Swiss Derivatives Review, Published by Adams Associates
In their new book, father and son authors have successfully demystified the subject (derivatives) in their informative and entertaining overview

Leon Jones, The Actuary Magazine, December 2001
I found this book well worth a read. What it attempts, and achieves, is an unintimidating introduction to derivatives.

Book Description
Equips the lay reader with a clear and thorough explanation of financial derivatives and how they work.

Highy readable introduction to the entire realm of derivatives which is both instructive and entertaining.

Utilises a range of real life examples drawn from everyday life to provide a broad outlook on the subject matter which is global in perspective.

Presents a lucid conceptual background to derivatives by avoiding unnecessary technical details.

About the Author
Phelim Boyle grew up in Northern Ireland and was educated at Dreenan School and Queen's University in Belfast. He obtained a PhD in physics from Trinity College, Dublin and subsequently qualified as an actuary. He became enchanted with options in the early 1970s and since then, has published many papers on derivatives. Phelim was the first person to use the Monte Carlo method to value options. Currently he is Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Finance at the University of Waterloo, Canada where he holds the J. Page Wadsworth Chair in Finance.

Feidhlim Boyle was born in Dublin and grew up in Vancouver, Edinburgh and Waterloo in Ontario. He received his undergraduate education in political science at Queen's University in Kingston and then a MPhil from Trinity College, Dublin. While attending the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, where he received his MBA, he served as a portfolio manager of the Cayuga Fund LLC. Feidhlim has several years of experience in a variety of roles within the equity divisions of ScotiaMcLeod Inc and Goldman, Sachs & Co. He lives in New York.