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What would you do for $25 million?
If you were as bitter as James Moody, watching bankers pocket millions in taxpayer-funded bonuses after gutting the global economy, you'd be ready to do almost anything. Even a massive crime and cover-up. Especially if it meant living the good life in Paris. But if things unravelled, if the cover-up failed, what would you do to keep your millions?
If you were James Moody? Almost anything.
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RobSpence says
This is a fast-paced thriller, set in locales ranging from expensive Paris penthouses to Roma encampments in rural Slovakia. It has a very contemporary feel, since the backdrop is the recent financial scandals and the global economic downturn. At the centre of events is the unpleasant crooked former financier James Moody, now enjoying his ill-gotten millions in Paris. His plan to disappear by faking his own death begins to unravel, and triggers a quickly moving succession of scenes in which Moody becomes embroiled in a maelstrom of lies, deceits and double-bluffs. What distinguishes this from your standard thriller is that the novel engages with the moral bankruptcy of modern capitalism, embodied in the figure of Moody. There are no clean-cut heroes on the street of liars - everyone, to a greater or lesser extent, is on the make. It's gripping, vivid and thought-provoking.
posted at 09:47am Jun 05 PST