Amazon All Things That Matters Press Category:  Action/Thriller Publisher: All Things That Matters Press ISBN-10:  0984421947 Type: Fiction Pages: 386 Copyright: April 16, 2010 How easy is it for an investment banker to deceive his clients? Very, particularly if his hero is Bernie Madoff. Are you an investor? Do you trust your broker to do as you ask with your money? Based on a true story, The Swindler will show you how easy it is for your broker to deceive you.   Skip Horowitz, the main character, has followed in the footsteps of his personal hero, Bernie Madoff, if perhaps, on a smaller scale. Instead of conning people for billions of dollars Skip Horowitz organizations have taken hundreds of millions of dollars and used them as if they were their own. Here’s how it works….     Skip and his old pal from Jersey, A.J., create what they believe is a foolproof Ponzi Scheme using commodities trading, bookmaking, and various other businesses as a plausible cover. Their plan has served them well for decades. Skip is seen as the “Teflon man” by his competitors and feels he is invincible.       As Skip becomes more and more successful his lavish lifestyle and highly touted regular rate of returns comes under the scrutiny of the SEC, NFA, and CFTC who oversee commodities trading. Investigations by these governmental oversight agencies have been on and off for quite some time because there has been no solid proof to support any allegations of wrongdoing. Will Skip’s luck continue to hold or is his time up?  Excerpt The Swindler is available in paperback, e-format via download or e-book that interfaces with the Kindle or Mobipocket Readers. It can be orderred directly from the publishers or from www.amazon.com. Rave reviews can be found for The Swindler on www.americanchronicle.com/MichelleMalsbury

Marilou Trask-Curtin
Marilou Review for TheSwindler
Michelle: First of all, congrats on an absolutely incredible book!!! Have you also written this as a screenplay????!!!! Would be amazing to watch and the timing seems right as well.

I only found a couple of blips but after I wrote them down lost the note where I had written the page numbers. The main one: There was mention of the basketball team the KNICKS...you had it written as the NICKS...that would need to be corrected as we New Yorker's who are KNICKS fans would probably retaliate by throwing soggy basketballs your way--LOL...otherwise, an incredible story...!!!

The Review: "The Swindler" - an incredibly fast-paced roller-coaster ride through the world of illegal commodities trading with enough sun and sin to heat up every reader's day (and night.) Michelle Malsbury at her finest! A definite must read!

Marilou Trask-Curtin, Author of "In My Grandfather's House:
A Catskill Journal"

Thanks again for the opportunity to read "The Swindler" and I wish you all the best with it. Also, sorry it took so long....

Take care
Marilou

PS: I love the way you got MJ into the story with the crotch grabbing episode :-]



Billy O'Toole Review
Hi Michelle,

During a long and successful career in the trucking business, I always carried a stack of books to entertain myself and hopefully learn a little something also. One of my favorites was Steven Frey because he always had some insights into the dark side of finance along with great characters. Move over Frey and make room for Michelle Malsbury!

The Swindler has great characters, some lovable, and some not, but all believable. Indeed, I felt like I already knew many and were acquainted with several others. There were the obvious evil ones but the mindset of good ones being led along and seduced by money and the good life was particularly poignant.

When my business blew up because I had no customers anymore, I began to study finance moved to being a Senior Financial Consultant. In the process of interviews and study I felt like I met many of her characters, things just didn't feel right, but oh so seductive!

All this set in quirky and sultry southern Florida, I could feel the humidity, see the pastels, and revel in the ambience. What more could anyone want in book?

Bill O'Toole

Senior Financial Consultant

Southern Commercial Corp

Columbia, Mo.

573 808 2122


Judy Ramsook Review
Judy Ramsook from the Austin News Service, Austin, TX 4/9/10 Review for The Swindler

In The Swindler, by Michelle Malsbury, you will find yourself being pulled in to a fictional tale of romance and a lot commodities swindling through the eyes of a third person narrator.

So come along and meet true to life and memorable characters such as: Catherine, The Realtor/Commodities Broker, Connie, Catherine’s best friend, Shamus, Real Estate Broker and the man who thinks he is the right man for Catherine and last but not least, Skip Horowitz, a ruthless Ponzi Schemer who is being investigated by the Feds.

It’s a gripping tale that will make you want to keep turning those pages to see what happens next.

Set in Key West, Florida, the author displays her vast love for and knowledge of the area so well, that if you have not been there and know nothing about Key West, perusing The Swindler by Michelle Malsbury will indeed give you a rich education into that paradise.

So come on and enjoy this well written and detailed tale and see if Catherine really thinks Shamus is the right man for her, and if the elusive Skip Horowitz gets the justice he so deserves.

I enjoyed it and I think you will too.