Set in the investment banking and private equity industry in London, Tokyo, Tasmania and East Africa, The Knights Errant is a financial thriller that follows the life of Jim McDonald, a forty-four-year-old banker at Montefiore Bank, the three-hundred year-old blue-blood private bank in the City of London. When Jim is requested by the Montefiore Bank Chairman, Sir Michael Montefiore, to travel from London to Tokyo to track down Sean Burns, the renegade head of Montefiore Bank's Asian operations, he is propelled into a dangerous and opaque world, where the most powerful institutions of global finance are used as a tool for political manipulation. It is a world from which Jim and his young family will not recover.
Set in the investment banking and private equity industry in London, Tokyo, Tasmania and East Africa, The Knights Errant is a financial thriller that follows the life of Jim McDonald, a forty-four-year-old banker at Montefiore Bank, the three-hundred year-old blue-blood private bank in the City of London. When Jim is requested by the Montefiore Bank Chairman, Sir Michael Montefiore, to travel from London to Tokyo to track down Sean Burns, the renegade head of Montefiore Bank's Asian operations, he is propelled into a dangerous and opaque world, where the most powerful institutions of global finance are used as a tool for political manipulation. It is a world from which Jim and his young family will not recover.