One Last Deal

One Last Deal is the confessions of an unrepentant con-man. Businessman, Daniel Fogg, tells his own story about how his grandiose ambitions to build a global financial empire fell victim to greed, ego and vanity. 

It all begins when he makes the life-changing decision to move his business to the exotic island tax-haven of Malzano, home of celebrities, defunct aristocracy and self-made billionaires. 

Daniel is at a point in his life when he ‘craves youth, energy, glamor and risk’, cravings that lead him to make dangerous liaisons and poor decisions. A self-described ‘hustler with a conscience’, Daniel tries to make a sport of accumulating wealth and he wants to play a ‘good clean game’, but Malzano’s glittering façade belies the treachery, avarice and corruption of a regime that’s out to get him. 

Aggravated by personal tragedy, weakness of character and an over-charged ego, he resorts to lying, cheating and fraud for his own survival. Although One Last Deal has many elements of popular crime fiction – glamor, mystery, murder, sex, betrayal, treachery – it is, at heart, a tale of personal pathos about a man whose vanity drives him to reach beyond his grasp. 

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