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This review contains big spoilers - you have been warned.

[Major Spoiler for this book and The Colour of Law (click to open)]

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Chris Arnade, who may have coined the phrase "front row kids," came from a hardscrabble neighborhood in Florida, earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, discovered that using his quantitative skills to value derivatives proved more rewarding than using them to get funding for some time on a particle accelerator.  Then the financial crash happened.  ( Read more... )

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