The Moroccan Girl,by Charles Cumming,is a good read.
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The Moroccan Girl,by Charles Cumming,is a good read.
Just read two great reads.
Author John Lawton I have really enjoyed over the years.His latest "Hammer to Fall" is a cracker.Could not put it down, so read it too quickly.
Ian Rankin has a new book coming out on 29th September, called "A Song for the Dark Times." I was very lucky to get to borrow an advance "reading" copy.
Even in retirement Rebus is a great character.A good read.
Well I have been on Iceland reading and watching lately.
First of all following on You Tube "Itchy Boots", travel from Denmark to Iceland via Faroe Islands, and then tripping around Iceland on her motorcycle.
Then to round it off I really enjoyed "Gallows Rock" by YRSA Sigurdardottir isbn 978-1-473-69340-1.Best murder mystery I have read for awhile.
In the series "Itchy Boots" Patagonia to Alaska [series 2 ]the scenery in Argentina,Patagonia and Chile was outstanding.The glaziers were stunning.
Iceland starts via Faroe Islands Itchy Boots Series 3 eps 5.
I like her as she is game,sensible and well organised.Always interesting.
Just read a cracker book.
A Killing in November,bySimon Mason.
Great thread to revive.
A good book recommendation never goes astray.....
Not read anything worth recommending of late. Got a box full to work through from the local Rotary club book sale. I'm sure I bought books I've read before....:confused:
I am told people buy books at the Rotary sales,read them, then donate them back to Rotary.
Therefore should you miss a good read this year it will turn up next year..
PS.Go to Wanaka library and ask for either Sue [the boss] or Deidre, and tell them I recommended "A Killer in November" by Simon Mason.
I found The Chancellor,
The remarkable odyssey of Angela Merkel, by Kati Marton a very good read.
Just read another good read;
Dark Towers
Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and An Epic Trail of Destruction
Enrich, David, 1979-
(1 rating)
Book, 2020
eBook
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In Dark Towers, award-winning journalist David Enrich reveals the truth about Deutsche Bank and its epic path of devastation. Tracing the bank's history back to its propping up of a default-prone American developer in the 1880s, helping the Nazis build Auschwitz, and wooing Eastern Bloc authoritarians, he shows how in the 1990s, via a succession of hard-charging executives, Deutsche made a fateful decision to pursue Wall Street riches, often at the expense of ethics and the law. Soon, the bank was manipulating markets, violating international sanctions to aid terrorist regimes, scamming investors, defrauding regulators, and laundering money for Russian oligarchs. Ever desperate for an American foothold, Deutsche also started doing business with a self-promoting real estate magnate nearly every other bank in the world deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next twenty years, Deutsche executives loaned billions to Trump, the Kushner family, and an array of scandal-tarred clients, including convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Dark Towers is the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality, the corporate equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction. It is also the story of a man who was consumed by fear of what he'd seen at the bank and his son's obsessive search for the secrets he kept.Read le
"Red Notice", true story about how Putin stole all of the money in Russia and gave it to his mates after the deregulation of the Russian economy, reads like a novel. ***** a 5 star read !
Agree a great read.:
Red Notice
How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy
Browder, Bill, 1964-
(6 ratings)
Book, 2015
November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes paid to the state by one of the world's most successful hedge funds. Magnitsky's brutal killing has remained uninvestigated and unpunished to this day. His farcical posthumous show-trial brought Putin's regime to a new low in the eyes of the international community. Red Notice is a searing expose of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Magnitsky's imprisonment and murder, slicing deep into the shadowy heart of the Kremlin to uncover its sordid truths. Bill Browder, the hedge fund manager who employed Magnitsky, takes us on his explosive journey from the heady world of finance in New York and London in the 1990s, through his battles with ruthless oligarchs in the turbulent landscape of post-Soviet Union Moscow, to his expulsion from Russia on Putin's orders. Browder's graphic portrait of the Russian government as a criminal enterprise wielding all the power of a sovereign state illuminates his personal transformation from financier to human rights activist, campaigning for justice for his late lawyer and friend. With fraud, bribery, corruption and torture exposed at every turn, Red Notice is a shocking but true political roller-coaster that plays out in the highest echelons of Western power.Read less