in Healdsburg, California on April 23, 2007. Selected works The Billion Dollar Sure Thing (1973) The Silver Bears (1974) The Crash Of '79 (1976) The Last Days Of America (1981) The Panic Of '89 (1986) The Palace (1987) What's Next? (1988) The Swiss Account (1992) Zero Coupon (1993) The Set-up (1997) References 1932 births 2007 deaths American business writers American economics writers American mystery writers 20th-century American novelists Edgar Award winners Walsh School of Foreign Service alumni University of Basel alumni American businesspeople convicted of crimes American male novelists People from Stratford, Ontario People from Healdsburg, California 20th-century American male writers Novelists from California 20th-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers