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    Jeff
      Ingber

    Jeff is a financial industry consultant with extensive senior management experience in both government service and in the private sector, and expertise in compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, including anti-money-laundering.

    Aside from his work in the financial industry, Jeff is the author of multiple books, short stories, and screenplays, for which he has won numerous awards. One of his screenplays was the basis for the 2019 film “Crypto”, starring Kurt Russell. A novel, Shattered Lives, was made into a documentary film of the same name, which was released in 2024.

    Collateral Dreams

    As the Financial Crisis approaches, Everett Webb appears to have it all—power, wealth, a soaring career as a CDO salesman, and a marriage to Hannah that feels unshakable. As he’s pulled deeper into the lucrative world of subprime securities, he tells himself the rewards are immense, the downside is contained, and whatever lines he’s crossing don’t really matter. Across the city, others—his best friend Joel, colleagues, and rivals—all are making the same bet. Gina Blake navigates deals for hedge fund titan Quentin Crawford, who chases ever-greater returns, convinced he can outthink a market built on illusion. And then there’s Everett’s beautiful intern, Amber Cosgrove—poised, perceptive, and far more in control than she seems. As the money pours in, the cracks begin to show. The deals grow more opaque, the risks become harder to ignore, and the line between manipulation and consent begins to blur. Those closest to Everett start to question the man he’s becoming. When the market finally collapses, careers, loyalties, and carefully constructed lives will be called in as collateral. Collateral Dreams is a gripping novel of ambition, seduction, and self-deception, set against the frenzy of a financial system on the brink of catastrophe.

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    “A thoughtful corporate drama that explores the uneasy space between ambition, accountability, and self-deception.” – Kirkus Reviews

    “Set during the Great Recession, Jeff Ingber’s historical novel is gripping and humane.” – Foreword Reviews

    “The story is a page turner with impending dark days always looming in the not-to-distant future.” – Blue Ink Review

    The Woman by the Lake: Stories of Life

    This captivating collection of short stories delves into the core of the human experience, exploring themes such as longing, regret, faith, the struggle for connection, the intricacies of relationships, and the inherent uncertainties of life. Spanning generations, geographies, and perspectives, each tale is deeply personal, poignant, and undeniably human. In the title story, a canoer blown ashore encounters a mysterious woman, igniting an intense romantic vision and sparking reflections on his life. In another story, on the eve of a man’s wedding, a secret is revealed that threatens to change everything. Yet another tale finds the author as a young man on an enchanted mesa with the woman of his dreams. This collection—written in an intimate, candid, and compelling style with humor a constant presence—resonates with a quiet power, portraying moments of individual struggle and pain, but also of wondrous hope and joy.

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    Daria’s Secrets

    A half century after the Holocaust, Daria Abramson, suffering nightmares of the Lodz ghetto and her time with its infamous ruler, Chaim Rumkowski, turns for help to a sensitive but dogged therapist. During their intense sessions, she lays bare buried memories and faces deep feelings of guilt about the war and the death of her husband. Secrets long held by Daria spill out in fierce succession, revelations disclosed to those she loves most – her daughter, granddaughter, and Ruth, a lifelong friend and fellow survivor. In turn, those three expose their own shocking surprises. In Daria’s Secrets, we travel together with a courageous woman as she attempts to overcome the anguish of the heart’s remembrance, in order to finally live.

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    While the Holocaust is the backdrop for her trauma, Daria's everyday regrets about the totality of her life's choices provide a universal and contemporary theme sure to intrigue readers.

    – BLUE INK REVIEW
    FINALIST, NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS (GENERAL FICTION NOVEL)

    When the Forgotten Borough Reigned: The 1964 Little League World Series Champions

    “When the Forgotten Borough Reigned: The 1964 Little League World Series Champions” chronicles the amazing team from Staten Island that won the 1964 Little League World Series. Held on the 25th anniversary of the founding of Little League baseball, that World Series was unique and memorable. The final game was won on a no-hitter spun by a pitcher on an All-Star team from the middle of Staten Island, the “forgotten borough” that appeared to have more in common with the American heartland than the rest of New York City. Not only had a Big Apple team never before even qualified for the World Series, but it was the first time a U.S. team defeated an international one for the championship. The members of the victorious Mid-Island Little League team were treated to a ticker tape parade in lower Manhattan and a reception by the mayor as well as meetings with celebrities and baseball icons, experiencing a degree of fame few adults ever do while uniting the borough and city in frenzied celebration.

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    GOLD MEDAL WINNER – ELIT – YOUNG ADULT NON-FICTION

    Rendered Safe: Tales of an NYPD Bomb Tech

    “Rendered Safe” centers on the remarkable life of former NYPD Bomb Squad Detective Donald Sadowy. In the aftermath of the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the most devastating terrorist attack on the United States to that point, Sadowy risked his life to search for evidence in the shattered and dangerous sub-basement. There, he discovered a piece of chassis frame that contained a VIN number which enabled law enforcement to catch the perpetrators just in time. The massive investigation and recovery effort that followed is revealed through Sadowy’s recollections as well as those of a number of other law enforcement agents, many never before told.

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    GOLD MEDAL WINNER, ELIT AWARDS, BIOGRAPHY
    FINALIST, NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS (AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY)
    RUNNER-UP, NEW YORK BOOK FESTIVAL (BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR)
    HONORABLE MENTION, HOLLYWOOD BOOK FESTIVAL (BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR)
    QUARTERFINALIST, SCREENCRAFT CINEMATIC BOOK COMEPTITION

    Shattered Lives: Overcoming the Fraunces Tavern Terror

    On January 24, 1975, six young businessmen were enjoying lunch in Manhattan’s historic Fraunces Tavern when a bomb exploded. It was planted by a Puerto Rican independence group known as the “FALN,” the most active domestic terrorist organization in American history. “Shattered Lives”, co-authored with Joe Connor, the son of one of those murdered, chronicles the FALN’s decade-long reign of murder and destruction, the hunt for the perpetrators by a group of dedicated FBI agents, and the political maneuvering that led to Presidents Clinton and Obama granting clemency to FALN members.

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    GOLD MEDAL WINNER, ELIT AWARDS, HISTORY

    MADE INTO A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY MACTAVISH PRODUCTIONS!

    Béla’s Letters

    An historical fiction based on the lives of Jeff’s father, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor, and his family members.  The book tells the story of a large family torn apart by the war and Holocaust, and the extraordinary circumstances that the survivors endure before they manage to reunite.

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    MEDALIST WINNER, NEW APPLE EBOOK AWARDS, BIOGRAPHY (MEMOIR CATEGORY)
    HONORABLE MENTION, NEW YORK BOOK FESTIVAL (MEMOIR CATEGORY)
    HONORABLE MENTION, READERS FAVORITE BOOK AWARDS (HISTORICAL FICTION CATEGORY)
    HONORABLE MENTION, NORTH STREET BOOK PRIZE
    BRONZE MEDAL WINNER, HISTORICAL FICTION, ELIT AWARDS
    AVAILABLE IN THE U.S. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM BOOKSTORE

    Resurrecting the Street: Overcoming the Greatest Operational Crisis in History

    This book tells of the regeneration of the U.S. markets, day by day, immediately following 9/11, with a focus on the U.S. Government securities market.  The events of 9/11 brought the most important financial market in the world – the one looked to by investors globally for safety in times of trouble – to the brink of paralysis. The crisis was ultimately resolved through the willpower and wisdom of groups of disparate individuals, accompanied by an unprecedented climate of cooperation among fierce competitors that embodied the American spirit at its finest.

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    ...Should be required reading for any one learning about the financial sector. ... Resurrecting The Street is an excellent historical account on the events of that auspicious day.

    – TBR, TOPBOOKREVIEWERS.COM

    FINALIST, NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS (HISTORICAL NONFICTION)