A great story well written.
Gill Peck is the BBC Financial corespondent that everybody sees on the news talking about stock markets, banking trends, and interest rates.
What he isn’t is a criminalist, or crime reporter.
When he is given a tip off that one of Britain’s leading banks is about to go broke, he breaks the news, and gets the blame for braking the bank.
A long time friend, and lover, working for the Bank of England commits suicide when the news breaks.
What Peck hadn’t accounted for was the things happening in the background.
Why was this bank targeted, and by who, because it soon becomes obvious that this is not the only one in trouble. This just happened to be the one somebody wanted to drastically devalue.
Peck is soon embroiled in an investigation into what happened to the bank, and more importantly to him, why his lover died.
This is a book that I’ll admit I nearly put down on several occasions.
It can be a bit rambling in places, and I got the impression the author was just using it as a vehicle to let the reader know about some of the privileged places he’d visited in the course of his work.
But the more I read the more engrossed I got in the story.
Peck himself is not the most engaging, or likeable character, but neither is he gross, or boring.
It’s the story that hooked me. There are things in this book I knew nothing about, or had a very basic knowledge of. The usual trip to Google led me down the usual rabbit holes, and like with all good books I learned things.
The more I learned the more feasible the story became.
The more feasible it became the more thrilling it got.
In fact, by the time I did finish it, I’d place it amongst the best modern, political thrillers I’ve read.
Publisher: Zaffre. Pages: 395. Audiobook length: 12 hours 19 minutes. Narrator: Matt Addis
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