Charles Peattie Bücher

Alex Sweeps the Board - by Charles Peattie and Russell F. Taylor

One of two new volumes about the notorious merchant banker Alex, enjoying the benefits of the poll tax and fearing the imminent Labour government.

The fifth collection of cartoons from the business pages of the DAILY TELEGRAPH. The character continues to blast through life, buying and selling with impugnity and generally giving his colleagues the runaround. His affair with his female boss is causing a storm in the office.

In der Topetage einer Investmentbank glauben viele, dass es dort zielgerichtet und gewinnorientiert zugeht. Doch Alex, der Investmentbanker, der die Leser täglich an seinen Erlebnissen teilhaben lässt, ist das genaue Gegenteil. Faul, dekadent und geldgierig, scheut er keine Intrige und verkörpert damit einen ganz anderen Typus als den erfolgreichen Londoner Gentleman-Banker. Alex hat Kultstatus unter den Lesern, die sich nach seinen kleinen Gemeinheiten und Missgeschicken sehnen. Sein Charakter entspringt einem feinen britischen Humor, der besonders in einer von Anglo-Amerikanern dominierten Branche zur Geltung kommt. Für angehende Investmentbanker ist Alex ein Überlebenshandbuch, während er für andere zeigt, dass auch in weniger glamourösen Banken Freude herrschen kann. Die Lektüre verspricht viel Vergnügen und bietet einen unterhaltsamen Einblick in die Welt der Finanzwelt, die nicht immer so ernst ist, wie sie scheint. Steffen Klusmann, Chefredakteur der Financial Times Deutschland, lädt die Leser ein, Alex' Abenteuer zu verfolgen und sich von seinem unkonventionellen Ansatz inspirieren zu lassen.

Alex, the cartoon investment banker who resides on the business pages of the Daily Telegraph, emerges into a new Millennium just as arrogant and unpleasant as he was in the old. It's been the toughest year so far in Alex's fifteen-year career. His world is rocked by financial scandals, he discovers his boss is having an affair with the head of human resources and Alex must fight to retain his job as many of his colleagues are made redundant around him. Regardless of the chaos of his daily life, the irrepressible Alex still manages to humiliate his trainee Robin, ski, play golf and experience very odd dreams where he finds himself a pupil of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Alex has a huge following in the City of London and also in the Shires when the Telegraph reading parents of brokers, bankers and lawyers must sit and wonder what their highly paid offspring really get up to during working hours.

More tales of executive greed and duplicity from the business pages of the Daily Telegraph. After a year on the dole Alex has finally got himself a job back in a now unfamiliar City of London, which these days is run by compliance officers, lawyers and foreigners. But worse is to come. To our hero's dismay his new boss turns out to be an ex-colleague, the wimpish and ineffectual Clive, and Alex has to face up to the humiliation of grovelling to his former friend in order to secure himself a