Rudiger Stories is a collection of five stories–Rudiger Comes Alive, Rudiger in the Islands, Rudiger in Peril, Rudiger on the Streets and Rudiger–that tell the saga of John Rudiger, from hotshot hedge fund manager on Wall Street to fugitive financier living under an alias on the lam in Antigua. A total of 95,000 words, equivalent to a full-length novel.
In Rudiger Comes Alive, a $1 billion hedge fund manager scrambles in a collapsing market to recover from his CFO cooking the books before the Feds can throw him in jail. A 13,000 word short story.
In Rudiger in the Islands, Rudiger has adopted Antigua as his home and then is forced to outwit the U.S. Feds and the double-dealing local police to try to stay out of jail by establishing his credentials as an Antiguan citizen. A 20,000 word short story.
In Rudiger in Peril, Rudiger learns his former partner and CFO has been murdered by one of his former hedge fund investors who lost millions and, intent on revenge, has sent a hired killer after Rudiger next. A 28,000 word novella.
In Rudiger on the Streets, Rudiger has finally settled into an idyllic life in Antigua. But when his housekeeper is scammed out of her life savings, he plunges into an underworld of frauds and murderers to outwit the two conmen who swindled her. A 24,000 word novella.
In Rudiger, the Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York sends a young woman lawyer from his office to finally get the goods on Rudiger to extradite him to the U.S. to stand trial. Rudiger recruits her to help him retrieve $50 million in stolen bearer bonds from a New York safe deposit box. A 10,000 word short story.
Each story is also available individually for $0.99