Last night I killed my boss. It was the second time this week... From the very first, this tale of one man's quest for his annual bonus--in a world where ambition, terror, insecurity and desperate deeds are as natural as organic bread--will grip the reader's imagination.
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David Charters Worked Five Years In The Foreign Office, And Then, As Managing Director Of Deutsche Bank's Equity Capital Markets Team, Oversaw The Flotation Of Amazon.com And France Telecom. He Is The Co-Founder Of The Beacon Fellowship Charitable Trust. He Is Married, Has Six Children And Lives In London. His First Book Of Short Stories, No Tears, Has Been A Bestseller In The City Since It Was First Published In February 2002. St Martin's Press Will Publish It This Autumn In New York As The Insiders. His Latest Collection, I Love You... And Other Lies, Was Published This Spring. Alice Rosenbaum, Of Dazed & Confused, Has Been Taking A Sequence Of Photographs Of The City, Its People And Its Setting, To Add A Pictorial Dimension To David Charters' Rivetting Fable.
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This review is from: At Bonus Time, No One Can Hear You Scream (Paperback)
This is a short novel, written sort of in the style of a diary. It starts out at "B minus 58" - 58 days until bonus communication. It is about the paranoid unhinging of a London investment banker as he counts down the days until he learns his bonus numbers. If you're in the capital markets business you know what I'm talking about. The brinksman ship, the debt, all the different ways he has the bonus spent before he has it - or even knows how much it'll be. It is not a flattering depiction of the financial services industry - showing the characters to be greedy, superficial and facile. But it is absolutely hilarious. Full of mirth and dark humor, the story follows the character's inexorable unraveling. I definitely recommend this one, although admittedly it is probably best appreciated by people working in or related to the capital markets.
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