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In 2007 London was one of the biggest financial hubs in the world and this was a great boon to the Labour government of the time, but lapsed oversight meant that it was also one of the most at risk to the Subprime Mortgage crash. The Crash, by Robert Peston, (Bonnier Zaffre) was published on September 14; The Rest is Money launched earlier this month. It’s a questionable decision: we soon learn she is scared of the dark and months of pitch-black winter are looming. His debut novel, a slickly paced thriller titled The Whistleblower, is set in London in 1997 as Labour’s modernising new leader prepares to sweep the party to power in a general election. Winter Counts is both a solid take on a trope familiar to readers of crime and western genres – the lone man’s quest for justice – and an authentic and humane view of a largely unreported world, ravaged by years of systemic oppression.
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It’s a self-styled homage to Raymond Chandler, set in and around the US naval base at the entrance to Tokyo Bay, featuring hard-drinking police officer Eiji Futamura.But if it is, he certainly does not spare himself: Peck is thoughtless, tactless and utterly self-obsessed, until the death of his high-flying civil servant sister shakes him out of his smug little world. When Maite’s neighbour, the glamorous Leonora, disappears, Maite, looking for a few thrills in her humdrum life, sets out to find her, discovering her links to student radicals and some very dangerous people. If so, perhaps he would care to explain to his readers why he chooses to dumb down such an intelligently written book as The Crash with an avalanche of totally unnecessary expletives, for example, 70 variations of the f-word? His former colleague at the Financial Chronicle, Jess Neeskens, is still a close friend and features strongly in this story which starts with Gil discovering problems at Banque de Maghreb, who have to freeze a fund heavily invested in ‘sub prime’ mortgages from US banks (does this ring a bell? This is a complex and satisfying tale of the sacrifices we make, the way we betray one another and the slippery nature of memory: perfect holiday reading.
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When it came to someone he could work with, Steph McGovern’s name came up as the consumer and business journalist had also been Peston’s producer on the BBC when he was first reporting on the 2008 financial crash. McDermid, who worked as a journalist in the 70s and 80s, gives a nail-biting account of the newsroom, and Allie is another character I’m looking forward to learning more about.If they think I’d be any good, I think it’s mostly a function of how terrible the current lot may be.
Robert Peston | 9781838777784 | NetGalley The Crash | Robert Peston | 9781838777784 | NetGalley
There’s more than might be expected here about the tax status of pension funds, but this debut novel is a hell of a read.His dogged determination to uncover what is behind the death of his close personal friend leads him into situations that he risks his life in. Although he has his flaws, he was a great protagonist and maybe his flaws actually helped make him relatable. The story is set against a backdrop of organisations which believe that they are too big to fail, where they gamble with other people’s money and if they lose, hey ho, they already have their 7 figure bonuses. He is constantly looking out for the next big scoop something nice and juicy that he can really get his teeth into and report on it. And, together with long-time business journalist Steph McGovern, Peston has launched a podcast, ‘The Rest is Money’, part of the wildly successful Gary Lineker Goalhanger stable — including The Rest is Politics and The Rest is History.
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Overall, I found it to be an interesting, multilayered political thriller that maintained my interest throughout. Congratulations to the author and thanks to NetGalley and Ellie at Bonnier Books for the opportunity to preview. I now have a far better understanding of what happened in 2008 and, frankly, the financial system and financial capitalism and multinational financial arrangements are terrifying!I found the process of writing it really enjoyable for two reasons: it was quite fun travelling back in time and I hadn’t realised quite how liberated I would feel not having to worry about the truth. As someone who studied economics, I had no issues following the more detailed sections, but some readers may be as bored by them now as they were then – hence one of the reasons that there was a crash as no one was interested in mortgage issues for the poor. Already author of four non-fiction titles, Peston has now turned his attention to fiction, with debut yarn The Whistleblower – a romping thriller, un-weaving the Westminster web through the eyes of political journalist Gil Peck, against the backdrop of the 1997 general election. is Robert Peston's highly personal account of what those who have ruled us for years got so badly wrong, and what we need to do to mend the terrible fractures in our society. I started writing a novel in my 20s and I’ve still got the old Amstrad printout in my loft – I never finished it and I’m sure it’s terrible.
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