Chris Suscha

Chris Suscha is a former investment banker who learned the brutal mechanics of corporate death the hard way – in windowless bullpens at Deloitte & Touche and later at Houlihan Lokey, surviving on cold coffee and printer toner while restructuring failing giants.

He sat across from CEOs watching billion-dollar empires suffocate under unsustainable debt, negotiated with ruthless creditors, drafted debtor-in-possession facilities at 3 a.m., and ran the cash-flow waterfalls in real time for cases like Dade Behring. He studied the autopsies of Enron, Kmart, WorldCom, Lehman Brothers, and more – each one hammering home the same unforgiving truth: a balance sheet that can't be serviced will eventually own you.

That hard-earned perspective inspired his debut novella, Good Country Bad Balance Sheet – a fast-paced financial thriller that imagines the United States as the ultimate over-levered credit: a great country with a reckless capital structure, staring down a restructuring moment no one in Washington has the courage to call.

A lifelong fan of high-stakes dramas like The Firm, House of Cards, The Big Short, Billions, and Succession, Chris accelerated the clock, stripped away the cowardice, and let five flawed, exhausted insiders do in one hundred days what Congress can't do in a century. It's not a policy blueprint – it's a novel, a harbinger, and a warning shot wrapped in adrenaline.

Guided by a simple mission – to share an open heart and foster joy and connection – Chris writes stories that feel honest, human, and urgent. When he's not writing about balance sheets that bite back, he enjoys deep conversations, reflecting on life's contradictions, and connecting with readers who sense how close we might already be to the edge.