How Much is Enough? Read an Extract from Siobhan McKenna’s New Novel, Man in Armour

How Much is Enough? Read an Extract from Siobhan McKenna’s New Novel, Man in Armour

The deal had stalled.

All the workstreams had been on track when Charles left the office just before midnight. There was only the usual mopping-up to do before the formal signing and market announcement in the morning.

But now, somehow, at 4 am, the deal was in disarray.

Charles flung terse, white-vapoured comments into the phone. His body urged to shiver but he subdued it; it was his body and it would damn well do as he instructed.

He clambered into the black cab outside his silent house. David’s panicked voice was in his ear. Apologising.

Explaining.

Apologising.

Suggesting.

Apologising. Apologising.

It was a big deal.  For everyone.  For Mining Co.  For Oil Co. For the plethora of advisors. Fuck. It represented two years of Charles’s life.

What the hell had gone wrong?

 

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      Publisher details

      Man in Armour
      Author
      Siobhan McKenna
      Publisher
      HarperCollins
      Genre
      Fiction
      Released
      05 August, 2020
      ISBN
      9781460758779

      Synopsis

      How much money is enough? How powerful do you want to be? And what price will it extract from you? An intriguing, powerful and hard-hitting novel set in the world of big money and big deals, written by a leading business insider. Charles lives in the testosterone-driven, high-powered, brutal world of investment banking. It is a world dominated by deals, bonuses, bravado and savagery. Charles is a master of this world. Each day he shrugs on a metaphorical suit of armour and goes out into a dog-eat-dog world to accumulate power and make money. He's a man who is familiar with casual brutality - his childhood saw to that.But there is a price to pay. Now, at the peak of his career, his armour is rusted and bloodstained and no longer protecting him the way it once did. He finds himself empty. Always cold. No friends. A family that is falling apart.Over the course of two days, everything in Charles' life comes into question. His carefully constructed world is starting to splinter - and he's splintering too.Shocking and at times immensely moving, Man in Armour is a compelling story of a man at the end of his tether, written with a sharp-eyed, incisive focus that also carries real emotional - and moral - resonance. Written by an ultimate business insider - a woman who knows intimately and at first hand this world of power, money and deal-making - this novel carries an undeniable authenticity and force.
      Siobhan McKenna
      About the author

      Siobhan McKenna

      Siobhan McKenna is chairman or director of several companies including Foxtel, Nova Entertainment, Woolworths and Illyria. During her career she has worked in telecommunications, oil and gas, healthcare and government. She was a commissioner of the Australian Productivity Commission, a chairman of NBNCo and a partner of McKinsey & Company. She lives in Melbourne with her husband and three teenage sons. Man in Armour is her first novel.

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