Lehman Trader-Author Prowls Detroit’s Klingon Air Space: Books

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For Scott Lasser, a novelist who once traded government bonds at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., death is more a beginning than an end.

In the prologue to “The Year That Follows,” a trader perishes in the World Trade Center inferno. In his new book, “Say Nice Things About Detroit,” seven cadavers pile up in the first seven pages.