The Mark and the Void

While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul´s fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. But Paul´s plan is not what it seems-and neither is Claude´s employer, the Bank of Torabundo, which inflates through dodgy takeovers and derivatives-trading until-well, you can probably guess how that shakes out...