Pass the Parcel

It's 2008 and the Global Financial Crisis is upon the World . The Establishment turns a blind eye as banks shuffle toxic financial packages around the system to unsuspecting victims. A hedge fund manager has just placed the biggest bet of his investment career. Market manipulation is suspected, but can he discover who is trying to destroy him before it's too late? A hard-working Mexican couple are fighting foreclosure to save their house in San Francisco. In London, a banker discovers his employer is about to embezzle assets from his brother's property business. And, a rising star of British politics is being blackmailed by an ex-professional footballer. When the former player is murdered as well, the politician and his wife become key suspects. Pass the Parcel is a financial thriller that explores the human psychology around financial decisions and how the lives of a group of people were changed beyond recognition by the financial crash.