Todd Buchholz, former managing director of the Tiger hedge fund and adviser to the flagship fund of George Soros, today announced his fiction debut, The Castro Gene, a financial thriller.

The Castro Gene, according to the press release, sweeps readers into the secretive and free-wheeling world of hedge funds, along with the explosive politics of fidel castro's Havana and Washington, D.C.

The Castro Gene also unmasks the hidden secrets of Vegas's Rat Pack days and reveals the most astonishing theory of the Kennedy assassination to burst forth in 40 years. This jet-propelled thriller features a young boxer-turned-Wall Street hotshot who learns how money moguls can manipulate the stock market.

Todd Buchholz is a former White House director of economic policy, award-winning teacher at Harvard, and managing director of the $15 billion Tiger hedge fund. He has written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Reader's Digest.

The Castro Gene will be available May 15, 2007. Oceanview Publishing.