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Man in Armour

By: Siobhan McKenna
Narrated by: Laurence Boxhall
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How much money is enough? How powerful do you want to be? And what price will it extract from you? An intriguing, powerful and hard-hitting novel set in the world of big money and big deals, written by a leading business insider.

Charles lives in the testosterone-driven, high-powered, brutal world of investment banking. It is a world dominated by deals, bonuses, bravado, and savagery. Charles is a master of this world. Each day, he shrugs on a metaphorical suit of armour and goes out into a dog-eat-dog world to accumulate power and make money. He's a man who is familiar with casual brutality - his childhood saw to that.

But there is a price to pay. Now, at the peak of his career, his armour is rusted and bloodstained and no longer protecting him the way it once did. He finds himself empty. Always cold. No friends. A family that is falling apart.

Over the course of two days, everything in Charles' life comes into question. His carefully constructed world is starting to splinter - and he's splintering too.

Shocking and at times immensely moving, Man in Armour is a compelling story of a man at the end of his tether, written with a sharp-eyed, incisive focus that also carries real emotional - and moral - resonance. Written by an ultimate business insider - a woman who knows intimately and at first hand this world of power, money and deal-making - this novel carries an undeniable authenticity and force.

"The detailed setting of the finance world - the highs and lows, cutthroat practices and relentless pace -is vividly rendered ... Man in Armour is very readable." (Bookseller+Publisher)

"There's no doubt McKenna can write a page-turner." (Sydney Morning Herald)

©2020 Siobhan McKenna (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers

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I tried, but I couldn't finish it

I really tried to like it, but I had to stop because it is awful. Didn't finish it.
The story is nothing new. Charles is not Robinson Crusoe - he doesn't like his job or life. So what? Lots of people don't. There was absolutely nothing interesting about Charles at all.
The financial jargon is over simplified. Description of various transactions remedial. And references to things like 'Mining Co' ad "Oil Co' are ridiculous - just give the company a name. The books is fiction - there are no secrets to hide!!
The book is 'hyped' as being from a 'true insider". I'm an 'insider' and besides referencing things like cashflow and balance sheets, it gave no insight at all. Charles could have been a teacher and references made to white boards and lockers, and the story could have been the same. Same, but still boring.
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