Shadow Banking (ePub)

Set over fifteen years in the heart of global finance, Shadow Banking follows the lives of City hopefuls, as they try to wheel, deal and back stab their way to billions. Remember: life's a trade...It is 1994. The City is on the crest of a wave.When Al Denham turns up to his first day at City banking giant Trenchart Colville, he thinks he's there to start a job. But in fact he's at the beginning of a journey that will change his life for ever.Al is joined by a ragtag combination of the brash and the charming, the box-tickers and the risk-takers. There's razor-sharp New Yorker, Miles Ratner, an enigma despite his infectious charm. Fergal Quinn, fresh from his father's Dublin fishmonger's, full of tales of booze and hangovers, with a punchline for every story. And Imogen Green - beautiful, well-connected, and with a playful side that can prove quite the distraction. As they race to get ahead, their lives will entwine in ways none of them could have predicted.Spanning turbulent financial markets, a technological revolution, and the financial crisis that brought the West to its knees, this is a novel about friendship, love, rivalry, betrayal and murder. This Life meets The Wolf of Wall St, Shadow Banking will make you question everything you think you know about trading floors and the people who inhabit them. In the end it all comes down to one thing: money. And whoever has the most when they die, wins