NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- In the financial world there exists a concept known as the risk-rewards profile. This complex measurement compares the inherent dangers of an investment with its potential pay-off. The applications of the risk-rewards profile to real life situations are limitless and instinctive. Author Stanley Cohen addresses one man's attempt to balance his desires with his current existence in "The Risk Taker" (now available from 1stBooks Library).
The protagonist is an aging car salesman, whose gut-wrenching despair and unstable finances bring him face to face with his past. It soon become apparent that this man, whose passion for 'action' and ability to eat life, has suffered a major setback -- freezing him inside the world of an unscrupulous automobile dealership.
How did this once successful independent businessman and highly respected member of the mercenary community fall so low? Through a series of exciting and entertaining flashbacks, the reader learns of the events that lead to the "hero's" fall from grace, which revolve around an unpredictable union between two families -- Jewish American from New York and Catholic Latin-American from El Salvador.
Set against the danger of the Vietnam War and the high stakes action found in the casinos of Macao and Las Vegas, "The Risk Taker" is a powerful, poignant, and thought-provoking novel. In the words of the author, risk-taking is not a route for everyone, "it is only reserved for those who dare to play."
Author Stanley Cohen is no stranger to the exotic locations about which he writes. During his years in the Armed Forces and as a business consultant, he traveled extensively throughout Asia, Central and South America and other Third World countries. Cohen resides in Puerto Rico, where he is working on his second novel, as well as a screenplay based on "The Risk Taker."
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