It’s the Culture

What’s going on?

Lino Squagliace has been sent to Brazil to report on Excet, a sprawling financial complex which may be ripe for an American takeover. He is overwhelmed by a seemingly random labyrinth of technology, sex, luxury, drugs and financial genius which could be either a gold mine or a land mine.

How can Lino cope with a society where the street muggers are young and pretty, adults legally adopt other adults and grown men fight with guns over the right to a parking space? Will he become used to having personal bodyguards, before and behind, who slip in and out of the shadows as he explores this most exotic of cultures?

And what will Lino’s billionaire patron think of company executives who sometimes embrace Lino (intimately as well as figuratively) but at other times seem bent on manipulating his trusted auditor into being the front man for a complicated financial scam?