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Language
English
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"On an early morning in November, a couple boards a private plane bound for Geneva, flying into a storm. Soon after, it simply drops off the radar, and its wreckage is later uncovered in the Alps. Among the disappeared is Matthew Werner, a banking insider at Swiss United, a powerful offshore bank. His young widow, Annabel, is left grappling with the secrets he left behind, including an encrypted laptop and a shady client list. As she begins a desperate...
3) Quicksand
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The workaholic head of the compliance section of a New York bank flies to Monaco to investigate unusual deposits from an offshore bank and meets a down-on-his-luck international film star who has become embroiled in criminal activities.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The former governor of the Bank of England recounts his country's experiences throughout the Great Recession while outlining a blueprint for recovery-era capitalism that is more resilient to modern boom-and-bust cycles.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Spain is on the brink of economic collapse and European banks demand that any bailout be linked to harsh domestic changes. An alliance of Islamic bankers counters with a rescue package containing no conditions at all. The underlying goal: to break the unity of Europe and put Madrid on the path back to Islamic rule. When the United States stridently opposes that deal, terrorists storm the American consulate in Barcelona and slaughter an entire six-man...
9) Rollover
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Former film star Lee Winters inherits her deceased husband's multimillion dollar company and travels to Saudi Arabia, where she and banking consultant Hubbell Smith discover a plot to destroy the western financial world." --
10) American kleptocracy: how the U.S. created the world's greatest money laundering scheme in history
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, Casey Michel's American Kleptocracy offers the first explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known. "An indefatigable young American journalist who has virtually cornered the international kleptocracy beat on the US end of the black aquifer." -The Los Angeles Review of Books...
