Living on the edge was a way of life for myself as a former Naval Aviator with 150 plus carrier landings and later as an investment banker who traded on Wall Street and finally a survivor of facing my deepest fears in surrendering to love ~ but former Commodity floor trader Dale Brandon's fast paced thriller Fear Runner touches all those fear bases and more in its electrifying 367 pages: Allen L Roland, PhD
Scott
Quinn, commodity floor
trader, was definitely living on the edge when we
meet him on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade ~ " The trading
floor of the Chicago Board of Trade marked the center of Scott Quinn's world ~
a world racing toward meltdown, recent losses had already dealt his career a
severe blow, but his ultimate fate depended on decisions he would make during
the next fifty minutes. He hoped to survive the day, but he knew markets rarely
accommodated scared money."
But not
without some introspection ~ " He leaned back and stared at the
wall. Deep within, in some fragile part of his psyche, he struggled with his
intense fear of failing in the market. Failing as his father had nearly 20
years earlier. He felt as if he had lost several years of his life in a few
days."
The
frantic life of commodities floor trader Scott Quinn are
depicted in the
two opening paragraphs of Dale Brandon's Fear Runner but not without
some further insight as Scott left his office that day
with his partner ~ " They left
the office, passing several colleagues returning from the trading
floor. They saw a startling range of emotions on
the trader's faces. Some had made huge profits, but others had suffered
devastating losses. Scott marveled at the ability of the human face to reveal
complex emotions so graphically. Pain, joy, agony, greed, confusion and
desperation ~ and they were all there."
It's
all here,
in Fear Runner ~ the
frantic up and down world of a commodity floor
trader and
Brandon has set up Scott perfectly to
come to the edge and experience the unknown ~ in terms of pain, joy, agony, greed, confusion, murder but above all
love, the ultimate soul based teacher ~ in this intense and suspenseful barn burner as
he switches rapidly from character to character as
well as crisis to crisis.
When you
fall in love, you fall into a rabbit hole of soul consciousness which will test all of your courage and defenses, as it did with
Scott ~ and most
certainly what I have experienced ~ and Dale Brandon does an excellent job of
describing the perils of that soul journey as well as the courage it takes to follow and live it.
In essence, The Fear
Runner was Scott who finally conquered his fears and demons by surrendering to
love ~ and found himself in the process. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time became the right place at the right time in the realm of love and the path of the heart for both Scott and Lauren in Fear Runner.
"Think
not that you can control the course of love, for love, if it finds you
worthy, directs your course": Khalil Gibran
Fear Runner is available on eBook and Trade Paperback at both Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com. The eBook is $3.99. The paperback is $14.99.
Most
people are not aware that you do NOT need a Kindle to read an Amazon eBook. You
can download a free program from Amazon called Kindle for PC, and read it on
your computer. Link below:
Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor Allen L Roland can be contacted at allen@allenroland.com Allen is also a lecturer and writer who shares a weekly political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com. He is also featured columnist on Veterans Today and guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net
Being in the wrong place at the wrong time became the right place at the right time in the realm of love and the path of the heart for both Scott and Lauren.
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