Blind Trust

Marcus Caine is sixty-eight, charming, brilliant, and the founder of one of Boston's most successful hedge funds. He has spent thirty years building it. He has no intention of being the man who destroys it.

When the fund's audit committee, acting on a forensic accountant's quiet observation about fee calculations, hires Aldridge Associates to investigate, Caine becomes the subject of an inquiry he does not yet know is happening - and Bartholomew Aldridge's team has six weeks of cover before the firm realises an outside investigator is inside its walls.

What follows is a chess match. Aldridge's analyst Oliver Stone reconstructs an extraction architecture across four streams. Caine, when the cover breaks, deploys the legal and political defences of a man who has prepared for this moment for years. The confrontation between the two of them, when it comes, will not produce a confession. It will produce an argument - and the argument will reveal more than the evidence alone could prove.

Blind Trust is the fourth novel in the Associates series. An intellectual thriller about how the most consequential corruption of our era does not look like corruption - and about what it costs the people who see it clearly to act on what they have seen.