Charlie Wales left Edinburgh University with dreams of the high-life. Six months later, he is marooned in London, unemployed and living a dreary existence in a house he shares with the girl he loves (but who no longer loves him). Finally securing a job at
Silverbirch — a hedge-fund based in Mayfair, he begins to work in the brutal and remorseless world of high finance.
When the markets crash, Charlie sees the potential for an escape; but is he already too far immersed in the City to get out?
