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Stephen Rhodes's story, "At the Top of His Game," has been selected for inclusion the prestigious Best American Mystery Stories 2008 anthology! And two other stories, "The Enlightenment of Magnus McKay" by John Burdett and "A Trader's Lot" by Twist Phelan, have been selected as finalists in the Best Short Story for the 2008 Derringer Awards.

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Launched by the summer '04 award-winning, best-seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.

Brand new stories by: John Burdett, Henry Blodget, Peter Blauner, Jason Starr, Megan Abbott, Reed Farrel Coleman, Stephen Rhodes, Twist Phelan, Tim Broderick, Jim Fusilli, David Noonan, Richard Aleas, Lawrence Light, James Hime, Mark Haskell Smith, Peter Spiegelman, and Lauren Sanders.

From a distance, on television, say, or in the pages of the business section, it looks like such a clean, well-lighted place--a place where decisions to buy or sell are guided by formulas and subtle strategy, and thorough, dispassionate consideration of all available facts. A place where cool reason prevails. And sure, that's one version of Wall Street--call it the CNBC edition. But this book is about another place, just beneath that shiny surface--a place where fear and greed have always held sway. Think WorldCom or Tyco; think Enron. Think Gordon Gekko. Call it a doppelganger, a broken mirror-image, an evil twin. Call it Wall Street Noir.

Wall Street Noir, the latest addition to Akashic Books' acclaimed series of crime fiction anthologies, casts a stark light on the darkest ends of the Street, to illuminate a place whose boundaries have spread well beyond Trinity Church and the East River. In today's relentlessly global economy, Wall Street is everywhere: a borderless, virtual city encompassing Midtown Manhattan, Main Street, U.S.A., the maquilas of Honduras, the office towers of Shanghai, and the brothels of Bangkok. It's a shadowy metropolis, as the stories in this exciting collection reveal, and one that's far more Jim Thompson than Warren Buffet.

The volume's contributors range across this landscape in seventeen dark, sometimes darkly funny, tales of hungry egos, cutthroat competition, cultural clashes, sweaty paranoia, not-so-innocent bystanders, and desperate deals with a wide variety of devils.

Peter Spiegelman is the Shamus AwardÐwinning author of Black Maps, Death's Little Helpers, and Red Cat (all published by Knopf), which feature private detective and Wall Street refugee John March. Mr. Spiegelman is a twenty-year veteran of the financial services and software industries, and has worked with banks, brokerage houses and central banks in major markets around the world. He lives in Connecticut.