ABOUT THIS BOOK
The genius of a master story-teller combines Money, People and Banking into a tense, totally absorbing story of the financial and personal crises behind the dignified bronze doors of a major bank.
AUTHOR OF THE BOOK
Arthur Hailey was born in 1920 at Luton, where he attended school, then worked as an office boy and clerk. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined Force and rose through the ranks to become a pilot and Flight Lieutenant. In 1974 he emigrated to Canada successively a real-estate salesman, business-magazine editor and a sales and advertising executive. He became a full-time author in 1956 following the overnight success of his television play ‘Flight into Danger’ which was performed worldwide, later becoming a novel and a film. In his long career as a novelist he wrote eleven novels which have been published in twenty-seven languages. Arthur Hailey died on November 24, 2004.
