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Bulge Bracket: Book 1: Building
London, 1999. A young outsider arrives with a two-year visa, a borrowed couch, and the belief that if he works hard enough, the city will make room.
It does. But not gently.
From the back office of a forgettable securities firm to the glass towers of a global investment bank, Adam learns the rules of a world that rewards ambition and punishes hesitation. He fixes what's broken. He makes himself unavoidable. He earns a seat at a table he was never supposed to reach.
But the machine that builds you is the same machine that owns you. And when New York calls, the cost of saying yes is measured in everything he'll leave behind.
Bulge Building is the first book in a five-part series about money, identity, and the price of becoming someone the world takes seriously.
For readers of Liar's Poker, Shoe Dog, and anyone who's ever wondered what happens inside the buildings where the money lives.
It does. But not gently.
From the back office of a forgettable securities firm to the glass towers of a global investment bank, Adam learns the rules of a world that rewards ambition and punishes hesitation. He fixes what's broken. He makes himself unavoidable. He earns a seat at a table he was never supposed to reach.
But the machine that builds you is the same machine that owns you. And when New York calls, the cost of saying yes is measured in everything he'll leave behind.
Bulge Building is the first book in a five-part series about money, identity, and the price of becoming someone the world takes seriously.
For readers of Liar's Poker, Shoe Dog, and anyone who's ever wondered what happens inside the buildings where the money lives.
224 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 28, 2026
About the author
Adam Knox
12 booksAdam Knox writes fiction and practical career guides about work, ambition, money, power and the systems people are rarely taught to navigate.
His fiction includes the Bulge Bracket series, a literary finance series following Adam through the machinery of global banking, ambition and personal cost.
He is also the author of Here’s Where to Start, a series of short, practical career guides covering job security, managing up, visibility, promotion, office politics, negotiation, AI, difficult conversations and leaving well.
His books are written for readers who want the useful version first: clear, direct and grounded in how work actually works.
His fiction includes the Bulge Bracket series, a literary finance series following Adam through the machinery of global banking, ambition and personal cost.
He is also the author of Here’s Where to Start, a series of short, practical career guides covering job security, managing up, visibility, promotion, office politics, negotiation, AI, difficult conversations and leaving well.
His books are written for readers who want the useful version first: clear, direct and grounded in how work actually works.
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