“Noir has been called an indigenous American art form, and Cortright McMeel uses its cold, black style to give his entertaining debut novel, Short, a swift, kicky drive… As a work in the Tom Wolfe-David Mamet school of finance, this is entertaining and feels just right. With his dark, wry portraits of the men behind the market, McMeel seems to be diagnosing all that’s gone wrong with 21st-century Wall Street: its complex derivatives, its unseemly bonuses, its billionaire hedge-fund managers… Short is lithe and funny.” -- Jess Walter, The Washington Post
“The result is fueled by resonant high-octane prose that glues the reader to the pages; the temptation is to immediately go back and reread this singularly rich and satisfying work.” -- Denver Post
