Twilight of the Banks

In this contemporary novel a marshal in Italy's Tax Police sets in motion a Euro 420 billion asessment against 10 big banks for their foreign exchange trading in Italy, which is deemed a form of bookmaking and so subject to the country's Unified Gambling Tax. Other characters include a Hakka trader at New York's Goldberg Stein investment bank, who is an energetic philanderer and consummate mathematician, and his bosses, the happy-go-lucky Good Quant from India and the icy, calculating Bad Quant from Russia.