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  • Peter
  • Howard,
  • a
  • soon-to-retire
  • bank
  • manager
  • in
  • a
  • large
  • Irish
  • town
  • during
  • the
  • Celtic
  • Tiger,
  • is
  • asked
  • to
  • temporarily
  • take
  • over
  • the
  • job
  • of
  • Joan
  • Archer,
  • a
  • colleague
  • who
  • has
  • been
  • suspended
  • from
  • duty
  • without
  • explanation.
  • Peter
  • deals
  • with
  • the
  • impact
  • on
  • the
  • staff,
  • the
  • self-serving
  • attitude
  • of
  • Joan’s
  • customers
  • and
  • the
  • trauma
  • caused
  • to
  • her
  • family.
  • His
  • enthusiasm
  • for
  • the
  • role
  • is
  • gradually
  • eroded
  • as
  • he
  • contends
  • with
  • the
  • bank’s
  • flawed
  • procedures
  • and
  • the
  • inefficiency
  • of
  • self-regulation.
  • As
  • a
  • web
  • of
  • tax
  • evasion,
  • money
  • laundering
  • and
  • property
  • speculation
  • is
  • revealed,
  • Peter
  • unwittingly
  • becomes
  • enmeshed
  • in
  • a
  • situation
  • which
  • endangers
  • his
  • own
  • job
  • and
  • reputation
  • while
  • we
  • encounter
  • a
  • banking
  • system
  • which
  • contains
  • the
  • seeds
  • of
  • its
  • own
  • inevitable collapse.
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