Bad money
By: Louise Patten
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781847249135
Subjects: Women executives; Fiction; Work and family; Hedge funds; Corporations; Corrupt practices
Description: Mary Kersey, the breadwinner in her family, juggles her job as a high-flying management consultant at Lock Chase with trying to be a good mother to her 8-year-old daughter Grace. Dr Alan Dove, CEO of biotechnology company, Pneumatech, wants to buy a competitor who specialises in cosmetics, F-ACE. Enter Ivan Strawe, evil genius head of M & A at Wolkenbank, who'll find a way to lower the F-ACE share price with the help of a hedge fund that's only too happy to help. Meanwhile Mary, who surprisingly retains a conscience in this dog-eat-dog world, is recruited by the Treasury to investigate dodgy dealings at hedge funds. Her world and that of Dove and Kona are set on a collision course.