by Roman Klee
For example, all the names of the central characters have been changed (even though they are based on people who are no longer living). The novel employs satire, contains several allegorical references as well as the doubling of personalities. And the author is anonymous.
In The Banker’s Dilemma, readers get to glimpse the lives of super-rich people, who are used to getting their own way no matter what the cost to others. By recounting events through the eyes of the main character Nathan DeAngelis, a former banker employed by a secretive wealth management company, we are permitted to take a sneak peak behind the curtain.
The Banker’s Dilemma also reveals a surprising inversion of seventeenth-century trends. Today, the state’s agenda is set by powerful coteries (some are new, others are menacing and some have been present ever since governments and bankers walked together hand-in-hand).
By far the most influential is the financial coterie—currently charged with reviving the world economy by feeding markets the equivalent, of what one character in The Banker’s Dilemma calls wampum. (There was nothing as good as wampum to make every problem magically disappear.)
It’s as if our elected masters have shelved taking tough decisions. Instead, they have syndicated their roles to coteries of lobbying groups and a financial elite composed of unelected central bankers and the heads of financial institutions.
This process masks accountability, providing a convenient delay mechanism for the Micawberite politician, who hopes something better will turn up before the next election. Despite appearances to the contrary, the combined actions of the nouvelles coteries, have stretched the curtain wider and higher than ever before. And it grows more opaque with each passing day.
And there’s something else.
No one seems to have heard the sound of hammering.
But if you look very carefully, you can just make out the silhouette of a guy, carrying a nail pouch and a large hammer. He moves swiftly behind the scenes, making sure all the curtain’s edges are securely nailed down.
Imagine for a moment, if one of us got to take a peak and we discovered what’s really going on behind the curtain.
This is an extract from Roman’s Journal. To discover more about what motivates Roman to write, his main sources of inspiration and his current writing project go to: www.romanklee.com/Roman’s-Journal
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Thanks for reading to the end!
Roman
January 2015
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Published by Z>H>E> 2015
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Copyright © Roman Klěe 2015
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This novel is a work of fiction. All names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people, whether living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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