There’s a good deal to like about Dana Vachon’s “Mergers & Acquisitions”, a sort of 21st-Century blend of Bret Easton Ellis’ and Jay McInerney’s seminal ’80s novels.

One of the more minor touches, but still worthy of notice, are the character names Vachon assigns to a group of haughty Latin American bankers who share an “unfortunate love of monogramming” (meaning pay attention to those initials):

- Manuel Oliveira Rodrigo Orjuela de Navarro

- Héctor Esteban Raúl Padrón Enrique de Stefano

- Carlos Ungaro Núñez de Talarico

- Antonio Suárez Sánchez

Try sporting one of those monograms on your dress-shirt cuffs. Chalk it up to the cultural baggage that comes with the unique paternal-maternal structure of Spanish surnames.