The typical fraudster is male, aged 36 to 45, holds a senior job in finance, has worked forhis company for more than a decade and acts in collusion with a partner.
Without the heroine-centred, questlike focus of Mr Faulks's romantic narrative, Mr Binding is able to move freely among a variety of characters, up and down the social scale and across both sides, keeping his eyes on the actualities of power and collusion, and letting the grand implications speak for themselves.