Two young managers graduate, with nothing similar in family backgrounds and temperament, join New York international Bank on the same day and take entirely different routes to success. Both rise up the ranks at breakneck speed: fast and aggressive Sandeep, who would stoop to anything to get ahead, and the mature and sensible Swami, with a high regard for good old ethics. The racy narrative, set in the high pressure millieu of competitive banking, em-plots a clash of values in the inter-meshed of realms of the personal and the professional. It is a story peppered with ambition and frustration, deceit and malevolence, love and lust, and the desperate struggle for status and power. And, above all, there is a top-notch banker who plays the benevolent God whenever crisis looms over the young guns. An insider's fictionalized account of how Indian professionals experience the world of foreign banks, the story spans three continents.