Author : David Ignatius
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393240487
"Sizzling…engrossing all the way." —Los Angeles Times Book Review Hit men stalk computer analyst Lina Alwen and financial investigator Sam Hoffman in pursuit of the knowledge the pair may have regarding a late Iraqi dictator’s billions. From London to Switzerland, and from Baghdad to the mysterious corners of the just-budding Internet, this spy thriller covers the map to uncover a world of corruption.
Author : Robert Lynn Fuller
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,18 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0786486856
In March 1933, in one of his first acts as president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared a bank holiday throughout the United States. Considered by many to be a bold step to curb the mounting bank crisis, the decree closed banks in all 48 states and overseas territories, putting money out of reach of citizens, businesses and all levels of government. This narrative history recounts and explains the economic, financial and political backgrounds of the banking panic, arguing that the holiday was not only unnecessary but actually damaging to the economy. The holiday did, however, provide Roosevelt with the momentum to push through a series of historic reforms that remade the federal government. This revisionist work not only reveals the circumstances around the panic but debunks numerous myths that have clung to it ever since.
Author : Peg Kehret
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 35,81 MB
Release : 1994-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101661720
T.J., forced to make a perilous midnight ride with a dangerous criminal, relies on his ingenuity to attempt an escape so that he can rescue Alzheimer's-stricken Grandma Ruth. By the author of Nightmare Mountain.
Author : Alexis Stenfors
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,68 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1783609311
The LIBOR affair has been described as the ‘biggest banking scandal in history’, a deception affecting not only banks but also corporations, pension funds and ordinary people. But was this just the tip of the iceberg? Was the scandal the work of a few ‘bad apples’ or an inevitable result of a financial system rotten to its core? Labelled ‘one of the world's most infamous rogue traders’ in the wake of a mis-marking scandal, Alexis Stenfors went on to rebuild his life and now guides us through the shadowy world of modern banking, providing an insider’s account of the secret practices – including the manipulation of foreign exchange rates – which have allowed banks to profit from systematic deception. Containing remarkable and often shocking insights derived from his own experiences in the dealing room, as well as his spectacular fall from grace at Merrill Lynch, Barometer of Fear draws back the curtain to a realm that for too long has remained hidden from public view.
Author : Rhonda B. Saunders
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780425223710
A California prosecutor and leading authority on the crime of stalking draws on key experiences from her own career to provide a revealing look at the nature of the crime, the underappreciated dangers of stalking, the behavior and characteristics of stalkers, and the legal weapons she has developed to battle stalking and protect victims.
Author : Robert Harris
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307957950
At the nexus of high finance and sophisticated computer programming, a terrifying future may be unfolding even now. Dr. Alex Hoffmann’s name is carefully guarded from the general public, but within the secretive inner circles of the ultrarich he is a legend. He has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But one morning before dawn, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside mansion, and so begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence as Hoffmann attempts, with increasing desperation, to discover who is trying to destroy him. Fiendishly smart and suspenseful, The Fear Index gives us a searing glimpse into an all-too-recognizable world of greed and panic. It is a novel that forces us to confront the question of what it means to be human—and it is Robert Harris’s most spellbinding and audacious novel to date.
Author : Robert Tanenbaum
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1476793220
When a cop shoots down the son of a respected inner-city Baptist preacher, the community rises up in anger and demands to have the officer prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But there's something more than a call for justice at work here: a plot to bring down the city's police force through a conspiracy so vast and malicious only Butch Karp and his band of truth-seekers can untangle it. Now Karp and his wife Marlene Ciampi must stop a radical organization of armed militants bent on the cold-blooded murder of uniformed on-duty police officers.
Author : Joe Urschel
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250020808
It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines in pursuit and no national police force, safety for kidnappers is just a short trip on back roads they know well from their bootlegging days. Gangster George "Machine Gun" Kelly and his wife, Kathryn, are some of the most celebrated criminals of the Great Depression. With gin-running operations facing extinction and bank vaults with dwindling stores of cash, Kelly sets his sights on the easy-money racket of kidnapping. His target: rich oilman, Charles Urschel. Enter J. Edgar Hoover, a desperate Justice Department bureaucrat who badly needs a successful prosecution to impress the new administration and save his job. Hoover's agents are given the sole authority to chase kidnappers across state lines and when Kelly bungles the snatch job, Hoover senses his big opportunity. What follows is a thrilling 20,000 mile chase over the back roads of Depression-era America, crossing 16 state lines, and generating headlines across America along the way--a historical mystery/thriller for the ages. Joe Urschel's The Year of Fear is a thrilling true crime story of gangsters and lawmen and how an obscure federal bureaucrat used this now legendary kidnapping case to launch the FBI.
Author : Linwood Barclay
Publisher : Random House LLC
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Fathers and daughters
ISBN : 0385668023
Seventeen-year-old Sydney Blake is spending the summer with her father and working part-time at a local hotel. When she doesn't come home from her shift one night, her father Tim goes to the hotel, only to have the manager claim that Sydney has never worked there. When he searches for clues and leads from his daughter's friends, the death threats start to arrive.
Author : Charlie Higson
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1423174666
The sickness infected everyone sixteen and over, and no one escaped its terror. Now kids all over London are forming alliegances and battling grown-ups in order to survive. But who is a friend and who is an enemy?
