By the 1860s the Pilasters are one of the worlds greatest banking families with connections that reach from the City of London to far-afield colonies. However as the family grow ever richer in the shadow of oppression and tragedy their very future is threatened - by the self-same ambition and greed that first earned them their fortune. A full-blooded melodrama complete with moustache-twirling villains saintly heroes wronged women and a lot of plot Irish Times Banks brothels and a high body count ...its all there Financial Times A compulsively readable enjoyable thriller-cum-saga Sunday Times
