Larry Shields

Larry started his Wall Street career in 1980, spending the first twenty years developing, marketing, and promoting investment products for corporate and wealthy investors. Writing was just one tool of communicating and promoting, combining it with video and personal presentations to help “tell a story”.

Larry's first book, "Double Dealing", takes place in 2009, in the aftermath of the great financial collapse of 2008. In the book, we live through the destruction of a junior venture capitalists (Scott Sherman) career, and the desperate measures he has to take to resurrect his future, as well as save the lives of himself, his wife and his children.

In Larry's second book, "The Five Lions of the Volta", Scott Sherman is financing the development of a drug in West Africa for the treatment of Alzheimer's, with which his mother is stricken. Half the story takes place in Ghana, where Scott and his junior partner Lisa Sharpe, find themselves fighting for their lives as well as the success of the new cure.

Larry continues his Wall Street career managing his client’s portfolios in a large full service brokerage firm. He writes evenings and week-ends, balancing his work and family life. Many of the scenes he writes are drawn upon experiences from his work, friends, college, travelling, and hobbies.