Allen Jarvis | Novels
RomperSuit
The first rule of Investment Banking is ... you do not talk about Investment Banking.
How do you continue to put in the hours, throw the punches and land the kicks in the Square Mile when your heart has long since left for your life in leafy suburbia? When your heart has long since left for your wife and your two soppy toy dogs?
When you’re a success amongst the big earners, a face acknowledged and head-hunted (quite literally) by rival City firms, leaving the Square Mile behind is never as straightforward as you might hope. Your true colours aren’t just nailed to the mast; they’re tailored into the lining of your Savile Row suits.
RomperSuit charts Charlie Campbell-Fuller’s journey through the corporate world of City boys pushing up stock prices and trading slaps, big risks taken and savage thrashings dealt out for even bigger rewards. But the beat of batons on riot shields has started to follow Charlie back home to suburban summer barbecues, even stalks him at the fertility clinic and threatens his friendships and marriage alike.
As the two halves of Charlie’s life collide, will City life (and death) succeed in a hostile takeover? With split loyalties, multiple deceptions and sharp-suited violence reaching a crescendo – what will be the ultimate price for that year-end bonus?
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BrotherHood
Death to the Coypu!
People say Preston Hood should really have a word with himself; have several words, in fact. Aged 28, Preston has never entertained anything remotely risqué or adventurous, anything fun. But this mild-mannered, middle-manager has worked hard to be the person he is; Preston’s a man with responsibilities, providing for his wife and young family, setting his son on the right path and tutoring his daughter. He knows his place in decent society.
However, something sinister ... someone thrilling is approaching from his past, a reunion that triggers a revolution in Preston ... lost lunchtimes drinking with the Office Girls, hedonistic weekends clubbing with the Gay Casuals, a leaner, meaner manner that unlocks doors to unfamiliar worlds. Preston is breaking new frontiers and, as with the pioneers of old, a few innocents might have to die for him to advance civilisation.
But as reason is beaten into retreat and concealed demons wriggle free from their dark places Preston’s transformation is, ultimately, not quite the change everyone had hoped for ...
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