A memoir of forty years — Brooklyn collections work, a federal conviction, the Wall Street trading floor, Black Monday, addiction, recovery, and a securities career rebuilt from a handshake and thirty thousand dollars. Complete. 75,000 words. 

  "Before I ever made a market, I made collections. The work was simple in theory: someone owed Frankie Doc money, and Frankie Doc sent us to remind them that debt had a physical dimension." .

 The 1980s trading floor has been documented from the outside — journalists reconstructing the excess, prosecutors tracing the fraud. This is the view from inside, told by someone who understood the culture because he had already learned to operate in systems where the written rules and the operating rules were two different documents. 

  A prestige geopolitical thriller set in an alternate Cold War where World War II ended in negotiated settlement rather than total victory. The institutions built to manage that fragile peace have been operating quietly for decades — until the system designed to prevent conflict begins evolving beyond human control. 

   • From the Streets to the Street — complete memoir (75,000 words). Seeking literary representation.
• The Shadow Republic — novel complete; prequel novella complete; sequel in progress. Developed for television adaptation. 

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