The Education of Charlie Aiken Kindle Edition

Charlie Aiken was a doctor who walked away from academic medicine when he couldn't stomach the hypocrisy of academia, and found similar issues in the pharmaceutical industry's corruption. Private equity, he told himself, would be different—or at least more honest about what it was.He was wrong.Working on the 39th floor of a Manhattan tower, Charlie rises to Senior Managing Director at a prestigious firm. The money is good. The work is interesting. The colleagues seem trustworthy. Then he notices anomalies in the deal structures—returns that don't match, allocations that appear and disappear, things not appearing as they should be.What Charlie discovers will cost him everything: his career, his colleagues, his comfortable certainties about his own integrity. A convicted felon is working through the firm, and Charlie can't seemingly trust anyone any longer. When he's offered a hefty sum to look the other way, Charlie has to decide who he really is—and whether he's willing to pay the price of finding out.The Education of Charlie Aiken is a literary thriller for readers who loved The Firm and Liar's Poker, written with the sardonic insider voice of Hunter S Thompson and the moral gravity of le Carré. It's a novel about Wall Street's seductions and betrayals, about the small compromises that lead to larger ones, and about one man's journey from comfortable blindness to a clarity he never wanted—and the long road back to something like redemption. Read more