The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers
The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers
The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers by Paul Torday.
Paul Torday returns to the trademark humour of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen greed, redemption and dog food.
The money came out of nowhere. In the first years of the first decade of the new century, money flowed around the world as it had never done before. Then, somewhere, someone asked a question. ‘Can I have my money back?’
Hector Chetwode-Talbot, Eck to his friends, left the army after a rather nasty moment in Colombia. He is at a loss as to what to do next, until he is approached by an old army pal who persuades Eck to join his investment fund company.
Soon Eck is rolling in money and on a golfing trip abroad he meets Charlie Summers, a fly-by night entrepreneur who is hiding out in France after a ‘misunderstanding with Her Majesty’s Customs and Revenue’. Charlie soon turns up in Eck’s life, intent on relaunching his Japanese dog food business.
Two men from very different backgrounds. One has a high-powered job in the city. The other sells Japanese dog food. But who has the most to lose?
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