Simon Carroll

Don Simon Simon Carroll

Simon, a self-described "mild mannered banker", has founded himself banged up behind bars. A seemingly unassuming Client Investment Manager, Simon's day to day for the most part before his sentence revolved around helping the rich keep their wealth, even if that meant a little bit of fraudulent tax avoidance here and there. But trading the flash suits and phony smiles of the banking business in for the traumatically thin walls of an underfunded prison cell, Simon's new occupation has him completely out of his depth, but strangely enough he finds himself acclimatising to his new environment surprisingly well. Told through intimate flashbacks detailing how Simon managed to get himself in this situation in the first place, the banker's unlikely foray into the criminal underworld is a far cry from what he expected. Detailing the character's downfall in the run up to his stint in prison, the unlucky Simon is put through the ringer as he stumbles through encounters with everyone from high profile businessmen to low-level druggies. Full of dishonourable rogues, a good dose of backstabbing and some biting satirical social commentary for good measure, this unlikely criminal tale is brilliantly brought to life in the pages of Simon Carroll's new novel, Don Simon. Told from the perspective of the titular con, the stakes continue to grow as the situations the former banker finds himself in get more and more out of hand, with Simon's view of the world becoming just as twisted and warped as the people on both sides of the law that he has to deal with.