Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

Dooling's short story "Bush Pigs" was read as part of Selected Shorts a program produced by Symphony Space in New York and aired on NPR. Works
Novels
Critical Care (1992)
White Man's Grave (1994)
Brain Storm (1998)
Bet Your Life (2002)
The Journals of Eleanor Druse (writing as Eleanor Druse) (2004)

Nonfiction
Blue Streak: Swearing Free Speech and Sexual Harassment (1996)
Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ (2008)

As contributor or editor
Rendezvous in Black by Cornell Woolrich. In Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ (2008) he explores the implications of machine intelligence overtaking human intelligence.

Dooling was born in Omaha Nebraska and is a graduate of Saint Louis University (1976) and Saint Louis University School of Law (1987). Dooling's short story "Bush Pigs" was read as part of Selected Shorts a program produced by Symphony Space in New York and aired on NPR. Dooling's first novel Critical Care (1992) was made into a 1997 movie of the same title directed by Sidney Lumet and starring James Spader and Kyra Sedgwick.