Bertrand Jost

The author grew up in France and moved to the United States in 1991. He has been working in banking in New York and London for the past twenty years. Simultaneously, Bertrand Jost has been writing non-fiction books and articles for twenty years. He published five of the six volumes French series Vicissitudes Militaires, the story of a family through its generations of drafted soldiers from Napoleon to the Algerian War of Independence. The fifth installment focusing on World War II was translated into English and self-published on Amazon Createspace. The author also published many articles on the History of Alsace, France, from the Middle Ages to World War II. Finally, the author is a Son of the American Revolution and published an article in the Empire Patriot on his ancestor, who fought in the French Army during the American War of Independence.

Bubble Boys, his first novel loosely based on his experience as an investment banker in London during the tech bubble outburst of 2000, is the first installment of a trilogy that will continue with Hedging your Bets about the rise of Hedge funds in 2003-2004 and will end with the story on the 2008 market collapse, all based on the author’s experience.

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