{"product_id":"9781608195411","title":"Other People's Money: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a world still uneasy after the financial turmoil of 2008, Justin \u003cbr\u003eCartwright puts a human face on the dishonesties and misdeeds of the \u003cbr\u003ebankers who imperiled us. Tubal and Co. is a small, privately owned bank\u003cbr\u003e in England. As the company's longtime leader, Sir Harry Tubal, slips \u003cbr\u003einto senility, his son Julian takes over the reins-and not all is well. \u003cbr\u003eThe company's hedge fund now owns innumerable toxic assets, and Julian \u003cbr\u003efears what will happen when their real value is discovered. \u003c\/p\u003eArtair\u003cbr\u003e Macleod, an actor manager whose ex-wife, Fleur, was all but stolen by \u003cbr\u003eSir Harry, discovers that his company's monthly grant has not been paid \u003cbr\u003eby Tubal. Getting no answers from Julian, he goes to the local press, \u003cbr\u003eand an eager young reporter begins asking questions. Bit by bit, the \u003cbr\u003ereporter discovers that the grant money is in fact a payoff from Fleur, \u003cbr\u003ewritten off by the bank as a charitable donation, and a scandal breaks. \u003cbr\u003eJulian's temperament and judgment prove a bad fit for the economic \u003cbr\u003eforces of the era, and the family business plunges into chaos as he \u003cbr\u003etries to hide the losses and massage the balance sheet.A story both cautionary and uncomfortably familiar, \u003ci\u003eOther People's Money \u003c\/i\u003eis\u003cbr\u003e not a polemic but a tale of morality and hubris, with the Tubal family \u003cbr\u003eultimately left searching only for closure. Bold, humane, urbane, full \u003cbr\u003eof rich characters, and effortlessly convincing, this is a novel that \u003cbr\u003ereminds us who we are and how we got ourselves here.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165656629488,"sku":"9781608195411","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608195411_p0.jpg?v=1763838229","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608195411","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}