A Novel About a Speculative Investor

Brad: Can you talk a little bit about the character that you created at the centre of this novel. And perhaps some listeners have not read the book, so the briefest sort of synopsis may be in order. It's a whole novel whose character is called benjamin a rasq, and he is most likely the richest man in the world. The second section of my book is an unfinished autobiography by a, in arquotes, real life tycoon. We very soon discover that this is the real person on whom that first novel within the novel was based. I tried to endow him with with humanity, with feelingsdand we see this mostly in his relationship with his

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