Chris Coffman, author of Amazon #1 novel Crisis Deluxe has just completed A Prince Among Men, the first major novel set in the post-Covid world of the near-future.
In the immediate aftermath of the rigorous lockdowns in Sydney, Australia, life has seemingly returned to normal, but all is not well in the families of two investment banking partners, Mortimer Norton and Max Ring.
Norton & Ring has made enormous profits during Covid, but the windfall has only inflamed the egos and greed of Mortimer and Max. Meanwhile, the pressures of the lockdowns and managing their daughters’ well-being, education, and social lives have drawn their wives Alexandra Norton and Ilona Ring into a close friendship and made them loyal allies. Their daughters seem to have weathered the abnormal stresses and anxieties of the Covid era—until a disturbing post appears on social media.
A bitter split in their firm seems inevitable as Mortimer and Max maneuver for power just as the biggest deal of the century surfaces, while Alexandra and Ilona manage a growing crisis with their daughters, just as their husbands become enemies. Right when life seems to have returned to normal, the families risk being torn apart as husbands and wives, parents and children find themselves in harrowing conflicts that spill far beyond their homes and produce a widening struggle for money, power and social dominance that ultimately forces Sydney’s elite to take sides in an increasingly dangerous feud.
Sydney society becomes polarized as escalating consequences ripple through financial markets and the business community, the government, private schools, social events, and the surf beaches of Sydney, revealing a profoundly compromised society. Everybody knows Mortimer and Max and everybody has to choose one man to be loyal to, and one to betray.
Ultimately, the novel asks questions about the meaning of wealth, power and pleasure, and life itself, as Max Ring begins as a wealthy, married father in a prosperous partnership living in one of the most beautiful cities on earth, and soon finds himself on a journey of self-discovery that pushes Max to the absolute limit on his quest for real success in life.
Genre: Literary Fiction
In the immediate aftermath of the rigorous lockdowns in Sydney, Australia, life has seemingly returned to normal, but all is not well in the families of two investment banking partners, Mortimer Norton and Max Ring.
Norton & Ring has made enormous profits during Covid, but the windfall has only inflamed the egos and greed of Mortimer and Max. Meanwhile, the pressures of the lockdowns and managing their daughters’ well-being, education, and social lives have drawn their wives Alexandra Norton and Ilona Ring into a close friendship and made them loyal allies. Their daughters seem to have weathered the abnormal stresses and anxieties of the Covid era—until a disturbing post appears on social media.
A bitter split in their firm seems inevitable as Mortimer and Max maneuver for power just as the biggest deal of the century surfaces, while Alexandra and Ilona manage a growing crisis with their daughters, just as their husbands become enemies. Right when life seems to have returned to normal, the families risk being torn apart as husbands and wives, parents and children find themselves in harrowing conflicts that spill far beyond their homes and produce a widening struggle for money, power and social dominance that ultimately forces Sydney’s elite to take sides in an increasingly dangerous feud.
Sydney society becomes polarized as escalating consequences ripple through financial markets and the business community, the government, private schools, social events, and the surf beaches of Sydney, revealing a profoundly compromised society. Everybody knows Mortimer and Max and everybody has to choose one man to be loyal to, and one to betray.
Ultimately, the novel asks questions about the meaning of wealth, power and pleasure, and life itself, as Max Ring begins as a wealthy, married father in a prosperous partnership living in one of the most beautiful cities on earth, and soon finds himself on a journey of self-discovery that pushes Max to the absolute limit on his quest for real success in life.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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