The Last Matador

Henry Rothman has it all: an eight-thousand-square-foot home in Mendham, New Jersey, a spectacular beach house on Long Beach Island complete with a vintage seventy-four-foot sailboat, a new Bentley Continental, and now—finally—he has Elaine, a stunning young woman working for the head of bond trading at Maxim United Securities. A rising star on the mortgage desk, Henry seems determined and destined to keep on winning, even against the building headwinds of the looming subprime mortgage crisis and Wall Street meltdown. Henry Rothman has a world of troubles: his appetite for money, beautiful women, and validation at work lead him down a slippery slope that forces him to risk everything he has worked for. It is only when Henry finds himself in Spain, standing in the arena, staring down a 1,200-pound bull, that he realizes he is no longer in control…of anything. Four lives on two continents are tested as the decisions Henry makes come to an unpredictable and passionate climax—that no one sees coming.