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Banish your new year blues with a dose of Dave Hart, investment banking anti-hero

In an exclusive extract from David Charters’ new book, The Ego Has Landed, Dave Hart makes a triumphant return as head of investment banking at Erste Frankfurter Grossbank after recuperating from a failed assassination attempt and his trio of addictions to drink, drugs and sex – in theory anyway.

Two Livers is angry. I only made it into the office at three in the afternoon, after an all-night party. I don’t feel exactly brilliant, though I have a feeling that if only I could remember where I went and what I was doing, I must have had a great time. I sit at my desk, trying to look as if I’m concentrating, while all the time resisting the urge to run to the bathroom and throw up.

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