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Julian Trevelyan-Tubal, a blue-blooded English banker with exquisite manners, has plenty of finesse work to do in Justin Cartwright’s novel, "Other People’s Money." As the narrative begins, Tubal and Co., the privately-owned bank that Julian leads, has run amok in toxic assets, thereby requiring the businessman to outmaneuver a host of worthy adversaries. Among these are an anonymous informant and reasonably alert journalists at a small newspaper in Cornwall. The journalists get going on the story when Artair MacCleod, the manager of a nearby theater company, complains that his grant from Tubal and Co. has gone dry. The journalists make note of it in a blog, and the informant emerges to provide details. Julian now has to prop up the bank and quell the story long enough to allow a sale to go through to a shrewd American financier. It’s a pleasure to watch Julian operate, relying as he does on sunshine instead of intimidation. His task is to keep everyone drinking the Kool-Aid until the numbers can be made to look legitimate. Replete with chicanery, delicious prose, and the theme of selling one’s soul vs. keeping the faith, Other People’s Money is a comedy lover’s treat.   

Review by Todd Robins 

Other People's Money (Paperback)

By Justin Cartwright

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9781608192731
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Published: Bloomsbury USA, 4/2011

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