In late 1989, as the Eastern Bloc collapses and money begins moving across borders as never before, a young banker and a small-time hustler fall in love in the most discreet city in the world -- and decide that love alone is not enough. Svetlana is a brilliant, ambitious analyst on the rise at a private bank in Geneva. Aldo is a tennis coach whose real trade is best left unexamined. Attraction becomes partnership, then appetite: for money, power, and the recognition money is supposed to buy. Inspired by a real Geneva embezzlement case and a real 1990 bank heist, Consumed follows two lovers who help themselves to the fortunes flowing through the city's banks -- a "Genevan Bonnie and Clyde," as one French critic called them. Prize-winning and internationally acclaimed, Joseph Incardona channels the savage wit of Martin Amis's Money and the cool dread of DeLillo's White Noise into a modern tragedy about a world where everything, and everyone, has a price. In the world of finance, love has never been a safe-haven currency.