Michael Sears Pens Fourth Installment in Award-Winning Jason Stafford Series; On Sale Today

Jason Stafford used to be a hot Wall Street trader, but he went too far and paid for it in prison. Now, as a financial investigator, he is asked to look into rumors about a hostile takeover at his firm, which only leads him to more trouble. Stafford soon becomes entangled in a grand jury investigation of Mob-related activities on Wall Street, and when some very powerful men begin making threats, he and his young autistic son, "The Kid", are thrust into the witness protection program. But then his son disappears. Has he been kidnapped, or worse? Stafford has no choice but to reveal himself to his enemies and risk everything he has in order to save his son, his firm, and his pregnant girlfriend.

ABOUT LONG WAY DOWN: Working as an under-the-radar troubleshooter for a private investment bank with parallels to the Madoff firm, in LONG WAY DOWN, Stafford is assigned the job of getting to the bottom of insider trading allegations against one of the firm's high profile clients: bio-engineer wunderkind Philip Haley, who has been accused of selling short his own stock in the wake of a set-back in research. Haley insists that he is innocent, and Stafford, with his peerless nose for the truth, believes the brilliant, if prickly scientist's insistence that he has been set up. Discovering who has set him up, and why, will place Stafford and those he loves in dire jeopardy.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Michael Sears spent more than twenty years on Wall Street, rising to become the Managing Director in the bond trading and underwriting divisions of Paine Webber and, later, Jeffries & Co., before heeding his father's advice: "When it stops being fun, get out." He did so in 2005, and returned to what had always given him the greatest joy- writing. Studying at NYU and the New School, Sears then published his first novel at 62. He lives in Sea Cliff, New York.