A young man's guide to late capitalism
/ Peter Mountford
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2011.
- 289 p. ; 21 cm.
"A Mariner book."
On his first assignment for a rapacious hedge fund, Gabriel embarks to Bolivia at the end of 2005 to ferret out insider information about the plans of the controversial president-elect. If Gabriel succeeds, he secures his place at the company and wins a bonus that would secure him for life. Standing in his way is his headstrong mother, herself a survivor of Pinochet "s Chile, and Gabriel "s new love interest, the president "s passionate press liaison. Caught in a growing web of lies and questioning his own role in profiting off of an impoverished people, Gabriel sets in motion a terrifying plan that could cost him the love of all those he holds dear.