Desperate Puppets

Here’s the set-up:

It’s bad enough being a financial analyst recovering from war trauma, but to be battling the worst job market in decades simply adds insult to injury and leaves Damien feeling powerless. When his best friend, a private banker, is threatened by a client, together they uncover a violent scam that originates in the world financial markets and involves the most prestigious Wall Street banks, the murky world of organized crime, and the highest levels of government. In a desperate attempt to protect his family from the sinister forces closing in on him, an overmatched but desperate man designs his own lethal strategy for justice. Damien soon learns that justice and power have their own dark elements and that his strategy has as much of a chance of failure as it does of success.