Paul Erdman boeide lezers met zijn romans die zich onderdompelden in de ingewikkelde wereld van internationale financiën. Hij bezat een opmerkelijk vermogen om complexe economische concepten te demystificeren, waardoor onderwerpen als renteswaps toegankelijk en boeiend werden voor een breed publiek. Zijn nauwgezet onderzochte verhalen, vaak gebaseerd op historische financiële gebeurtenissen, boden lezers inzichtelijke verkenningen van monetaire trends. Door zijn heldere proza en diepgaande kennis van de financiële markten vestigde Erdman zich als een toonaangevende stem in zakelijke en financiële fictie.
When the mighty dollar falls, unscrupulous speculators will make a killing - a billion dollar killing. This is the timely story of a dollar devaluation by a former Swiss banker. It lays bare the ruthless world of international finance and the people who control it - in the White House, in the City of London, in the Soviet Union, in the Middle East and in the Mafia.
Money is the deadliest weapon of all...The evidence against him is overwhelming. The prison term he's facing will last the rest of his life. And inside a country built on secrecy, Charles Black, former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, has only one choice. He's about to go on the running for his freedom, and for the truth. Accused of almost half a billion dollars' worth of fraud, Charles Black knows he's innocent-but doesn't know that he's been made a pawn in the ultimate set-up...From the hushed halls of the most secretive institutions in the world-Swiss banks-to the high-risk derivatives market, from the emerald coast of Sardinia to the Alaska wilderness, one man is fighting a labyrinth of danger, money, and power-and against one, unseen enemy who has been pulling all the strings...
In a spellbinding novel as real as today's headlines and as riveting as 'The Crash of '79', Paul Erdman takes the reader into the world of high finance, megabusiness and international politics, in which an American businessman, a big American corporation - and finally America itself - get drawn into the vortex of European diplomacy, high-level corruption and dreams of power, and go down the drain. At the centre of this breathlessly paced story is Frank Rogers, President of a California aerospace company, who makes a last minute dash to Europe to secure a multibillion missile program and finds himself dealing with a twenty million dollar slush fund, a bribery plot involving a Swiss lawyer who plays both ends against the middle, several NATO generals, a Chancellor of Germany and his own chairman of the board. Very soon, Rogers is on the run, a man on everybody's "wanted" list, whose ambition is to reach a country from which he can't be extradited, while his flight sets off a chain of circumstances that can bring to an end the last days of America's position as a major world power.
In Switzerland, in 1945, American Nancy Reichman is assigned to stop the flow of Swiss arms shipments into Nazi Germany and to sabotage the German atomic bomb project. By the author of The Panic of '89.
The Crash of '79 is a book so real that its plot reads like today's headlines. The central figure is that world traveler, playboy, despot, and winter-sports enthusiast His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Iran, whose grandiose and megalomaniacal dreams, nurtured in secret and financed by oil money, engulf the lives of Erdman's characters, each of whom, unknowingly, is contributing to the event that will bring about the Crash of '79 and the demise of the industrial West. Bill Hitchcock, the hero, is a successful banker, divorced skirt-chaser, confirmed cynic and financial genius. It is Hitchcock whom the Saudi Arabians pick to manage their vast hoard of accumulated oil profits and to fire a warning shot across the bows of the Western financial community. And no sooner has Hitchcock sat down at his desk in Riyadh than he learns just how precariously balanced the Western world's financial system really is. Before long Hitchcock is wheeling and dealing at the highest levels of government, while pursuing Ursula Hartmann, beautiful Swiss daughter of one of the world's most distinguished nuclear scientists. Through her he becomes aware that the Saudi's, for all their oil and money, have a problem of their own - the Shah or Iran's ambition to control the entire Middle East and its precious oil...
Wallstreet-Hasardeur William Saxon startet mit schwarzen, in Liechtenstein geparkten Millionen einen Großangriff auf die Deutsche Mark
Mimořádný bestseller z finančního světa. Spekulace burzovních makléřů s kurzy dolaru a zlata se dotýkají samotných základů světového finančního systému. Za každou cenu na nich chtějí vydělat arabští šejkové, ruští komunisté, švýcarští i američtí bankéři. Podaří se jim miliardová tutovka?
Madrid. 20 cm. 299 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Crash of '79. Traducción del inglés Alicia Steimberg. Steimberg, Alicia. 1933-2012 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 8473862104
