TWO LIVES

Dimitri Yassukovich is exiled by the Bolshevik revolution, builds a new life and career as a Wall Street investment banker, and lays the foundations in Europe for a one of the great investment banking houses of the City. His son, Stanislas, after an inglorious youth in the Gatsby land of Long Island, joins his father's firm White, Weld &Co, finds himself at the epicentre of the City's revival from postwar doldrums, and becomes an architect of the euromarkets. Two lives is a serious, and yet light-hearted account of a critical period in 20th century finance and of two unusual personalities.