Slippery

by Liam Carroll

Liam Carroll’s debut novel, Slippery, shines a blowtorch on the fundamental truths of the finance industry and the hedonistic world of the expatriate lifestyle in Southeast Asia. Flynn James, a young man from the Sydney beachside suburb of Manly, previously content to live his life as a physiotherapist and surfer on Australia’s east coast, is awakened to the big bonuses on offer in the trading game. He abandons health sciences, embraces the greed is good mantra and manages to flare past thousands of candidates in a Geneva simulation trading day exercise, ushered through the shady doors of a fiercely private Swiss commodities trading company and set on the path to oil trading superstardom.Based in Singapore and Shanghai, Flynn learns the ropes of commodities dealing at breakneck haste. With the arrival of his first seven-figure bonus, the glossy veneer of his overpaid world crumbles, setting the stage for a shattering finale. Much more than another mere exposé on the world of trading, Slippery is an adventure/thriller. It explores the gritty realities of successful commerce in the corporate maelstrom of Southeast Asia, the inevitable moral compass decimation when you place money above all else and is done so with a side-splitting, bitter self-loathing, terminal awareness. You won’t be able to put it down.

389 pages, Paperback

Published May 26, 2015

About the author

I was born in Sydney at the regally named Royal North Shore Hospital in 1980. Everything from that point on is somewhat of a mystery. I've written books and screenplays, traded oil and gold, surfed in funky places where no one goes, worked as a physiotherapist, completed studies in science, finance and screenwriting and, on the whole, I've been a very lucky boy. Not always, but far too often to ever have anything to whinge about. Happy reading! And best of luck with your writing for everyone brave enough to put pen to page and see where it leads them. Oh, and of course, don't trust anything you read, ever! Least of all if I wrote it! Make up your own mind about anything and everything with any and every piece of evidence and intuition you can, and you'll always be in the rarified air of people I love talking to. Cheers, Liam Carroll