Banker's Holiday - A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity by Gary Clemenceau

From the first puzzling sentence, Banker's Holiday—a euphemism for a federal bank closure—conjures the bleak and humorous world of C. Stillman Fuller, a billionaire financier who suffers a breakdown in a Monday morning meeting. Fuller comes to the disturbing realization that his "brooding, luxurious zombies, otherwise known as senior management" have become just that, and he must escape or become one. Fuller flees the discorporate horror, disguises himself as a janitor, and heads cross-country in an old pick-up, to an odd Shangri-la in Upstate NY. But will he escape the bizarre phantasms that dog him? And can anyone dispel a thousand-foot Nixon?

Banker’s Holiday is a darkly comic collision of corporate horror, hypnotic road novel, and satirical fever dream—a story about money, identity, burnout, and the terrible freedom of walking away from the life everyone else envies. First published more than twenty years ago, cult author Gary Clemenceau’s singular debut now reads less like prophecy than a long-overdue audit of the human soul.

For anyone who has ever suspected that success might be eating them alive.