Can your enemy be a friend? Could you friend be the enemy? Can you tell the difference?An Oligarch, a Banker, a billion dollars. When Nick de Carteret meets Tselmeg Yusupov he doesn’t know whether to love or hate the Oligarch-turned-President of Kuikbakhistan. All Nick does know, with the certainty of an abused child desperate for validation, is that he needs to be the best- and very rich. Born in the gutter, Nick left home as a teenager and began the single-minded, uncompromising pursuit of anything and everything which could validate his worth, falling into the world of high finance anMored low politics. Yusupov chooses Nick to manage his money profitably, unhindered by moral or legal trivia.

The two men are mirror images. Each has an irresistible urge to be the best, whatever the cost. As their relationship develops into the most violent extremes, they begin to realise how high that cost could be, and the eternal truth that there is only ever room for one at the top. 

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