The Pentecost Papers

<p><b>'Gloriously inventive, wonderfully entertaining, wickedly knowing . . . Read it and revel' </b>JOHN BANVILLE<br><b>'The unsung hero of his generation of novelists . . . Astute, funny and heartbreaking' </b>TANYA GOLD<br><br><b>Corruption, destruction, danger and murder: Welcome to the murky world of the super-rich. </b><br><br>Timothy ‘Timbo’ Smith, part-time healer and self-styled security analyst, travels down the <b>dark canyons of global capitalism</b>, from short-selling scams in the City to the depleted rainforests of Brazil.<br><br>His accomplices in <b>this irresistible safari through the late modern world</b> are two reformed alcoholics, the lovely and brilliant Lee ‘Lethal’ Thorold, and her husband Professor Luke Deverill, lecherous Oxford philosopher and caustic computer wizard. Their <b>misadventures </b>are 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 behind <b>the Machiavellian actions</b> of those who precede him.<br><br>From the author of the searing satire,<i> Making Nice</i>, comes his <b>most entertaining, perceptive and unflinching novel yet</b>, lifting the veil on the<b> seedy realities of modern life</b>.</p>