Title: The Bonus
Description: Tim Farley, a former Navy SEAL, now a small time investment banker, sets his sights on the deal of a lifetime - a $3.5 billion financing for a world class oil company. While his MBA in Taxation helps him structure a clever deal, only his SEAL team training gives him any chance to overcome international gangsters, unscrupulous Wall Street executives, ruthless investors, African tribal rites, Russian bureaucracy, and assorted other nightmares as he fights to close his deal.
Subjects: oil, bonuses, Wall Street, SEALS, Africa, deals, Barents Sea, middle east bankers
Places: White Plains, N.Y., London, Kiev, Murmansk, Amman
Time periods: Present time