Dave Hart
1 primary work • 5 total works
Book 256
In the midst of an opium-and-sex-fuelled haze in the heart of Cambodia, having made billions of dollars from Grossbank's collapse before faking his own death, he is desperate to return to London and get The Girl. And in this case, it's not just any girl - it's Laura 'Two Livers' Mackay, the most intelligent, independent, powerful woman around ...with the kind of figure that would make a dead man restless.; But how exactly do you rise from the dead? How do you go about resurrecting the financial world following a devastating economic crash? And why are some of the shadiest figures in organised crime so keen to give you upwards of a hundred billion dollars?; The Ego's Nest is a witty, gripping, fast-paced tale of one man trying to stay true to his beliefs no matter how jaded and immoral they may be, in a world where ethical business is obviously bad business.
Dave Hart is an investment banker. He runs Grossbank, the world's greatest bank. He does everything a good banker should do - from little white lines to little blue pills - and gets paid millions for it. So why has everything gone so flat? After cheating death in a horrific plane crash, Dave finds himself the media's latest hero. But not being able to put a foot wrong is finally starting to grate. He's bored - until a rogue trader is discovered at the bank, and the company faces losses that could rock the entire banking industry. Dave is confronted by his biggest challenge yet - he must take on the stockmarket in the middle of financial meltdown and win. But time seems to have run out for our anti-hero. Or has it?
This is the third installment to "At Bonus Time, No-one Can Hear You Scream" and "Trust Me, I'm a Banker" by the bestselling author of "No Tears" and "I Love You"...and "Other Lies".I look around the eager, smiling faces of my heads of department. Bastards. I know they'll have been scheming. I'll leave it a couple of days to make them feel safe, then have a couple taken out and shot to encourage the others...As I emerge onto the floor there's pandemonium, as all business stops and the traders cheer and whoop and high five each other. Isn't it wonderful? My people love me. The fact is, they couldn't have cared less about me, and why should they? Imagine the extra headroom in the bonus pool if I wasn't around to take the first slice.Recovering in a posh clinic after his explosive ending in "Trust Me, I'm a Banker", Hart is re-united with his old investment banking team from Grossbank (yes!
'Two Livers' is still around) to continue his epic quest: Avoid a boring life, make as much money as possible, frustrate an ex-wife's avaricious intent, punish all his enemies, consume as many drugs and frolic with as many girls as he can possibly manage, whilst pursuing investment banking financial world domination to facilitate his insatiable appetites.Even his old merchant bank, Barton's, where it all began, will feel Hart's revenge and when he decides to do good for the poor of Africa (and Grossbank), readers can be reassured the tale's final pages are as riveting as ever, and will leave them anxious for the final part of this remarkable quartet.
'Two Livers' is still around) to continue his epic quest: Avoid a boring life, make as much money as possible, frustrate an ex-wife's avaricious intent, punish all his enemies, consume as many drugs and frolic with as many girls as he can possibly manage, whilst pursuing investment banking financial world domination to facilitate his insatiable appetites.Even his old merchant bank, Barton's, where it all began, will feel Hart's revenge and when he decides to do good for the poor of Africa (and Grossbank), readers can be reassured the tale's final pages are as riveting as ever, and will leave them anxious for the final part of this remarkable quartet.
His wife has left him. He's tried to kill his boss. He's probably going to lose his job. His annual bonus was embarrassingly small. Could life get any worse for Dave Hart, anti-hero of the investment banking world? Following an unlikely turn of events on a Jamaican beach, Dave finds himself catapulted from zero to hero through the magic of the tabloid press. He's soon strutting into ailing German bank Grossbank, determined to shake up its fusty 'old school' banking and start taking some proper risks. And some drugs. And of course plenty of entertainment at the Pussy Cat Club. After all, we all need to wind down and investment bankers are more wound up than most. Trust Me, I'm a Banker is a brutal, sometimes cynical, but always hilarious take on the world of high finance which will delight fans and new readers alike.
No other time of year is quite the same. In the first of his cult Dave Hart series, David Charters lays bare all aspects of this brutal annual ritual, from the insider dealing to the backstabbing to the dubious financial advice.; At Bonus Time...is the tale of one man's quest for his annual bonus in a world where ambition, insecurity and moral ambiguity are second nature, and will grip readers from the very first sentence right up to the final shattering denouement. After all, if fear and greed can expose the fault lines in human nature, whose fault is it really if people sometimes go over the edge?