Who Is Mike Cooper's Silas Cade?

Mike Cooper is the pseudonym of Mike Wiecek an award-winning author best known for writing popular international thrillers. As Wiecek, he has won several awards the most prestigious of which was the nomination for the Shamus Award for his short stories and a nomination for the ITW’s nomination for Exit Strategy. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Cooper never wanted to be a writer from a very young age. In his younger years, he wanted to be an astronaut, a scientist, and a police officer. He was born in Boston but his family moved around a lot from Boston to New Hampshire, to Wisconsin before finally settling in Missouri.

Most made for book parts of Mike Cooper’s biography happened long before he became a writer. He grew up in Missouri and

Cade is an Iraqi War veteran and former black ops operative who takes private contracts from the biggest investors and fund managers of New York City who need his special skills in doing jobs that require utmost precision and secrecy. Silas Cade first appears in some of Cooper’s very first short stories as a hit man accountant. The 2008 crisis on Wall Street and the world financial markets meltdown is what left to the development of the character as he is in the Silas Cade series of novels. His agent loved the idea of the hit man who takes out the crooked Wall Street elites rather than bail them out and soon the first novel in the series Clawback was born. Going beyond the usual hit man for pay, the novel exposes the dark underbelly of the financial institutions such as the investment banks, the brokers, and major investors who control the markets using underhanded dealings. The novels provide a deeper look into gilded corruption, vast criminal enterprise, rotten villains, and venal deeds of Wall Street. The novels have a playful treatment of the themes interspersed with dark humor and cynicism that is inherent in the bankster

Silas is enlisted to go demand clawback from a top hedge fund manager whose deal had gone bad. Using his special skills, Cade manages to get the manager to pay up the ten million owed over deals gone bad. But before he can inform his client of his success the manager is found dead. He digs into the case and soon learns that the man is not the first to die under mysterious circumstances. It is soon evident that many managers of funds that have had huge losses in the recent are being killed off. Silas with his insider perspectives and anonymous identity is the perfect investigator into the mystery of who is killing off some of the most hated moneymen of Wall Street. Teaming up with a beautiful financial blogger, the go on the trail of a violent security crew he believes played a critical role in the suspected executions. With panic and paranoia spreading, he begins to wonder if maybe the threat may be from someone on the