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Square Mile
When a director of respected investment bank Steen, Odenberg & Co is discovered in his luxury Wapping penthouse strangled with his own silk Hermes tie, Steen's employee Anthony Carlton is reluctantly drawn into the investigations surrounding the death. All Anthony's enquiries seem to lead to a mysterious company known as EPIC, the European Property Investment Corporation recently launched by Steen's, and the trail will take him to Amsterdam, Frankfurth and Hong Kong. Anthony is about to uncover a fraud and embezzlement scam on a massive scale - and consequently find himself in grave danger.
- GenresFiction
396 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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January 10, 2018
This was a book that I booked up cheap at a secondhand book sale. Set in London's famous Square Mile, it opens with the director of a banking firm's London branch being found dead in his room, strangled with his own tie.
The book then introduces the central character, one of the bank's employees, Anthony Carlton, who for reasons that I wasn't entirely clear about, does the job of the police by investigating the man's death, his investigation taking him to other branches of his company around the world, as he gradually discovers a web of corruption, mostly revolving around a large property fund that the bank has launched.
I was expecting there to be further deaths, and I wasn't wrong, although the second death didn't come until somewhere around the middle of the book. I didn't think this was a brilliant book, being a bit too long-winded at times, but it was readable. It did make its main character somewhat three-dimensional by going into depth about his romantic life, and it did introduce a few plot twists near the end where a few things were made to be not quite what they first appeared to be, but one of the final chapters summed up events through a series of fictional newspaper articles, which I didn't find to be a great narrative device.
Overall, this book is worth reading, though I'm not sure if I would read it again.
The book then introduces the central character, one of the bank's employees, Anthony Carlton, who for reasons that I wasn't entirely clear about, does the job of the police by investigating the man's death, his investigation taking him to other branches of his company around the world, as he gradually discovers a web of corruption, mostly revolving around a large property fund that the bank has launched.
I was expecting there to be further deaths, and I wasn't wrong, although the second death didn't come until somewhere around the middle of the book. I didn't think this was a brilliant book, being a bit too long-winded at times, but it was readable. It did make its main character somewhat three-dimensional by going into depth about his romantic life, and it did introduce a few plot twists near the end where a few things were made to be not quite what they first appeared to be, but one of the final chapters summed up events through a series of fictional newspaper articles, which I didn't find to be a great narrative device.
Overall, this book is worth reading, though I'm not sure if I would read it again.
June 3, 2025
very gripping and l enjoyed how it took you inside corporate banking a great murder plit and how it unravelled
February 4, 2015
A difficult-to-put-down financial thriller. Competent writing, with an unusually realistic ending. I enjoyed reading it a second time every bit as much as the first (having left a good number of years in between).
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