GLG, as Josh calls it, is what he believes to be the overriding human condition. Here’s ann extract from a previous draft. The scene was extracted from the recruitment scene with Cassis in Bermuda:

The wine waiter arrives filled with the importance of opening some of the cellar’s rarest bottles. He extracts the cork and places it in front of me. I pick it up, sniff and compare the cork’s printing to the bottle’s. In response to Cassius’s quizzical look I say, “The cork is given to you to smell, to ensure that it was airtight and that the wine is not off.”
“I know about sniffing the cork,” he growls. “What’s with its label?”
“Part of your due diligence, is to check that no unscrupulous restaurateur has opened the bottle, drunk its nectar and replaced it with plonk. It’s the old story of GLG.”
“GLG?”
“Greed, Lust and Gluttony. The old ones thought there were seven Deadly Sins, but the way I see it, most of our actions are sparked with at least one and usually all three of GLG.”
Cassius smiles. “Strange, that. I pictured you as a tree-hugger.” He shrugs. “But I see you’re more of a moneyman. Like myself.”

So here we are in October 2008 and GLG has been reigning supreme in finacial institutions for so long that we’ve all forgotten that it’s not supposed to work like this. In a very real way, I wrote this book to vent my feelings about the way modern man seems to operate in this vein, 24/7. A shame, really, as there are a bunch of really nice people among the bad apples, aren’t there?