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240 pages, Hardback
216x138mm, Portrait

Published July 2012



ISBN-10: 1906768927
ISBN-13: 9781906768928
 
Client Service
 
World of Finance, a massive investment company, is teetering on the point of implosion. Controlled by the elusive, brooding Baroque, its Ponzi structure is irrevocably unravelling. But not before it can suck in the naive and amoral - and destroy them. In this mordant satire of international investment, Shelby Tucker introduces a darkly hilarious cast of characters: among them 'Bone' Saxon, an American football player with a broken leg, sent to sell Plans on the Indian subcontinent; the disillusioned Bumper Peabody, Area Manager, tortured and detained by SAVAK in an Iranian prison; the cynical Noam Van Zilver, selling the company's schemes across the African continent; and observing it all with detachment, Belvedere Beauchamp, Oxford graduate, restless, indifferent, inveterate traveller and the only one who manages to avoid Baroque's trap.

Set in the sixties, and drawing on Tucker's own experience, Client Service could not be a more relevant or entertaining lens through which to view the current financial crisis.
Shelby Tucker - Shelby Tucker read law at Oxford, and is an unparalleled adventurer. He is also the author of Among Insurgents: Walking Through Burma, Colin Thubron's Book of the Year. His novel 'Client Service' is also published (July 2012) by Stacey.

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The Last Banana By Shelby Tucker
The Last Banana (paperback) By Shelby Tucker