A rising star at one of the world's preeminent investment banks explicitly recounts his power hungry and sex crazed youth in this satirical "Portrait of the Asshole as a Young Man." Frank Parker's quest for success begins with childhood dreams of playing in the NFL, takes him through the Seattle music scene during college years otherwise spent in an elite fraternity, and ends where the novel begins, on Wall Street, with episodes relating back to banking principles throughout. In ALPHA, A.D. Aliwat offers a mesmerizing look inside the mind of a predator as pitiable as he is terrifying and a critical examination of what it takes to really make it in America.