The Best of Alex 2004

by Charles Peattie (Author), Charles Peattie (Author), Russell F. Taylor (Author)

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  2004

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  Alex's agony continues. Having been ruthlessly downsized from his beloved job in the City last year Alex finds himself still out of work. He explores a number of unsuccessful career avenues (headhunting, working in industry) and his colleague Clive is forced to undergo a disastrous spell as a Financial PR man. Finally comes the ultimate indignity when Alex has to withdraw his son Christopher from his exclusive private school. Will Alex and Clive manage to find gainful employment again before their high-maintenance wives divorce them? This latest collection of cartoons from the business pages of the Daily Telegraph will strike a chord with anyone in the financial community who has entertained the fear (or indeed reality) of unemployment as well as appealing to hardened Telegraph readers in the Shires.

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  2006

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  It's been a dramatic year at international investment bank Megabank, as detailed on the business pages of the Daily Telegraph . The wet and generally hopeless Clive's unlikely tenure as head of department comes to a predictable end and he is moved sideways to head up the non-existent department of Client Focus Liaison. Before too long, he finds himself once again out in the cold as he and Alex take a Christmas trip to the Land of Narnia. As bonus time comes round, Alex will stop at nothing to enhance his prospects: even to the extent of embarking on an affair with a female client. However, to his dismay, his new boss proves to be a workaholic and frankly, quite mad American. This title features all this plus a celebrity cameo from Prince William as Megabank's work experience summer intern.