The Castro Gene by Todd Buchholz named Award-Winning Finalist in the

The Castro Gene by Todd Buchholz named Award-Winning Finalist in the

National Best Books 2007 Awards

Oceanview Publishing is pleased to announce that The Castro Gene by Todd Buchholz has been named an Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction and Literature: Mystery and Suspense category of the National Best Books 2007 Awards.

An annual awards program now in its fourth year, The Best Books Awards is sponsored by USABookNews.com, the premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses. 

Extraordinarily timely and controversial, The Castro Gene (Oceanview, ISBN-13: 978-1-933515-06-9, $24.95) sweeps readers into the secretive and dangerous world of hedge funds, along with the explosive politics of Havana and Washington, D.C.  Only someone with Buchholz’s experience could have created this fast-paced thriller.  An internationally known financial commentator, award-winning economics professor at Harvard, renowned hedge fund guru, and best-selling author of New Ideas from Dead Economists, Buchholz, according to the Associated Press, “lights up economics with a wickedly sparkling wit.”

The Castro Gene combines that wit with crackling, page-turning suspense and a plot destined to leave readers wondering where fact ends and fiction begins. The storyline:

In the last days of his dictatorship, Fidel Castro risks one last mission.  And one young man is forced to stand in his way. 

After tragedy mars his boxing career, young Luke Braden tries to reinvent himself as a Wall Street hotshot. While toiling as a security guard, he is swept up into the high-flying domain of hedge fund king Paul Tremont.  Being Tremont’s protégé certainly has its perks—Luke trades in his ratty basement apartment for a penthouse view, his worn gym clothes for designer suits. But there are strings attached—and Paul Tremont is tugging those strings.  Tremont is grooming Luke for something—but for what?  Why would this wealthy, eccentric, mogul need a washed-up boxer? The answer lies not in what Luke Braden is, but who Luke Braden is.  Paul Tremont knows the truth:  Luke Braden is the only man who can execute Tremont’s diabolical scheme.

Will Luke escape a shocking conspiracy of the past—or, for that matter, the jarring truth of the present? Luke Braden is in for the fight of his life—or the fight for his life.  Intricately plotted with unexpected twists and breathtaking turns that reveal hidden secrets of Vegas’s Rat Pack days and the most astonishing theory of the Kennedy assassination to burst forth in 40 years, The Castro Gene is a knockout.

Todd Buchholz is an international bestselling author, former White House Director of Economic Policy, managing director of the Tiger hedge fund and co-producer of the Tony Award®-winning musical Jersey Boys. He is a founder of the Two Oceans Fund, which invests in Central America.   His latest work of nonfiction is New Ideas from Dead CEOs (HarperCollins).

Oceanview Publishing (www.oceanviewpub.com) is an independent publisher based in Massachusetts.  Members of the news media wishing to request review copies, interviews or additional information are kindly asked to contact Maryglenn McCombs by phone – (615) 297-9875, or by email – maryglenn@maryglenn.com.

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