A powerful contemporary novel set in London from a master of literary fiction.
Structured like a thriller, A WEEK IN DECEMBER takes place over the course of a
single week at the end of 2008. The central anti-hero, John Veals, is a shadily
successful and boundlessly ambitious Dickensian character who is trading
billions. The tentacles of Veals´s influence encompass newspaper columnists,
MPs, businessmen, footballers, a female tube driver, a Scottish convert to
Islam, a disaffected teenager, and a care worker, whose different perspectives
build up a tale of love, family and money as the story builds to its powerful
climax.
