When Nick de Carteret meets Tselmeg Yusupov he doesn't know whether to love or hate the Oligarch (soon-to-be President) from Kuikbakhistan. All Nick does know, with the visceral certainty of an abused child desperate for validation, is that he needs to be the best - and rich. Born in the gutter and driven to succeed, Nick left home as a teenager and began the single-minded, uncompromising pursuit of anything and everything...