Charlie Wales is filled with dreams of a beautiful life. After graduating from university in the beautiful but provincial Edinburgh, he moves to London, dreaming of earning millions, dining in the best restaurants, and spending evenings in the most fashionable clubs. You just need to successfully jump on the powerful City of London Express, which will take you to success. But six months later, Charlie has no job, no money, and shares a roof with his best friend and the girl he's in love with, but who's on his own. And yet one day fate turns its face to Charlie - he is hired as an analyst at a well-known investment company. But the world will soon face a global financial and economic crisis... This book is so realistic that it seems as if you are reading about your friend who works in one of the banks. Pride, ambition, dreams of wealth - is all this worth sacrificing love, friendship and yourself? And what awaits the young man who willingly became a sacrificial lamb on the altar of big money? Alex Preston is called the voice of a lost generation of bankers and brokers. He wrote a beautiful and heart-stopping story about how even the best people can do terrible things.