Audio Book Description:
It is an April day in the year 2000and an era is about to end - those booming times of market optimism when the culture boiled with money andcorporatoins seemed more vital and influential than governments. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset managerat age 28, emerges from hispenthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. On this day he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmicbet against the yen and to get a haircutacross town. His journey to the barbershop is a contemporary odyssey, funny and fast-moving. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade,a music idol`s funeral and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a stringof visitors - his experts on security, technology, currency, finance and theory. Sometimes he leaves the car for sexual encounters and sometimes hedoesn`t have to.
