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Slippery Kindle Edition

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Liam Carroll’s debut novel, Slippery, shines a blowtorch on the smoldering home truths of the finance industry and the hedonistic minefields of the expatriate lifestyle in Southeast Asia.

Flynn James, a young man from the Sydney beachside suburb of Manly, previously content to live his life as a physiotherapist and surfer on Australia’s east coast, is awakened to the zero-heavy bonuses of the finance world. He abandons the sleepy life of health sciences, embraces the greed is good mantra and manages to flare past thousands of candidates in a Geneva simulation trading day exercise. He is ushered through the shady doors of a fiercely private Swiss commodities trading company and set on the path to oil trading superstardom. Based in Singapore and Shanghai, Flynn learns the ropes of commodities dealing at breakneck haste. With the arrival of his first seven-figure bonus, the glossy veneer of his overpaid world crumbles, setting the stage for a shattering finale.

Much more than another mere exposé on the world of trading, Slippery is an adventure/thriller. It explores the gritty realities of successful commerce in the corporate maelstrom of Southeast Asia, the inevitable moral compass decimation when you place money above all else and is done so with a constant side-splitting, bitter self-loathing, terminal awareness.

You won’t be able to put it down.

Length: 391 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English	Age Level: 18 - 18
Grade Level: 12 - 12

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Around the age of 25 I sniffed out the eternal truth, there's big money in the money game. There are no rules, brains or ethics, but there's money...truckloads upon truckloads of easy money. I enrolled in a post grad finance course and lucked into commodities trading, pretending to understand not only what derivatives are, but also how to make money trading the things. I graduated from derivatives to physical oil; slippery, slimy, glorious oil. Slippery is my attempt to open up the world of oil trading and Asia. Both are hedonistic minefields where a moral compass is your biggest liability and the depravity of the human spirit is rubbed in your face all day, every day. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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File Size: 1789 KB
Print Length: 391 pages
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Language: English
ASIN: B00XZPL70Y
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Geoff

Incredible story!

Reviewed in Australia on 22 June 2015

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This was a fantastic read! In "Slippery" we spend a few years in Flynn's shoes (and his mind) as Carroll takes us on a journey throughout South East Asia, exposing an industry and expatriot scene in a way that is rarely spoken about. Using raw and colourful language, Carroll doesn't hold back as he teaches us about the ins and outs of the men in suits who make millions from the finance industry - in particular those who work in metal and oil trading - breaking down seemingly complex financial theories and concepts using blunt, sarcastic and humerous analogies. And once we're able to to understand what a joke the whole concept is, we're given an explicit and uncensored insider's view as to what these guys get up to in their free time, often in the seedy red light districts that plague cities such as Singapore and Shanghai.

Highly recommended for anyone who has travelled, knows someone in the finance sector, or has ever been curious about ex-pat life.

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Trish the dish

Slippery delivers

Reviewed in Australia on 26 October 2018

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This is one hell of a read. I'd call it man lit except that I loved it and I'm a woman, if that's okay in these gender fluid days. It drops more F and C bombs in the first couple of chapters than any other book I've read but the inventiveness of their use makes them impossible to find offensive. It's like Fight Club meets Wolf of Wall Street and a touch of Bourne Identity because the protagonist, Flynn, is quite naive and lovable even though he tries to keep these traits buried. It would make a great movie. I've read it a few times now and the parts that describe walking crowded streets and catching crowded trains in Shanghai are the passive bits but make you feel like you're right there with Flynn. This Liam bloke knows how to write.

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Jesse Gardiner

Slippery for Prime Minister!!!

Reviewed in Australia on 30 August 2015

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what an epic read! From start to finish I was literally laughing out loud from Flynn's brutally honest depiction of life as a flukey oil trader pushing every boundary possible. For aspiring traders and finance graduates this book is a must read to get you suitably salivating about the ridiculous amounts of money on offer to those ballsy enough to go after it. outstanding first novel and I'm hanging out to find out what Flynn James gets up to next.

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Jeshayle Singh

Blown away

Reviewed in Australia on 2 June 2015

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One of the best adventures I've been on without leaving the couch. I did not want the book to end. This book makes me want to experience some of the hilarious and ridiculous events that occurred, seriously considering getting a job as an oil trader in Asia now. Can't wait for the movie to come out.

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simon reeves

This is a great story that really rolls along

Reviewed in Australia on 22 May 2015

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This is a great story that really rolls along, you feel like the author is speaking to you the whole time. It offers some hilarious anecdotes and really opens up the world of commodities and derivatives trading, while at the same time providing a really interesting story.

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Emily

Really enjoyed the book

Reviewed in Australia on 19 August 2015

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Really enjoyed the book. A rollicking read with lots of juicy details.
My boyfriend enjoyed it too - kept me awake by laughing out-loud throughout it!

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Andy Colby

Tops read

Reviewed in Australia on 28 September 2015

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As I'm someone who doesn't normally read. This book trapped me in and I couldn't put it down till the end. Hilarious humour and lots of Action. Only minimal anti Government rants

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lisa cooper

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 15 July 2015

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awesome book couldnt put it down.loved it.

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Max Allen

Top Notch Slip

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 January 2018

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Scarily accurate and absolutely hilarious - sat on the MRT in hysterics. Can't wait for the sequel !!

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Nicholas

Fantastic read and great insight into the life of debauched ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 June 2015

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Fantastic read and great insight into the life of debauched young hot shot trader can get up to in flipper land!

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James Vella Bardon

Hilarious, rollicking account

Reviewed in the United States on 21 April 2018

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The protagonist’s first person descriptions throughout this novel cut like a flick knife and had me in stitches as I read about the trials of Flynn James who seeks to become a ... erm ... filthy rich trader (best not employ the word constantly used by the protagonist to describe his career goal in a public forum). The cutthroat world of traders is recounted with raw, unbridled swagger, free of any diplomacy or excessive political correctness. The vibrant prose is refreshing in that it constantly highlights confronting topics about modern day life, coupled with an irreverent turn of phrase that is at all times hilarious. Liam Carroll is a daring new voice in Australian fiction, and in my view he fully achieves his aims with his debut. His style is unique and inimitable, and I hope this approach remains undimmed for a while yet. Selfishly speaking, I also hope that this instalment is the first of many more Carollian yarns to come.

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Brian A Modo

I came,

Reviewed in the United States on 24 July 2015

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I saw, I conquered. Slippery is a modern day Caesar, setting his sights on life's big prizes and taking everything he wanted along the way until a twist of fate.

I could complain about Slippery being a bit (!) of an assh*le and maybe painting a too clear of a picture sometimes (I'm all for descriptive language but let the story roll!) - but it really made it all that much more fun.

The same price as that movie on your hotel TV and twice the fun. So get on it!

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amaciver

Crikey what a ride

Reviewed in the United States on 8 August 2015

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Hilarious, shocking and damn interesting. Innocent Sydney sports recovery professional becomes flagrant trader bastard and takes the audience on a whirlwind behind the scenes look into what's behind the curtain!

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A proper, punchy page turner

Reviewed in the United States on 20 June 2015

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You'll be equal parts shocked, offended and cack your pants laughing watching the ever self serving Flynn James try to decide whether full realization is better found by climbing in or out of the guilded cage of money, women and power. Carroll asks the question: is Existentialism best washed down with a Heineken or a Victoria Bitter, or does it not matter as long as someone is giving you a blow job and you're getting really, really pissed?

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Alex

The rollercoaster ride that is commodities trading, the characters, the money and the morality

Reviewed in the United States on 16 June 2015

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What a page turner, a man's journey through the heady world of high finance and commodities trading. As with all great stories it's the characters that make it leap off the page. I found myself rooting for Flynn (our hero) as he navigates a variety of cultural challenges and crashes through corporate barriers like a kid on a bmx while always remaining true to himself. I'm just waiting for a sequel.

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Melanie D

Fantastic read, fast paced

Reviewed in the United States on 27 June 2015

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Fantastic read, fast paced, laugh out loud action as Liam Carroll takes us from the world of physiotherapy treatments to precious metals trading to the expat lifestyle of a commodities trader in Asia. Wolf of Wall Street meets Enron meets "same same but different". Highly recommend it.

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Full throttle

Reviewed in the United States on 12 April 2016

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Crazy. I'll take note now that I'm going Wall St!

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David Stallworthy

Shocking hilarity and full of amusement!

Reviewed in the United States on 16 June 2015

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A non-stop page turner. I downloaded the book for a long plane trip and had the book finished before my bags were packed. Fast paced, easy to read and has both hilarity and shock value on alternating pages....... sometimes on the same page.

I've just bought hard-copies to gift to my colleagues!

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Beautiful

Reviewed in the United States on 9 January 2020

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Must read’!

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Read it!

Reviewed in the United States on 23 July 2015

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A wonderful romp, funny, spirited and anarchic

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Margot Costanzo

I laughed out loud

Reviewed in the United States on 15 June 2015

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This is a lad's story about capitalism on steroids. It makes the world of Gordon Gecko look positively gentlemanly. You won't be able to put it down.

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James

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on 10 August 2016

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An absolute page turner. Couldn't put it down!

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thomas merrett

Cracking read

Reviewed in the United States on 10 July 2015

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If you like all things depraved you will love this

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