The mark and the void by Paul Murray

What links the Bank of Torabundo, www.myhotswaitress.com, an art heist, a novel called 'For Love of a Clown', a four-year-old boy named after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an ex-KGB man? You've guessed it. 'The Mark and the Void' is a stirring examination of the deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever written about a financial crisis.