The RecessionistasThe story begins the day after Labour Day 2008 when the bottom is about to drop out of the economy. Hedge fund owner John Cutter is freshly divorced and nearly in financial ruin. When he concocts a scheme to redeem himself he enlists Lehman Brothers investment banker Blake Somerset as an accomplice. Blake is ripe for recruitment given that he too is on the verge of being in dire financial straits given Lehman's decline and imminent bankruptcy. Blake's

witty and fast-paced' (The Sunday Times)

Anne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she blunders into a raid on a jewellers on the Champs-

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An elderly widow is murdered at a clifftop seaside house…

Although the girl is of the French bourgeoisie and below him

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