Download or read book Chaos Kings written by Scott Patterson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fascinating deep dive into the world of billion-dollar traders and high-stakes crisis predictors who strive to turn extreme events into financial windfalls. There's no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, cyberattacks, political radicalization--virtually, everywhere we look there is mayhem bearing down on us, putting trillions of assets at risk." --

Download or read book Bash written by Sapphire Knight and published by Sapphire Knight. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bash Sweet Savannah Mae hit me out of nowhere…or, I should say, I hit her—literally. My bike smashed right into her. Talk about a way to make a lasting impression. One look at her, and I swore I’d met an angel. She was the light to my dark that stirred up emotions I didn’t think I possessed. In a blink, Savannah becomes everything to me. When I find out the truth she’s hiding, it rocks my world. I’m the vice president of the Kings of Carnage MC—a spot I’ve earned. If any man thinks they can harm what’s mine, they’ve got another thing coming. But, so do I, because Savannah isn’t all she seems. No, my woman’s an angel with a spine of steel. She doesn’t need a knight in shining armor to save her. She needs a pair of wings to help her fly. -A Gritty MC romance with a brand new club, characters, and storyline. -Bash is a complete standalone that does not need any other books read prior. -Steamy romantic suspense full of action, alpha bad boys, and strong women. Gear up for an explosive new series from 6 bestselling Authors you love! Hilary Storm - President, Sapphire Knight - Vice President, Chelsea Camaron - Road Captain, M.N. Forgy - Enforcer, Nicole James - Treasurer, Kim Jones - Prospect

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Download or read book Chaos Kings MC written by Linny Lawless and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love free and ride hardcore with the Chaos Kings MCSalvation in Chaos RatchetI don't give a damn what she's done to survive. I will protect what's mine and keep her safe from the Hell she escaped from. SamThe huge scruffy biker who called himself Ratchet of the Chaos Kings MC claimed me as his. Deep in ChaosSkullyI turned on my brothers, my club - the Hell Hounds MC. Why? It's simple. I was done and wanted out. TanyaMy stomach flipped the second I saw Skully for the first time. But he was off limits. There was no way I could ever be with him. He was a Hell Hound and could never be trusted. Coveted by ChaosGunnerI want to touch her, to breathe her in. But can I do that without letting her see the monster that I am? FionaThe King comes in to watch me dance at Cheetah. He's unapproachable, unreadable but still, I sense his primal sexual energy. Almost as if he's a panther on the prowl. Claimed in ChaosKatI've had a crazy crush on Magnet ever since the moment I laid eyes on him. He was the most gorgeous man I had ever seen, a biker who looked like a sexy pagan god! MagnetThe wind gets knocked out of me when Kat shows up for the ride and I really see her for the very first time. Now she's all I can ever think about. But when my own brothers in the club see that sexy little kitten, I realize Kat is the only woman I've ever wanted to claim for myself.

Download or read book Kings of Chaos written by Katie Ball and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've been on the run for the last seven years. Hiding from a dark figure of my past. Terrified he'll catch up with me. I've managed six months in the same town without any sign of the monster that haunts my dreams.Then a mysterious package shows up.He's found me.I have a choice to make. Keep running and carry on living my life in fear.Or maybe its time to let someone help me.And there's no one better than the president of the local MC.Talon Kennedy.The only man that has ever captured my attention. The only man to ever make me feel...burning desire.He's dangerous but that's what I need.Can he protect me from the monster that hunts for me?Will I end up falling for this big bad biker king? Only one way to find out.Book one in the Kings of Chaos series.Cliff-hanger in this book.

Download or read book The Chaos King written by Laura Ruby and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Georgie and Bug, a year older, have been pulled apart by the demands of their newfound fame and fortune, but join forces again when a punk, vampires, a giant sloth, and other creatures come after them on the streets of a New York City of the future.

Download or read book King of Chaos written by Dave Gross and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the world of the role-playing game, Pathfinder.

Download or read book Chaos in America written by John Lafayette King and published by Amer West Pub & Dist. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information on the current economic decline with the validating history. Despite the chaos, learn how to survive and prosper with investments, real estate, food, energy, and self defense. Includes: Why industrial capitalism succeeded; Signs of economic crisis; Long historical cycles; Usury and its consequences; and Debt-free money and more.

Download or read book Free the Darkness written by Kel Kade and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised and trained in seclusion at a secret fortress on the edge of the northern wilds of the Kingdom of Ashai, a young warrior called Rezkin is unexpectedly thrust into the outworld when a terrible battle destroys all that he knows. With no understanding of his life's purpose and armed with masterful weapons mysteriously bestowed upon him by a dead king, Rezkin must travel across Ashai to find the one man who may hold the clues to his very existence.Determined to adhere to his last orders, Rezkin extends his protection to an unlikely assortment of individuals he meets along the way, often leading to humorous and poignant incidents.As if pursuing an elite warrior across a kingdom, figuring out who he is and why everyone he knows is dead, and attempting to find these so-called friends and protect them is not enough, strange things are happening in the kingdom. New dangers begin to arise that threaten not only Rezkin and his friends, but possibly everyone in Ashai.

Download or read book Dueling with Kings written by Daniel Barbarisi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of Bringing Down the House and The Wolf of Wall Street, “an engrossing and often hilarious behind-the-scenes look at the characters, compulsions, and chaos inside the fantasy sports gold rush. It’s the perfect meld of a sports and business book, engagingly written like a fun, page-turning novel” (The Wall Street Journal). Daniel Barbarisi quit his job as a New York Yankees beat writer and began a quest to join the top one percent of Daily Fantasy Sports (“DFS”) players, the so-called “sharks,” in hopes to discover the secrets behind this phenomenon—and potentially make some money along the way. DFS is fantasy sports on steroids. It’s the domain of bitter rivals FanDuel and DraftKings, online juggernauts who turned a legal loophole into a billion-dollar industry by allowing sports fans to bet piles of cash constructing fantasy teams. Yet as Barbarisi quickly realizes, what should have been a fun companion to casual sports viewing was instead a ferocious environment infested with sharks, a top tier of pros wielding complex algorithms, drafting hundreds of lineups, and wagering six figures daily as they bludgeon unsuspecting amateur “fish.” Barbarisi embeds himself inside the world of DFS, befriending and joining its rogue’s gallery as he tries to beat them at their own game. In a work equal parts adventure and rigorously reported investigation, Barbarisi wades into this chaotic industry at the very moment its existence is threatened by lawmakers sick of its Wild West atmosphere and pushy advertising. All their money made FanDuel and DraftKings seem invincible; but, as Barbarisi reports, they made plenty of dubious—perhaps even scandalous—moves as they vied for market supremacy. In Dueling with Kings, Barbarisi uncovers the tumultuous inside story of DFS, all while capturing its peculiar cast of characters, from wide-eyed newly minted millionaires, to sun-starved math geeks, to bros living an endless frat party of keggers and Playboy Bunnies. Can he outwit them all and make it to the top?

Download or read book A Lighter Shade of Blue written by Shyla Colt and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assigned the role of keeper of her older sister, Calla, Bluebell Strong has spent her life cleaning up messes. Frustrated, unappreciated, and repressed, Blue drifts away from her family. Suddenly, a jail sentence lands Calla in prison. She then becomes her nephew, Bolton's guardian. Pulled headfirst back into the life of the Kings of Chaos M.C. she struggles to find a balance between who she must be and who she's always wanted to be. Bolton's father, Shadow, the man she crushed on since she was a teen, returns from prison. These back to back events forces her to choose between duty and happiness. After serving three years in jail for a brother, Kings of Chaos enforcer, Shadow is done denying himself. The silent man, known for making problems dissapear spent years holding onto a secret that kept him from the one thing he wants most, Blue. Beneath the hardened exterior of this Warrior, rests a heart that beats for one woman. Laying all his cards on the table, he risks upsetting the balance among the Strongs and the club to complete the family he always wanted.

Download or read book Chaos Monkeys written by Antonio Garcia Martinez and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback and featuring a new afterword from the author—the insider's guide to the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, the inner workings of the tech world, and who really runs Silicon Valley “Incisive.... The most fun business book I have read this year.... Clearly there will be people who hate this book — which is probably one of the things that makes it such a great read.” — Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a datacenter powering everything from Google to Facebook. Infrastructure engineers use a software version of this “chaos monkey” to test online services’ robustness—their ability to survive random failure and correct mistakes before they actually occur. Tech entrepreneurs are society’s chaos monkeys. One of Silicon Valley’s most audacious chaos monkeys is Antonio García Martínez. After stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his own startup, García Martínez joined Facebook’s nascent advertising team. Forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company’s monetization strategy, García Martínez eventually landed at rival Twitter. In Chaos Monkeys, this gleeful contrarian unravels the chaotic evolution of social media and online marketing and reveals how it is invading our lives and shaping our future.

Download or read book The Quants written by Scott Patterson and published by Currency. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the immediacy of today’s NASDAQ close and the timeless power of a Greek tragedy, The Quants is at once a masterpiece of explanatory journalism, a gripping tale of ambition and hubris, and an ominous warning about Wall Street’s future. In March of 2006, four of the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes, but those numbers meant nothing to them. They were accustomed to risking billions. On that night, these four men and their cohorts were the new kings of Wall Street. Muller, Griffin, Asness, and Weinstein were among the best and brightest of a new breed, the quants. Over the prior twenty years, this species of math whiz--technocrats who make billions not with gut calls or fundamental analysis but with formulas and high-speed computers--had usurped the testosterone-fueled, kill-or-be-killed risk-takers who’d long been the alpha males the world’s largest casino. The quants helped create a digitized money-trading machine that could shift billions around the globe with the click of a mouse. Few realized, though, that in creating this unprecedented machine, men like Muller, Griffin, Asness and Weinstein had sowed the seeds for history’s greatest financial disaster. Drawing on unprecedented access to these four number-crunching titans, The Quants tells the inside story of what they thought and felt in the days and weeks when they helplessly watched much of their net worth vaporize--and wondered just how their mind-bending formulas and genius-level IQ’s had led them so wrong, so fast.

Download or read book Chaos Kings written by Scott Patterson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wall Street Journal Bestseller Written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fascinating deep dive into the world of billion-dollar traders and high-stakes crisis predictors who strive to turn extreme events into financial windfalls. There’s no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, cyberattacks, political radicalization—virtually, everywhere we look there is mayhem bearing down on us, putting trillions of assets at risk. And at least two factions have formed around how to respond. In Chaos Kings, Scott Patterson depicts how one faction, led by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, bestselling author of The Black Swan, believes humans can never see the big disaster coming. In their view, extreme events—so-called Black Swans—while inevitable, will always catch us by surprise. In 2007, Taleb’s longtime collaborator, Mark Spitznagel, launched the Universa hedge fund, which would go on to make billions protecting investors against unforeseen chaos in the market. A second faction, which relies on complex formulas, believes looming chaos can be detected. Chief among these risk prognosticators is Didier Sornette, a colorful French mathematician who enjoys riding his motorcycle at speeds in excess of 170 miles per hour. When Sornette looks out from what he calls his Financial Crisis Observatory in Zurich, Switzerland, what he sees are Dragon Kings—punishing events that are unlikely to occur but have probabilities that can be predicted…and defended against. Which faction is right? All of our financial futures may depend on the answer.

Download or read book King s Chaos written by Alexandra Gardner and published by AGardnerBooks. This book was released on 2021-10-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When worlds collide: A Hunter trained to follow orders and the Sibyl of legend and time must work together to stay alive, if they don't kill each other first. Samantha Anders is over the BS in her life. She can't count the number of times Cardinal Sun mages have attacked her, threatened her, and been a general pain in her ass. Being the only Sibyl has made her life a living hell. It isn't like she asked for the ability to see across time. When the ancient magic of Chaos flares, Sam is dragged back sixteen hundred years into the past and thrown at the mercy of new enemies. If that isn't bad enough, Jeph, the self-confident mage trying to kill her, is taken along for the ride. Luckily for Sam, he needs to keep her alive in order to get home. Unfortunately, he's a rude, obnoxious flirt who likes to kill people-which would be fine, except altering the past means irrevocably changing their future. If they can survive the Dark Ages, they'll be forced to face each other?and the war within their hearts.

Download or read book Fate of the Fallen written by Kel Kade and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fate of the Fallen is the start of a brand new adventure from New York Times bestselling author Kel Kade Not all stories have happy endings. Everyone loves Mathias. Naturally, when he discovers it’s his destiny to save the world, he dives in head first, pulling his best friend Aaslo along for the ride. However, saving the world isn’t as easy, or exciting, as it sounds in the stories. The going gets rough and folks start to believe their best chance for survival is to surrender to the forces of evil, which isn’t how the prophecy goes. At all. As the list of allies grows thin, and the friends find themselves staring death in the face they must decide how to become the heroes they were destined to be or, failing that, how to survive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Spun written by Shyla Colt and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to a King of Chaos patch holder with a case of wanderlust and a self-centered mother, twenty-one-year-old Nevada Weber is used to taking care of herself. She's spent her life skating by on her wits and pure determination. When she lands in a situation, she can't haggle her way out of; she's forced to rely on another brother for help.Club enforcer Gage "Wizard" Carmody has done his job too well over the years. Icy and numb on the inside, he walks around in a prison of his making. When the bright green-eyed girl he helped raise winds up unclaimed and in need of protection he steps in seeking redemption.In a life where destruction lurks around the corner, they discover something with the potential to bring healing and happiness. But when you live in Chaos, nothing goes as planned.