Thousand Dollar Bottles, Supermodels…

Money. Models. Booze.

No, we’re no talking about your weekend in The Hamptons.

We’re talking about Doug Stumpf’s (Vanity Fair’s deputy editor) Confession$ of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy, a white-collar crime novel set in the fabulous life of Wall Street ballers.

The tale of greed and shoe polish is seen through the eyes of Gil Benicio, a Brazilian shoeshine boy employed at a top trading firm. Despite being English-challenged, Gil befriends workers at all levels, drawing out stories of their money-infused and morally-deficient adventures, while offering tales of his more modest but equally driven life.

After his janitor friend is pink-slipped for witnessing what might be insider-trading, Gil joins with a magazine writer (Glossy magazine) to uncover the truth behind the firing. The writer, desperately needing a hot story to prevent demotion to Modern Bride magazine, agrees to dig deeper and discovers…

Now you didn’t think we’d spoil the ending, did you?


Confession$ of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy, by Doug Stumpf is available online at Amazon.com or at your local bookstore.