Two young management graduates, with nothing similar in family backgrounds and temperament, join New York International Bank on the same day and take entirely different routes to success. Both rise up the ranks at breakneck speed: the fast and aggressive Sundeep, who will stoop to anything to get ahead, and

the mature and sensible Swami, with a high regard for good old ethics. The racy narrative set in the high-pressure milieu of competitive banking carries the undercurrent of a clash of values in the intermeshed realms of the personal and the professional This is a story peppered with ambition and frustration, deceit and malevolence, love and lust, and the desperate struggle for status and power. And, above all, there is a top-notch banker who plays the benevolent God whenever crises loom over the young guns... An insider's fictionalised account of how Indian professionals

experience the world of foreign banks, the story spans three

continents.

Ravi Subramanian, an alumnus of IIM-Bangalore, batch of 1993,is currently working with a leading foreign bank in its Retail Banking unit. In a career spanning close to 14 years, he has worked with various MNC banks and now lives in Mumbai with his wife and daughter.