In For a Penny, In For a Pound

Description

A penniless publisher teetering on the brink Hugh Emerson runs a small, prestigious publishing house. But literature doesn't pay the bills, and now his bestselling author is the subject of a salacious story in the gutter press. A newspaper dynasty struggling to survive Ned Macaulay, heir to a newspaper fortune and Hugh's best friend, steps in to help. But Ned has problems of his own. The family firm faces bankruptcy, and to save it he must outsmart the self-serving sycophants at Waring's bank. Ruthless bankers closing in the for the kill Hugh and Ned are about to be dragged into a cut-throat world of devious investors and muck-raking journalists. It's darker and dirtier than they ever imagined - and if they want to succeed, they'll have to pay dirty too .

Tim Waterstone read English at Cambridge University before moving to Calcutta to work for a broking firm. On returning to England, he worked at W.H. Smith for eight years, and went on to establish the bookselling chain Waterstone's in 1982. He became the founder chairman of HMV media group in 1998, which he left in 2001. He is currently the chancellor of Edinburgh Napier University and a board member of Yale University Press, as well as being a novelist and business speaker.

Tighter than Archer... [Waterstone's] psychological insight into the emotional lives of his characters is superior to much of this market * Guardian * The financial acrobatics are breathtaking... the drama comes from the dynamics between characters... Waterstone is painfully good at describing emotional shock and its aftermath... as a portrait of a world driven by narcissism, the novel is, dare one say it, first among equals * New Statesman * An episode of Dallas set in the UK and rewritten by Jeffrey Archer... good fun * The Times * An exciting Boardroom Struggle tale .... very good and very gripping, a page turner in the Archer mould ... there are wonderful scenes of the clash of wills, the jostling for position, the desperate machinations and dirty deals * The Lady *