Harry Broadtape, Volume II - The Expatriate Years

Book excerpt: After fifteen years of productive self-indulgence on Wall Street, Harry Broadtape is now about to change his venue. Over the protest of his band of misfits and co-conspirators, Harry makes a big move to Vancouver BC and a partnership with an aging German expatriate to help fill in the blanks to his next scheme of exploitation - the breakdown in the international payment system. Included in the package is the Old Man's twenty-five year old assistant. This outspoken, street smart, gorgeous creature of Northern Italian extraction is more than a match for our diabolical, but ambition-less hero. Not since Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man series of books and motion pictures, has there been a couple that has gotten themselves into and out of more trouble than Harry and his Anna Maria. Gold, oil and the international currencies markets with all their attendant geopolitical intrigue now become the palate for our favorite artist's anti-Establishment renderin