Shoot for the Face

<p>Kill or be killed.</p><p>If you must be certain shoot for the face.</p><p>So this is another mafia story? Gangsters hoods?</p><p>Well no. It's a book about lawyers and bankers. </p><p>But these lawyers and bankers are trapped in the beginnings of what quickly turned out to be the most criminal society of modern times.</p><p>Public servants police ministers all the way up to the top are looking for targets.</p><p>Tax officials don't bother with polite letters. They raid their victims go through every file sell business secrets to competitors blackmail owners into destitution. </p><p>Jason Rogers Texan jumped at the opportunities thrown open by the collapse of Communism. </p><p>Carl Fitzmaurice South African lawyer young bored with the easy money in the London financial behemoth joins in.</p><p>Kandinsky oligarch stretches his financial luck and aims to get out of his nearly billion-dollar debts.</p><p>Pearson London lawyer only in it for the money - helps Kandinsky hide his money or thinks he does. </p><p>Akhmatov hails from a part of the East that has been a battleground for centuries. He hacks the legs off accountants and lawyers to order. That's his employers' way of collecting debts.</p><p>Ovchinnikov is a murderer for hire too. But he keeps a sense of proportion. When he needs to shoot the bodyguard he thinks it only fair to shoot the celebrity too.</p><p>Melnikov Cabinet Minister always in search of profits blackmail bribes.</p><p>Soloviev tax inspector not as cautious as he needs to be targets Jason Rogers. </p><p>This is a world where a bottle of average Bordeaux costs the equivalent of one month's pension.</p><p>The people in this book though live the high life - champagne caviar top restaurants smart young women who eat their male counterparts for breakfast.</p><p>And just about everyone comes to a grisly but spectacular end.</p>