Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers

A modern Tale of Two Cities from the best-selling author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN. Post a successful army career, Hector Chetwode-Talbot has taken up an old friends offer to work at a hedge-fund entertaining and bringing in new contacts. It seems an easy life and Eck is enjoying the fruits of it all when, on a golfing trip to France, he first meets Charlie Summers, a fly-by-night entrepreneur hiding out after a 'misunderstanding' with Revenue and Customs! Initially distancing himself, it is with the financial crisis looming that Eck starts to wonder if they are different after all...