Financial Mystery

With debt-burdened governments and businesses worldwide about to go bust, a cabal of Wall Street big shots plot to destroy the globe’s stock exchanges. In 24 hours, a powerful computer worm will smash the exchanges and spark an international panic, pushing a debt-laden world into the abyss. But one person, who works for their bank as a computer expert, spots the worm embedded deep in its network. Cassy Levin invents a program to destroy the cyber-intruder. Angered by Cassy’s discovery, her bosses order her kidnapping.

Young, bright and sexy, Carla Vitale has been handpicked to run Supertech, Africa’s leading independent engineering firm. Then one Friday afternoon in Cape Town, her dream is shattered. Her boss and mentor, Nial Townley, disappears, his luxury vehicle is found in a crevice at the bottom of Chapman’s Peak and $USD 20m is missing from the Supertech’s overseas accounts. Three months later and the police are no closer to solving the riddle. No job, no car, no phone, Carla turns to the one person she believes can help: software hacker turned day-trader, Daniel Le Fleur.

Someone is siphoning funds from billionaire Zachary Barron's currency hedge fund. Intent on prosecuting the thief to the fullest extent of the law, he hires Katerina "Kat" Carter, the best forensic accountant in the business, to follow the money trail. Both are shocked when it leads to Zachary's father, Nathan. And he's just the tip of the iceberg. Nathan belongs to a shadowy organization with global ties and unimaginable resources.

A story of crooked bankers, sexy criminals, financial fraud, lies, deception, and murder. And fishing. 

Amid a wave of unprecedented terrorist attacks on American soil, a panicked and inexperienced president declares a state of emergency and hands over control of the country to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The quiet and unassuming Administrator Hall soon becomes the most powerful man in America. Determined to stop the attacks, Hall enforces his order across the US, using a newly empowered State Guard to deal with anyone who gets in his way.

Brewing Up a Storm: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the 23rd of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers and features John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. A brewery introduces a non-alcoholic beer that stirs up trouble with a lobbying group that believe this will lead children to drink beer as minors. Congressional hearings, congressmen, lobbyists, a lawsuit, a riot, and more create wonderful goings-on for listeners with John Putnam Thatcher identifying the murderer.

Death Shall Overcome: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the fifth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers, featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. A rollicking and witty adventure about a Wall Street brokerage firm that puts up its first Black partner for the first seat on the New York Stock Exchange to be held by a Black American. Fascinating, witty, humorous, with the elegant light touch of Emma Lathen.

This is the first of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers. The Sloan receives a request for an advance against a trust that does not permit it. John Putnam Thatcher gets involved by one heir, Arthur Schneider, President of Schneider Manufacturing, and grandson of the founder who left a trust for his grandchildren upon the death of all of their parents. The last parent is about to die from natural causes. One heir is missing and Thatcher, Trinkam, and Nicholls, all Emma Lathen regulars, work to find the missing heir. Soon they learn a murder is involved....

This is the third of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers, featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust, who gets to the bottom of things by cutting through various business goings-on. He's a famous accountant who swoops down on a company to examine the books, dissident shareholders, community groups, and others to examine the financial motives in order to nail the killer. A humorous romp for those who like humor and good writing in their mysteries.

Wall Street banker John Thatcher is drawn into this mystery as a financial man seeking to get his president through a sticky divorce regarding his sister, with money being the motive for the murder.

A mysterious plum account leads to former Army Ranger and current investment broker Lou Christopher being recruited to resurrect his military skills under a threat of losing everything he has. Colonel Christopher has to summon all of his Ranger skills to cope with this danger, and discovers a source of strength he hadn't counted on before: his wife, who matches his adroitness in planning and evading discovery when the chips are down, and outwits all those foolish enough to underestimate her.

Wall Street banker John Thatcher is drawn into this mystery as a financial man seeking to get his bank repaid. Thatcher gets involved to try to recover a loan/debenture done by the Sloan's incompetent investment manager on the way out.

It's one year after the 9/11 attacks, and court reporter Alex Vane is fighting to break into the flashy world of TV news. But when he uncovers the scoop of a lifetime, his tightly controlled world is rocked: His editor buries his story, a source turns up dead, and Alex finds himself at the center of a violent media conspiracy. As he receives tips from a mysterious source, Alex enlists the help of a captivating professor, Camila Gray.

The world is on the brink of economic collapse. Tom is an unhappily married journalist from London, seeking to advance his career. Sally is single, ambitious and independent, visiting from Australia. They're both chasing the same story. After several incidents rock the Royal National Bank to its core, its share price tumbles and world stock markets begin to ripple. International economic stability is at risk. Timing and diversity of the events makes it impossible for them to be coincidence or incompetence.

"Die Filiale" ist der erste Band von Veit Etzolds großer Thriller-Reihe um Laura Jacobs, die als richtige Frau im falschen Job in einen mörderischen Finanzskandal verwickelt wird. Laura Jacobs kann es kaum glauben, als sie den Brief ihres Arbeitgebers öffnet: Eben noch hat sie bei einem Banküberfall auf ihre Filiale ein Blutbad verhindert – jetzt hält sie die Kündigung für den Mietvertrag ihres Zuhauses in der Hand! Die Bank, der neben Lauras Haus eine ganze Reihe von Immobilien in Berlin gehört, will die Grundstücke an einen Investor verkaufen.

Manche Geschichten kann nur das echte Leben schreiben. Und so scheint "CLUB DEAL" als Kombination aus Finanz- und Ökothriller, gepaart mit Zukunftsvisionen und gespickt mit Liebe und Sex, eine Fiktion. Ist es aber nicht! Die Rivalität zweier Männer, die durch ihre unterschiedlichen Funktionen auf verschiedenen Seiten derselben Bank - dem ehrwürdigen Bankhaus Delius & Co. - stehen, ist echt.

Der große Crash - wer kann ihm entkommen? Die Weltwirtschaft schlittert in die Krise. Eine Gruppe Investoren rund um den Finanzmagnaten Francis Forsythe attackiert die angeschlagenen Notenbanken, um Bitcoin als neue Leitwährung durchzusetzen. Doch die alten Mächte wehren sich mit allen Mitteln. Eine entscheidende Rolle für den Ausgang des Konflikts kommt Satoshi Nakamoto zu, dem Erfinder der Digitalwährung, dessen Identität noch immer ein Geheimnis ist. Als der Journalist, Buchautor und Privatanleger Martin Freeman ihm durch einen Zufall auf die Spur kommt, hat das unvorhergesehene Konsequenzen.

In the shady world of investing, Kyle Carlisle finds himself in a rather mundane spot of mostly dealing with newbies who like to break the rules. That's all about to change when the job of his dreams comes his way. GenX, a biotech firm that specializes in virus and vaccine research, also mines its own cryptocurrency RedKoin. Amy Pandemos is its young and beautiful CEO, who tracks down Kyle to have him run the crypto operation.

Unlike many of the people in their compound, Shane, Julianna, and Cole are still alive. However, their trial by fire is far from over. The replacement currency has failed and America is crumbling from within. Roving gangs scour the country, preying on small towns which are too weak and unprepared to fend off their carnivorous attacks. When one such band of ruffians show up in Sylva, NC, Shane and Julianna will have to strike a decisive blow before they are subjugated into slavery. A spark has found a bed of tinder. The inferno of chaos may never stop burning.

Jeden milion dolarů - přesně tolik získal Harvey Metclafe, celoživotní král pochybných obchodů, z prázdných slibů ropného naleziště a akciových čachrů. Čtyři muži – syn z hraběcího rodu, doktor z Harley Street, majitel galerie na Bond Street a oxfordský don – se přes noc stanou téměř žebráky. Tentokrát ale Harvey obral špatné muže. Spojí totiž své síly a sledují ho v kasinech Monte Carla, luxusních lóžích v Ascotu i na posvátných pozemcích Oxfordské univerzity.