If you liked Ben Elton’s Meltdown…
…and are looking forward to further forays into the world of financial shenanigans, try invest your time reading these books:
Sebastian Faulks: A Week in December
Set in the capital at the end of 2007, A Week in December is an angry and sweeping examination of our society featuring the morally-repugnant hedge fund investor John Veals who conspires to cause a major bank to fail for his own personal gain. A book for our times if ever there was one.
Louise Patten: Bad Money
And on the subject of those prickly funds, penned by a city high-flier and wife of former Conservative cabinet minister, this gripping first novel features management consultant Mary Kersey. She finds that life becomes rather tricky when the Treasury drafts her in to investigate some highly suspect hedge-funds…
Ben Elton's Meltdown