A Casual Temptation: Crime never pays... or does it?

What would you do? In this financial crime thriller set inside a London bank, one discovery forces a rising banker to choose between his conscience and getting rich.

Neil Wilson is ambitious, talented and eager to make his mark at Hamlays Bank, London's corporate finance specialist. Newly appointed as a Key Account Manager, he has everything to play for.

Alexis Theophilou, the larger-than-life owner of an industrial empire, is a client who promises to make Neil's career. But when Neil stumbles upon a secret plan to defraud Hamlays of millions, he faces a choice that could change his life forever.

Does he expose the scheme, risking his career and everything he has worked for? Or succumb to the temptation of easy money and a future beyond his wildest dreams?

Whichever way he turns, Neil is drawn into a dangerous world of white-collar crime, loyalty and desire.

The manipulation of banking software in this novel is based on a real case, one the bank involved preferred to keep quiet. Stephen Barrett spent many years in the financial sector and experienced fraud first-hand.

A Casual Temptation is a gripping financial crime thriller that asks one unsettling question: when doing wrong offers everything you've ever wanted, how much is your integrity worth?

The first book of The Neil Wilson Financial Crime Series.

© 2026 Independently Published (Lydbog): 9783982618838

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Lydbog: 3. juni 2026