but not Armstrong's best work.......2007-10-06
I liked the characters, but this was not Armstrong's best work. It was definitely good enough to read a sequel (if one comes along) but it was my least favorite of her books so far.
Classy and enjoyable story by a terrific writer.......2007-09-26
Kelley Armstrong has proven herself to be a flexible writer with this mainstream thriller. Her heroine is still a strong woman in a tough situation. And, she successfully creates another new believable world where hired killers aren't always the bane of society. I am looking forward to seeing more books by Armstrong no matter what she decides to write because her books are consistently classy and enjoyable. Her characters are multi-dimensional and her plotting is tight and consistent. She has become one of the few writers that I'll automatically pick up anything of hers that is new knowing that it will be worth the money.
great new character.......2007-09-16
If you like her Otherworld series, you should enjoy her new non-supernatural Nadia - good, strong female lead with just enough girly that you can relate to.
Disappointing.......2007-09-15
I don't just like the Women of the Otherworld series that Kelly Armstrong has written, I love the books. I have read each one of them at least twice. So, when Kelly wrote Exit strategy I thought I would give it a try. It just has not kept my interest. The premise of a female hitwomen sounds good, but in the end it just did not deliver for me. I'll stick with the Otherworld series.
A successful foray into a new type of story.......2007-09-04
While slightly slower than I prefer, and a little light on the romance (which relates to personal preference rather than a flaw in the story), this unique approach to a serial killer tale nevertheless held my attention throughout. I look forward to the next Nadia Stafford book.
Book Description
The $10 Trillion Opportunity shows business advisors how to develop comprehensive, integrated exit plans for business owners. With the baby boomer generation approaching retirement age, exit planning has become one of the hottest topics for business advisors. Exit planning is a process that asks and answers all of the personal, business, financial, legal, estate and tax issues involved in selling or exiting from a privately held business. The $10 Trillion Opportunity is a logically structured book with a no-nonsense approach to exploring and addressing a topic that is often misunderstood and at times overwhelming for business owners and their advisors alike. An essential primer for professional advisors and business owners trying to make sense of exit planning, investment banker and former Wall Street attorney, Richard E. Jackim, together with his partner, Peter Christman, have put together a thoroughly readable exploration of exit planning, why it is important and how to introduce exit planning into your professional practice. The $10 Trillion Opportunity includes twelve case studies, fifteen illustrations, a glossary, resource guide, bibliography and a detailed index.
Customer Reviews:
Children of business owners - buy this book.......2007-08-01
Over the next decade nearly $10 trillion in business value may or may not successfully be realized through business exit planning. Jackim and Christman share their years of expereince in this concise guide. It's contents are essential to helping business owners and their advisors make the right choices. Don't let your parents hard earn wealth evaporate because they have not managed their ultimate business deal successfully! Buy this book!
A Play Book for Consultants, CPAs & Lawyers .......2007-02-11
The book is at best an outline for the process of business exit planning. It speaks to accountants, financial planners and lawyers to encourage adoption of a business exit strategy program to increase their professional fees.
As a business owner, I bought the book to gain insight into the best steps needed to position a company for a sale to a third party. I wanted to understand timing, selling strategies and valuation.
Heck, the book insists that a cash transaction is the best deal. I'm not a Wall Street genius, but I'd take stock of a publicly traded company if it meant a bigger payday. Just use a hedging strategy to get through the lock-up period, and then sell the stock.
If you're a business owner this book is not for you. If you provide professional services to business owners it would be a good book if you want to offer a new product (exit planning) to your clients. Personally, I'd welcome my CPA, lawyers and consultants to be experts in selling a business.
Once Again an Excellent Resource!.......2006-08-29
Every year hundreds of business books are published, however very often they are superficial-containing a great deal of hype but little substance. In many cases the author lacks expertise and the end result is a book filled with clichés, generalizations, and oversimplifications.
It is a given that the principle elements of a good business book are how worthy is the subject, who is authoring it and how is it being presented. Moreover, you can't fake interest in a subject -you have to really know what you are writing about, as the best business books are firmly grounded in research and personal experience. Readers must be confident that the author has done his or homework and has something useful to share.
Richard E. Jackim is an experienced attorney while Peter G. Christman is a skilled entrepreneur and both specialize in counseling clients in profitably and successfully exiting a privately held business. With their second edition of The $10 Trillion Opportunity: Designing Successful Exit Strategies for Middle Market Business Owners, Jackim and Christman once again have shown they know what they are talking about.
The updated edition does not vary too much from its first edition however it is shored up with a helpful comprehensive bibliography for those who wish to delve into the topic of exit planning in greater detail.
Mingling personal case studies with research, the authors have created a credible voice to an elusive subject matter that is very rarely written about in such detail. In fact, it is doubtful if anyone else has appropriated the subject in such a comprehensive and integrated approach.
The format and contents of the second edition have for the most part remained the same, as the authors again refrain from dumping on the reader great heaps of information with little structure. They rather carefully organize their advice in such a way that their vast experience and knowledge logically unfolds toward a climax of accumulated meaning.
Beginning with a general introduction to exit planning and its importance as a business development tool, readers are then given an overview of such topics as the benefits of exit planning, the actual process, the roles of the various professionals in planning and implementing the exit plan, evaluating a business and obtaining maximum value, understanding and implementing various options, the importance of estate and financial planning, as well as other elements that are vital to effectuate a successful exit plan.
The presentation is alive and certainly not dry or abstract. Case histories are carefully integrated and effectively connected to the principle topic of a chapter. Moreover, the authors present clear directives and suggestions as how to plan your exit as well as how to put it into effect.
For example, if we look at the chapter pertaining to Business Valuation, the authors set out the vital components of an effective business valuation. A case study is presented where we read about a fifty-seven year old businessman who was ready to exit his business. He had planned to retire at fifty-five however the economy had softened resulting in a significant drop in his company's revenues and earnings. Unfortunately, he continued to work although he found it unfulfilling or energizing.
We are informed that two common mistakes were committed: first he had postponed planning his exit based on a gut feeling that things would get better and secondly he lost his enthusiasm. As he failed to secure proper business valuation, he didn't realize that the business could have been sold for much more than the asset value. Furthermore, his lack of enthusiasm prevented the business from bouncing back in the way it happened in the past. Sadly, our businessman at the age of sixty-three was diagnosed with prostate cancer and wound up selling his business for slightly less than he would have received six years earlier. From here the authors describe in detail how you can help clients avoid the same situation stressing the importance of a thorough evaluation and the different types of valuations, performed by different types of valuation advisors, for different reasons.
What I found particularly interesting in both editions of this book is the last chapter, Introducing Exit Planning Into Your Practice. For over thirty-five years I practiced law and a good part of my practice was devoted to estate planning. During the course of my practice there were many dramatic changes that affected our profession, particularly our earning capacity. Unfortunately, many of us lacked the imagination or the creativity to look around and find new specialties where we could step in and remedy our situation. Richard E. Jackim and Peter G. Christman have now provided a unique niche that as they state "will truly differentiate yourself." However, as they point out, "exit planning does not and should not replace your existing services. Exit planning is a framework in which your existing services and products provide valuable solutions to business owners."
The $10 Trillion Opportunity: Designing Successful Exit Strategies for Middle Market Business Owners (2nd Edition) is intelligently written and packed with a great deal of sound advice. As an added feature, the authors include a comprehensive glossary, a resource section and a helpful index.
Norm Goldman, Editor Bookpleasures
Book Description
Douglas Rushkoff’s latest salvo on complacent media culture, set in 2008, features Jamie Cohen, a young hacker who, like the biblical Joseph, suffers betrayal and then penance (via the talk-show circuit) before joining forces with a venture capitalist determined to turn everyone into mindless consumers. Meanwhile, Jamie’s former pals have developed a way to kill the Web’s — and the stock market’s — profit-making capacities. A dazzling satire of 1990s dot-com mania, this McLuhanesque cultural critique establishes a new publishing precedent: it is the first “open-source” ebook, annotated by online readers. This first print edition includes the best of their footnotes chosen by the author.
Customer Reviews:
plug-in.......2006-02-11
"EXIT STRATEGY, the body encoder that the technojunkie was debugged to the human body pill paradise apparatus of this abolition world plug-in, to send back out cruel emulator of hyperreal HIV=scanner form era respiration-byte." - Kenji Siratori, author of Blood Electric
new way to live the modern life.......2005-02-10
So everything is a game? If we don't think it is, if we take it too seriously we are going to end up being bulls or Jamie. But if we play it as a game, we will have fun? Then if we play the game, we have to understand the rules of the game. If we don't know that it is a game, we live in it, do we become "bad" charactors--bulls, or do we become "Jamie"--the painfully concious person? I think Rushkoff is telling the reader to play, engage, and get out. Engage, play, win or lose, get out.
Pleasant Surprise.......2003-12-12
You can tell Rushkoff is a greenhorn novelist, as the plot falters at points. You often get the feeling that he's trying a bit too hard, but the care that he put into the novel just seeps through to cover up in technical failings. I love the human face Rushkoff puts on the dot.com mentalities of the late 90's. I was just waiting to piss on this book (it was given to me by a friend that usally has taste of that sort), but it was at least moderately enjoyable all the way through and absolutely outstanding a great deal of the time as well. PLUS, Dzama's illustrations are just great. Only thing I wish it that there were more of them.
what a ride!.......2002-11-19
my god. this one blew me away. amazing i hadn't heard of it through normal review channels. destined to be a cult classic, rips through the end of the 20th century like no other satire. written in a wry witty way, with insight and humor.
weird to say, but it's a warm book about some cold people.
fantastic book .........2002-09-26
This is truly a must own book. If you are not familiar with this book, enjoy it, even savior it while you're reading it. This is the type of book that you never want to finish and when you do, you're practically bummed. The storyline is very innovative, the humor sharp and the pacings quick. The bottomline is this book is an excellent read.
I would love to go into particulars about the book but it's kind of a hard one to summarize. I would say that it's almost a cross of The Illuminatus Trilogy and SNOWCRASH. This next comment sounds like a lofty claim, but to me, this book was much better then stephenson's SNOW CRASH.
If you enjoy groundbreaking SCI-FI, I would highly recommend you looking further into this book. I can honestly say that it amazes me that this book never got more fanfare. Critics miss the boat all the time but this book is so good that it should have a grass roots or cult movement that keeps it selling.
Buy a copy, maybe that'll be the start, maybe not but I promise that after you finish reading the book you'll agree.
Average customer rating:
- Unmemorable
- what a read
- Fun ride
- A Good New Author!
- Exit Strategy by Wiecek
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Exit Strategy
Michael Wiecek
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BLIND FEAR
An assault on Blindside, a high-tech corporation dealing in computer espionage, leaves eight employees blown away. But the faceless killers made two mistakes: They left two witnesses.
BLIND TRUST
Postal employee Molly Gannon and hacker Jeb Picot are suspected by authorities as accomplices. They have only one way to clear their names: unearth the secrets buried in the ashes of Blindside.
BLIND ALLEY
But deceit, deception, and betrayal run deep. And Molly and Jeb can't imagine how far into a shadowy world they'll have to go to get to the truth, and make it out alive.
Customer Reviews:
Unmemorable.......2007-02-05
In the face of all these other reviews, how can I say "unmemorable?" Well, I read this book about 3 months ago, and honestly, I don't recall much about it. It's not even that I read a lot of books in a similar genre in the lasxt 3 months. It wasn't bad, or I'd remember that. It wasn't great, or I'd remember that. The story worked alright, but honestly, if you are looking for that exciting read, there are better and worse options out there. This was just not exceptional.
what a read.......2007-01-03
while not a classic of american literature it sure is a standout in it's genre. Great, quick read very entertaining. This is a great book for a trip or a lazy day off. While it does rehash several plots form recent movies and books, it still manages to come off as original. The charachters are believable and have enough of a back story to bring you up to speed without boring you to tears.
Fun ride.......2006-02-18
I just finished reading this book last night and would recommend this book. The characters have a past and the author does a good job fleshing out their backgrounds and motivations. The descriptions of San Francisco are good and the story, for an action / adventure novel, is plausible enough. I don't think you'd go wrong with this one.
A Good New Author!.......2006-02-16
This story takes place in San Francisco.The hero of this book
is Molly Gannon.She is a former MP who is now a postal employee.
An assault takes place while Gannon is delivering mail to
Blindside Corporation.Blindside is a high tech company dealing
in computor espionage,encryption,and code breaking.As a result of the assault eight employees are killed.Every computor in the
business is incinerated leaving no information.Gannon is abducted but finally escapes.Another survivor of the invasion is
Jeb Picot an expert hacker who has served time for previous hacking exploits.An attempt is made to kill Picot on the steps of the police station but Gannon rescues him.As a result Gannon
and Picot become the primary suspects in the Blindside killings.
This becomes a nationwide crime story.A Task Force headed by FBI agent Scott Norcross is created to get to the bottom of the killings.They discover many suspects in the case.Besides Gannon and Picot there is Wo Han Mok a Chinese triad and Dunshire a
NSA(National Security Agency)group who was buying Blindside.This
turns into an interesting book that will keep you guessing.
Exit Strategy by Wiecek.......2005-09-17
Good Book. Some rough spots, but overall a worthy effort.
Average customer rating:
- VERY helpful for an entrepreneur
- Do You Even Have One?
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What's Your Exit Strategy?: 7 Ways to Maximize the Value of the Business You've Built
Peter Engel
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
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If you're like most entrepreneurs, you probably haven't considered the most important step you'll ever take as a business owner—leaving. Did you know that by not having the right exit strategy in place—today—you're risking not only the wealth your business has created but also your own financial security? Too many entrepreneurs have forfeited millions through unwise divestitures. It doesn't have to be that way for you. This book shows you step by step how to develop an exit strategy that's right for you, your business, your employees, and your family.
In
What's Your Exit Strategy?, business expert
Peter H. Engel walks you through the proccess, describing in detail each of the exit strategies and their implications. You'll learn which of the following strategies will maximize your wealth:
• Selling to a startegic buyer—supplier, customer, or competitor
• Selling to a financial buyer
• Going public
• Selling to your heirs or employees
• Liquidating your assets
• Enforced liquidation
• Managing for life
Whether you're a brand-new entrepreneur or a long-time business owner,
What's Your Exit Strategy? is your blueprint for a secure—and profitable—future.
"Peter Engel's advice—that the right time to establish an exit strategy is at the start of a business—is enormously valuable. And the book's fun to read too."
—Sid Feltenstein, president & CEO of A&W Restaurants
"Having exited without reading Peter's book definitely hurt. Why wasn't it written when I sold my company?"
—Jeffery Ullman, founder & CEO of Great Expectations Video Dating Sevice
"A must-read for anyone who is serious about building a seriously successful business!"
—Dr. Jon Goodman, executive director of EC2 (The Annenberg Center Incubator Project), University of Southern California
About the Author
Peter H. Engel is a former senior corporate executive with Colgate Palmolive and a successful entrepreneur who has founded and profitably exited eight different companies. A prolific business writer, he has also been a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California's business school. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Customer Reviews:
VERY helpful for an entrepreneur.......2006-01-26
I guess I didn't really grasp how helpful a specific exit strategy is until I read this book. It is surprising how little literature is out there about this subject! I am on my second startup, and Engel's book has me thinking MUCH more clearly about how a specific exit plan affects all facets of strategy, from marketing, to product development, to financial bookkeeping, to corporate governance.
In particular, understanding that our company's end goal is to sell to a strategic buyer has helped us:
-focus product development so that software code and user interface can easily be integrated with that of our targeted buyers--we avoided using different programming languages and user interfaces.
-focus our sales efforts on gaining the largest customer base possible (since that's where our real value to the strategic buyer lies) versus just capturing immediate revenues through higher pricing (and thus fewer users), even if that means realizing lower margins in the short run; doing so will greatly enhance our sell-ability and attractiveness to our buyers--the big sell.
-focus cultivation of the RIGHT board of advisors. Currently, we rely on a group of solid, generally well connected, business men and women. Understanding our end goal better prods us to seek out one or two individuals who can augment our board, who are connected with the specific companies to whom we seek to sell, and to that industry at large. This should help us in guiding product development, initiating negotiations, and increasing our end value to the strategic buyer.
Much like Steven Covey's habit of "Starting with the end in mind," this book emphasizes how to do so in the context of strategic business planning. The book is very readable, has a few spots of humor, and is one I would highly recommend for anyone with a job. Not sure I would pay $43 in hardcover for it...that seems steep to me...I got mine from a library sale.
Do You Even Have One?.......2001-07-06
Engel offers seven ways "to maximize the value of the business you have built." His key point seems to be that, whether or not you plan to "exit" now or within the next 12-18 months, you still need to maximize and quantify the value of your company. He offers a wealth of information and insights which suggest HOW. For owners of privately-held companies, Engel's book will walk them through the process, defining the exit strategies and approaches to them, and then review their implications for funding, income building, personnel, corporate culture, expansion planning, and other matters encountered along the way. Here are the seven strategies:
* Selling to a strategic buyer
* Selling to a financial buyer
* Going public
* Liquidating your assets (that is, milking your business)
* Enforced liquidation
* Managing for life
Engel examines each of these seven strategies (or options) in detail. I am reminded of what Prime Minister Begin said, after formulating the accords with President Sadat at Camp David when asked how their agreement had been reached. "We did what all wise men do. We began at the end." Engel expresses a similar thought in the Conclusion: "The exit strategy, then, should be the first and last piece of the business puzzle every entrepreneur assembles. It ought to be the first decision entrepreneurs make because it has as much impact on their future as anything else -- and it will be their last decision because eventually they must exit." Why wait? Plan the exit strategy now. Engel explains HOW.
Book Description
There are over 11 million privately owned companies in the US employing over half the workforce and, while most business owners have spent years learning how to run and grow the business, virtually none have any idea about how to sell up until the time comes. Like death, we don't think about leaving and yet, with some simple planning, selling up can become both profitable and more enjoyable. Written by someone who has owned, built up a successful company and sold it, this book explains, in plain terms, how to sell a business. Planning, preparation, employing intermediaries, finding a quality buyer, negotiating a good price and avoiding potential traps are all explained with the candour you would expect from someone that has learnt the hard way. Graham Watkins does not pretend to be one of those so-called 'experts' who have never owned a company. He has watched the professionals at work and speaks from experience gained as he successfully and profitably sold his business.
Customer Reviews:
An amazing find.......2006-09-20
After months of research in trying to find a book to assist in selling my company I finally stumbled upon an informative, realistic and easy to use guide that has assisted me in the process of selling my business. I strongly recommend this book for anyone thinking about or begining such a long and tedious process, it's a diamond in the rough. Thank you Graham Watkins!!!!!!
This book is well written and very informative........2006-09-11
I found Graham's book an eye opener. His direct approach to business issues has changed the way I think about business. The strategies he describes are simple for any company owner to understand and apply to make their business more valuable and professional. It makes a refreshing change to find a business help book that offers new ideas. Not sure about the cowboys but the Orson Welles quote really made me sit up and think.
Excellent!!!.......2006-09-10
Wonderful read - very educational!
Good ideas and things to know prior to selling your own business.
Glad i read it before i sell my place!!
An essential read! The best I have found........2006-09-09
This book answered all my questions from start to finish. Finally someone with great ideas and tips.
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- If you like Jane Heller, you'll love this!
- Adventures of Becky Weston
- As much fun as Susan Isaacs!
- West Coast Merry-Go-Round
- Thoroughly Enjoyable!
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Exit Strategies
Catherine Todd
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Once upon a time, Becky Weston had an enviable existence -- until the Volvo, the Spanish-Style house overlooking the Pacific, and the money vanished for a much younger trophy wife. And when her ex dies, leaving the purse strings in the greedy hands of Mrs. Number Two, Becky is truly left out in the cold. Having put herself through six years of night law school, the struggling single mother is now the oldest new associate in a small, aspiring law firm -- and expected to devote her life to nothing but work. Stranded in an office of sharp-elbowed young turks, Becky finds herself scrambling to cling to the fast track, and a personal life seems out of the question. But the arrival of a new client -- bestselling author, glamorous anti-aging guru, and Becky's college archnemesis Bobbie Crystol -- could be an unanticipated godsend. Doing the designer-clad, jewelry-bedecked charlatan's biddingforces Becky to weigh doing the morally right thing against the firm's bottomline. But it may also help Becky devise a foolproof exit strategy ... with some rather unexpected dividends.
Customer Reviews:
If you like Jane Heller, you'll love this!.......2002-04-30
Written in the same vain as Jane Heller, this novel portrays a middle-aged single mom, stuck in what we call the "sandwich generation." Alternately worried about her kids and her elderly mom, while trying to juggle a career as a newly-graduated corporate attorney, this novel is realistic in showing her struggles, but always with a keen sense of humor. Just enough love interest and intrigue to keep you going. A perfect novel, and I'll look for more of Catherine Todd's books.
Adventures of Becky Weston.......2002-04-29
Becky Weston is now a first year associate at the law firm of Roth, Tolbert and Anderson in upscale La Jolla after having worked her way through law school while working as a receptionist at the firm. She divorced her physician husband years ago and has raised two children while also caring for her elderly mother. In a cruel twist of fate, her ex-husband died and left his new spiteful wife as the executor of the trust fund upon which Becky is dependent for her son's tuition at a private college. When her mother falls and breaks a hip the delicate balance of her life starts to crumble. The trust fund payments are reduced, her younger daughter needs a prom dress, her son's tuition payments are overdue, and she must check her mother into an assisted living facility.
When Becky is chosen by a college friend, who is now a glamorous anti-aging guru, to be the lawyer for her firm everyone, including Becky, is amazed at this coup. She hadn't known Bobbie Crystol very well during school, and is puzzled by this appointment, but vows to do her best to represent the company's interests. Some of the rumors she starts to hear about the company concern her, and she is suspicious of the treatments and supplements that are offered at the spa to which she is invited as a guest.
Becky also meets again the man who had been her therapist during her divorce, and wonders what kind of relationship she can have with a man who already knows her innermost secrets and weaknesses. He seems too good to be true, but the balance is off, because he knows so much about her and she so little about him.
Throughout the book, Becky struggles with balancing her home and work life and questions the ethics of her profession and her associates at the firm. The expectations of a fledgling lawyer overwhelm her, and she wonders whether she can make the commitment to spending the rest of her working life as a workaholic.
I enjoyed and commiserated with the challenges faced by Becky and the way in which she faced them head-on and resolved them. I hope the author considers writing this wonderful, resilient character into the plot of future novels.
As much fun as Susan Isaacs!.......2002-03-06
I have enjoyed Ms. Todd's books for years, before she was writing this genre, and her sparkle and sense of humor make this an extremely fun and absorbing read. Highly recommended!
West Coast Merry-Go-Round.......2002-02-09
2-8-02
Keeping yoyr options open while living a laid back, but fast-paced life is the epitome of what we think of as the California style. "Exit Strategies" by Catherine Todd, who lives in San Diego, knows the territory.
Our heroine, Becky Weston, a single mother, has put herself through law school and moved from receptionist to associate in a small, but prestigious law firm in upscale La Jolla. In the first paragraph, the head of the firm is described as "Armani Adonis" so with this snappy economy of language we know that he cuts an attractive figure and that Becky has a bit of crush on him.
It is this well-crafted use of description and dialogue that gives all of the characters dimension so that the reader is interested in their daily trials and tribulations and how they react with one another. When Becky's ex dies unexpectedly, leaving his second wife as trustee, life becomes much more complicated.
The frantic pursuit of youthfulness and the medical machinations that take advantage of the gullible is one thread; having a shrink, and money hiding in offshore bank accounts are others. How Becky keeps all her balloons in the air without a misstep keeps the pages turning to the amusement and enjoyment of the reader. The book is a well-crafted, light-hearted, sophisticated romp along our Pacific rim.
Thoroughly Enjoyable!.......2002-01-26
Cathy Todd is a wonderful modern author. Like her previous books, Making Waves and Staying Cool, Exit Strategies gets to the heart of women's feelings but does it through an exciting, amusing story. This is a thoroughly enjoyable book!
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