Squeeze Plays by Jeffrey Marshall

An international financial thriller set principally in New York and London, the novel finds a bank CEO and a tabloid publisher at odds over a loan. A Russian oligarch, eager to expand his influence, offers to rescue the publisher. An investigative reporter then probes this financing and delivers a front-page expose that puts the main characters in a negative light. Along the way, there is financial and sexual and an often satirical take on the lives of the well-heeled.