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| Author | John D. Kuhns |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | literary fiction |
| Publisher | Post Hill Press |
Publication date | July 17, 2018 |
| Media type | hardback |
| Pages | 245 |
South of the Clouds is a 2018 novel by John D. Kuhns
The Great Recession of 2008 humbled many good men. Once featured on the front pages of New York's business and society papers, Jack Davis had spiraled downward in the aftermath of the crisis.
How far will someone go to get their reputation back? Jack is about to find out. Exiled to the last remnant of his investment empire—a rusty silicon smelter in the Chinese jungle north of the Burmese border—his comeback seems farfetched. But it's either take his best shot or crawl away from the world in shame.
His prospects appear grim when Jack discovers his employees are using the company's trucks to run jade from Burma over the border to China. His first instinct is to clean house—until he learns they're making more money running jade than he is smelting silicon.
Set in a dangerous, once-obscure corner of the world that has recently vaulted to prominence, South of the Clouds tells the story of an American forced to choose, not between right and wrong --"there's no legal here"—but between the predictable and the unknown, between a stale life or one with Mei.
Wall Street isn't only about greed and cynicism. There are heroes there too.
"An engaging novel with a protagonist who remains appealing, even as he tiptoes into shady territory,"—Kirkus Review.
South of The Clouds was published in the United States by Post Hill Press for release on July 17, 2018.
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John D. Kuhns is an author, artist, businessman, private equity investor and investment banker. His published fiction takes place in both domestic and foreign settings, while much of his business career has been in the alternative energy industry. He has founded and taken five companies public. In addition to the United States, Kuhns also has established companies and developed projects in Argentina, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, England, Honduras, India, Ireland, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka and Wales. Kuhns has been interviewed for CNBC, Reuters Insider, Fox Business, Forbes, Bloomberg Law, and as the cover story Journey to the East by The Edge, on the business and economic climate in China and Southeast Asia. Most recently, he was interviewed by Bloomberg regarding his business in Bougainville.
China Fortunes is a 2011 novel by John D. Kuhns. The book is loosely based on his career and experiences in the United States and China. The protagonist followed throughout the book, Jack Davis, is an American financier who begins traveling to China in the 1980s. As Jack conducts business and chases wealth, he encounters the opportunities, as well as the obstacles, available to the few foreigners willing to brave the uncertainties of the PRC at the time. Tracing the beginnings of China’s industrial age and nascent capitalism, the book also takes the reader through Wall Street’s trading floors, IPOs, and multi-national hydroelectric deals.
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