Kotov Syndrome is the 1st book in the international bestselling Zero Sum serial trilogy of Wall Street thrillers. The story begins with Kotov Syndrome, & continues in Focal Point & Checkmate. - - - Wall Street. Where intelligence agencies & the financial industry are strange bedfellows, & the two worlds are often intertwined in disturbing ways. In this chillingly plausible scenario of a military/industrial/financial complex run amok, Zero Sum pits Dr. Steven Archer against powerful financier Nicholas Griffen in a conflict that raises troubling questions about our markets & our government. Racing against the clock in a chase that spans continents, one man's battle to expose the Machiavellian machinations of a vicious Wall Street marauder forces him into a financial jungle populated by unscrupulous sociopaths – rogue intelligence agencies, Russian mafia oligarchs, drug cartels & terrorist networks.

Present Day Wall Street. Where intelligence agencies and the financial industry are strange bedfellows, and the two worlds are often intertwined in disturbing ways. In this chillingly plausible scenario of a military/industrial/financial complex run amok, Zero Sum pits Dr. Steven Archer against powerful financier Nicholas Griffen in a conflict that raises troubling questions about our markets and our government. Racing against the clock in a chase that spans continents, one man's battle to expose the Machiavellian machinations of a ruthless Wall Street marauder forces him into a financial jungle populated by every variety of unscrupulous sociopath – rogue intelligence agencies, Russian mafia oligarchs, drug cartels, and terrorist networks. As a white-collar game of chess transitions into a lethal real world cage-fight, Steven finds himself in a deadly showdown, where hunters can quickly become the hunted and blood is the ultimate currency.