Free Rider How a Bay Street Whiz Kid Stole and Spent $20 Million

He was Bay Street's newest whiz kid, an ambitious young man from British Columbia who arrived begging for a job, any job, at a stock brokerage. Within five years, Michael Holoday was a Managing Partner of First Marathon Securities, trading millions of dollars for clients who considered him a generous friend, and an investment genius.In reality, Holoday was the investment industry's most outrageous embezzler, who stole and spent over $20 million, leaving friends and family members emotionally and financially broken.Free Rider traces Holoday's fraud, and the investigation that led to his imprisonment. Included are details of the astonishing excesses of Holoday's escapades and their impact on investors, who discovered the man they had welcomed into their lives as a trusted advisor was a common thief in an Armani suit. Unlike any other tale of embezzlement and fraud you've read before, and paced like a mystery novel, Free Rider will shake every reader's faith in the trust, integrity and principles of the Canadian investment industry.Reynolds, John Lawrence is the author of 'Free Rider How a Bay Street Whiz Kid Stole and Spent $20 Million' with ISBN 9781552782354 and ISBN 1552782352.