20 Great Thrillers, June 2012

FIFTEEN DIGITS by Nick Santora contains two sets of characters: the attorneys of a powerful firm in the upper reaches of a Manhattan office tower, and the poor drones working in the basement copy room, printing and duplicating documents which contain millions of dollars’ worth of trading information. The basement lads, with some encouragement, hatch a scheme to get rich quick and they do, at least for a while. You’ll see the train wreck coming from a long way away but you’ll hang on every word of this cautionary tale about giving up what you want most for what you want now.