If Tony Gould, head of international banking at the Manhattan Banking Corporation, can prod his fellow bankers to syndicate a one billion dollar loan to the African Republic of Maraka, the rewards will be rich. His bank would rise to the top ranks in the New York banking world, and Tony would be one step closer to replacing Miles Vanderpane as Chairman and CEO. Tony has many obstacles to surmount: Maraka has natural resources, but it is massively corrupt; its elite live like kings while most starve; and multinational coporations routinely bribe the government for a piece of the action. Closer to home, both the bank's Risk Manager, who won't approve the loan, and Vanderpane stand in Tony's way. Often satiric, Skim is a novel grounded in the real world of high-stakes banking. This absorbing story can serve as a cautionary tale as it illuminates the irresponsible behaviors underlying the near collapse of the banking system in 2008.|If Tony Gould, head of international banking at the Manhattan Banking Corporation, can prod his fellow bankers to syndicate a one billion dollar loan to the African Republic of Maraka, the rewards will be rich. His bank would rise to the top ranks in the New York banking world, and Tony would be one step closer to replacing Miles Vanderpane as Chairman and CEO. Tony has many obstacles to surmount: Maraka has natural resources, but it is massively corrupt; its elite live like kings while most starve; and multinational coporations routinely bribe the government for a piece of the action. Closer to home, both the bank's Risk Manager, who won't approve the loan, and Vanderpane stand in Tony's way. Often satiric, Skim is a novel grounded in the real world of high-stakes banking. This absorbing story can serve as a cautionary tale as it illuminates the irresponsible behaviors underlying the near collapse of the banking system in 2008.

In the novel George Evans, the title character and his friend Charles Fletcher both aspire to live the alluring life of an international banker in 1960s London. Told in the form of a conversation between George and another old friend, this novel recounts the dual quest of George and Charles. Their story begins outside the London offices of Thomson Guthrie, an American private bank. They take an immediate liking to each other over lunch. Charles is merely passing through London, though, and soon returns to New York to begin his banking career. The two friends are briefly reunited when Charles takes a job at Thomson Guthrie in London, but are separated again when Charles returns to New York. After the devaluation of sterling in 1967 and the boom in shipping created by the Arab-Israeli war, Thomson Guthrie decides it needs a shipping division, and appoints Charles and George to run it. Because Thomson Guthrie is an American bank, Charles is named head and George is his number two. It is George, however, who has a better understanding of banking and keeps Thomson Guthrie from losing money. George begins to resent Charles until one night when Charles quotes advice from his father: "The worst thing that anyone can do is to spend his life doing something he does not want to do." Interpreting this as a personal statement, George decides to give Charles' life more meaning. Through love affairs, familial connections, and a changing banking industry, George and Charles remain friends.

In the novel George Evans, the title character and his friend Charles Fletcher both aspire to live the alluring life of an international banker in 1960s London. Told in the form of a conversation between George and another old friend, this novel recounts the dual quest of George and Charles. After the devaluation of sterling in 1967 and the boom in shipping created by the Arab-Israeli war, Thomson Guthrie decides it needs a shipping division, and appoints Charles and George to run it. Because Thomson Guthrie is an American bank, Charles is named head and George is his number two. Through love affairs, familial connections, and a changing banking industry, George and Charles remain friends. A. F. Gillotti is a former international banker with a deep knowledge of London and of English understatement and nuance. The dialogue is fast-paced and the scenes often humorous. But there is a more menacing undertone, revealing that betrayal is the currency of the modern age, and that life as a banker in London is no longer the glamorous life it once was.