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Jay Michaelson spent 22 years as a Lloyd’s insurance broker, specialising in the placement of reinsurance contracts, both within Lloyd’s and the international reinsurance markets. He brings an insider’s approach to Lloyd’s, as an institution, although previously shrouded in respect, being beset in the 1980s and 1990s by many and diverse commercial pressures.

The author brings, through this fiction, a portrait of the various conflicts resulting; reflecting Lloyd’s establishment hierarchy known in the trade; as the Market Mafia, the intrigues known as the Magic Circles and the laissez-faire buccaneer spirit of many of the market personalities, with various underwriters being known in the market by their pseudonyms such as Goldfinger, Tricky D ...more

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