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At bonus time no one can hear you scream by David Charters

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The rules and morale are different during Bonus Time; anything goes as long as it ensures a better bonus than everyone else

Title: At bonus time no one can hear you scream 

Author: David Charters

The story is fast paced, incredibly funny and sometimes probably a bit too honest!

Dave Hart is worried about his annual bonus and we follow him during the last two months leading up to the Big Announcement. During Bonus Time the rules are different and people all behave very differently compared to other times of the year. A deal clinched at this time of year is worth much more, than say a deal in March (which is when Dave Hart last had a deal close). 

Charters gives us an incredible funny insight into what we'd hope are the worst possible personalities and companies occupying the Square Mile (London's financial district). 

Considering that Charters has been working as an investment banker, one wonders how many of his former colleagues recognise themselves or others in Dave Hart and the other characters in the book. 

Books by the author

  • At Bonus Time, No One Can Hear You Scream
  • Trust Me I'm a Banker
  • The Ego Has Landed
  • Where Egos Dare
  • The Ego's Nest 
  • No Tears (short story collection)

At the time of me downloading this book for my Kindle, it was the same price to get the boxset of the first three books as getting only the first book in the series. I may have downloaded the second boxset too....

Boxset 1 / Omnibus I: download from Amazon

Boxset 2 / Omnibus II: download from Amazon


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