Paperback 269 pages ISBN 9781904959267 Author: Roger Willcocks Price £12.00 (price includes delivery worldwide) (this title is available as part of a promotion. See our special promotions page for details) Publication date 30 June 2005

Synopsis

"City of Liars" is an engaging thriller set in London against a corporate backdrop of high-tech and finance. In a good-natured fashion, it exposes much of what the author experienced as founder and CEO of a software company: high-tech boardrooms, the Internet boom, City life and the high-pressure roller-coaster times of the technology craze.

Readers will enjoy seeing the central character struggle through his personal and corporate life, confronted by an escalating series of dark discoveries, dangerous mishaps and emotional betrayals where it's impossible to know who's on the level and who's on the make. It's a high-tech The Firm, set in London.

The plot is centred on Travis Connors, a talented software designer, who lands a serious promotion when his state-of-the-art Internet banking system is bought by Europe's biggest bank. When he befriends the company's attractive but reticent auditor at the beer bash, everything is looking up. But, his good fortune quickly turns sour as his new role exposes him to accounting scandals, insider dealing and emotional deceit. When a vicious bug is discovered in his software Travis is sucked into a web of betrayal, violence and murder. The book opens with Travis, tottering on the windy roof of the company where he used to work, about to break in through the skylight in a final, desperate attempt to clear his name of fraud and murder.

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