The Pentecost Papers 9781526682772 Paperback

‘Gloriously inventive, wonderfully entertaining, wickedly knowing . . . Read it and revel’JOHN BANVILLE’The unsung hero of his generation of novelists . . . Astute, funny and heartbreaking’TANYA GOLDCorruption, destruction, danger and murder: Welcome to the murky world of the super-rich.Timothy Timbo Smith, part-time healer and self-styled security analyst, travels down thedark canyons of global capitalism, from short-selling scams in the City to the depleted rainforests of Brazil.His accomplices inthis irresistible safari through the late modern worldare two reformed alcoholics, the lovely and brilliant Lee Lethal Thorold, and her husband Professor Luke Deverill, lecherous Oxford philosopher and caustic computer wizard. Theirmisadventuresare followed at a bewildered distance by the played-out diplomatic correspondent Dickie Pentecost, who tags along mostly because Timbo is the only man who can cure his agonising back and is always one step behindthe Machiavellian actionsof those who precede him.From the author of the searing satire,Making Nice, comes hismost entertaining, perceptive and unflinching novel yet, lifting the veil on theseedy realities of modern life.