When Ben, a talented psychiatrist, first meets Harry, former chief executive of a failed Wall Street bank, he diagnoses him as suicidally depressed and admits him to hospital. But when Harry leaves Ben must keep him under observation, and is drawn into the financier's gilded world. After a colleague of Harry's dies amid revelations of fraud, Ben realises he has made a terrible error that threatens both his career and his life.
A Fatal Debt brilliantly sets a mysterious death amid the fallout of the global financial crisis and the workings of high finance in London and New York.