An exciting, unpredictable story of financial intrigue, intensely atmospheric and absorbing, with humour and romance. Clive Pitt is the talented banker cherry-picked for a career in the City of London. While handling a merger, started by a significant hedge fund, he notices massive fraud is involved. Despite holding a trusted, lucrative position in the firm, Clive decides to turn whistleblower and risk everything. Soon Pitt understands that powerful figures have conspired to disgrace and ruin him, in both his professional and his personal life.
Finding himself a pariah, with his memory wiped, family and friendships destroyed, Clive has to piece together the events that lead to this terrible downfall. Only one colleague is prepared to help him, a clever, courageous female trader, with whom he originally conspired to expose the deal. His conflict against brutal wealth and power becomes a matter of survival for both sides. He has to save his reputation, fill in the lost events of a ‘missing’ year; even while ruthless vested interests seek to conclude their deal and to destroy him.
Rowland depicts a fast-paced London, where people are always on the move; a simple lunchtime stroll is fraught with danger and nobody is ever what they seem. The place has a sense of immediacy about it, which instigates a real feeling of danger to the world that is living in. London’s polemic nature, full of highs and lows, swirls together perfectly with added fantastical elements to create the storm of confusion that is Clive’s adventure.
This is an incredible debut novel from a fresh new author who knowingly toys with tropes and twists well-known mechanisms which allows his voice to stand apart from the genres that restrict him. With an intricate knowledge of city dealings and big business with high stakes, together with his shrewd understanding of story-telling combined with a willingness to break rules results in a tale of unpredictable originality.
An involving and tense read; distinctly imaginative, surreal and thoroughly enjoyable.
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| Title | The City Dealer |
| Author | Neil Rowland |
| first published | April 23rd 2013 |
| Publisher | Auk Authors |
| ISBN | 007178232X |
| Language | English |
