'It's 2007, a little over a year before the biggest economic meltdown of the modern era. But in the City of London, investment bankers are still paying themselves record bonuses, the real estate and art markets are booming and the champagne is still flowing. City stock broker Charles Fullerton has just bagged the biggest order of his career. So why, on the very same day, is his boss telling him to leave? Cut adrift by his social climbing friends, Charles’s life begins to unravel. But when he’s befriended by Henri Blizard, bad-boy bon vivant living in self-imposed exile from his famous French banking dynasty, things get even more complicated. Keen to find a get-rich-quick scheme to scandalise his family, Henri sets up a broking operation employing high class prostitutes to elicit orders directly from clients. With few other options, Charles hops aboard for the ride. There’s a dominatrix with a bad case of tennis elbow, an ex-nanny turning tricks to fund her skiing obsession and a troubled working girl with a freakish genius for share trading. But Charles is soon to discover they’re not the only ones bending the rules. And no matter how hard he might have tried to escape the past, it always has a way of catching up' (Publication summary)
