Financial Crime

Discover this captivating and deeply moving mystery series that will take you around the world and keep you up all night. Hackers are poised ...to take over the Internet.When young FBI special agent Jake Maguire is called to investigate a brutal murder on a Virginia bike path, he never expects the case to take him on a wild ride across the globe. But as he delves deeper into the crime, he realizes it's not just a simple murder - it's an international case of cyber crime, with a trail leading all the way to China. To help him navigate the complexities of the case, Jake teams up with an ...

Samanta Rutgers is at rock bottom. Her direct marketing business, selling kitchen appliances at rural Austrian restaurants, is failing, and the financial aftermath of her bitter divorce has left her drowning in debt. Struggling to make ends meet, Samanta’s life takes a dramatic turn after an unexpected encounter with the suave and mysterious Dr. Josef Berger. After spending a night together, Josef introduces her to what seems like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: an exclusive investment scheme called Global Exclusive Trust (GET), where digital currency-backed investment letters promise ...

Finance professor Kate Adams is reeling. After her husband’s unexplained death, she runs away to the remote Alaskan wilderness to catch her breath, get back on her feet, and complete her research sabbatical in peace. But even at the ends of the earth, Kate can’t shake one nagging question: What was her husband working on before he died? As Kate continues her research into unusual financial phenomena across the globe, a picture slowly starts to emerge, and suddenly, her husband’s death doesn’t look so accidental. Together, Kate and Brad, a former flame and CIA officer, dig deeper ...

A dictator hides his nation’s wealth ...and people will kill to find it. This “great, fast read” by acclaimed mystery author Fritz Galt will keep you captivated as you follow a trail of bodies and money from California to Malta. Young banker Johnny Blade must crack open the secret back doors of private banking for high net-worth individuals to find a brutal dictator’s money. But when he and a young woman he befriends are stalked mercilessly through the forests, cities and beaches of Europe, he reaches his wits’ end. This book’s dime novel feel and savvy world view will take you ...

In 2018, Emily Flitter received a tip that Morgan Stanley had fired a Black employee without cause. Flitter had been searching for a way to investigate the deep-rooted racism in the American financial industry, and that one tip lit the sparkplug for a three-year journey through the shocking yet normalized corruption in our financial institutions. Examining local insurance agencies and corporate titans like JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock, and Wells Fargo and reveals the practices that have kept the racial wealth gap practically as wide as it was during the Jim Crow era.

Solo hay luz de luna por encima.... Grita todo lo que quieras... Aún así terminarás muerto. Smash Hit es a la vez un homenaje respetuoso, pero algo propio, nacido en las tradiciones de clásicos programas de terror llenos de horripilantes asesinatos y una mente retorcida y anormal tramando toda la horrenda cabalgata. Una historia tensa e impartida sobre el asesinato, los juegos mentales y la obsesión con las realidades macabras de la película, que también ofrece una variación única de las fórmulas del género, ya probadas y gastadas. Un lunático está en la hierba. Podría estar ...

El antiguo pájaro de la muerte El fotógrafo de vida silvestre Sam Daniels tiene un trabajo de ensueño: viaja a lugares exóticos y toma fotos de animales increíblemente hermosos para que todos los puedan ver. Sin embargo, durante un viaje a la jungla amazónica a la que viajó por ese motivo, Sam y su guía se encuentran con un pájaro diferente a cualquiera que hayan visto antes, completamente hermoso e hipnotizante. Se las arregla para conseguir algunas fotos, pero no antes de que la extraña criatura asesine a su guía y salga volando, gritando. Petrificado y traumatizado, Sam ...

The Sins of the Father When Rayna and her boss attend an exclusive political fundraising, they witness the assassination of the candidate’s wife by masked thugs. Rayna gives chase and narrowly escapes death when their fleeing SUV suddenly and inexplicably blows up. Were the murderers terrorists? Hired killers? Political extremists? As she and her organized vigilante organization dig deeper, they discover that that the rally was the final piece in the puzzle to finance a plot to blow up an abandoned nuclear reactor. The candidate himself and his best friend are the pained masterminds. ...

After barely avoiding becoming a casualty of his boss’s financial fraud at National Airlines and the break-up of his second marriage, Lonny Jones passes on a promotion to Vice President and relocates to Austin, where he’d attended college twenty years ago, to recharge and figure out his future. By chance, he rents a house owned by a politically active couple and is unwittingly drawn into a down-and-dirty mayoral primary election campaign where the powerful, charming and corrupt mayor uses his office to dispense favors to developers. The challenger is an upstart political novice with an ...

They’d prepared for this moment all their lives without believing anything would ever come of it...they were wrong. Danae knew before she ever heard her brother’s voice that it was bad...and it didn’t take long to find out just how bad it was. She’d always understood the high cost of secrets...and quickly learned that sometimes the price of truths was far more costly. It took her even less time to realize that she’d never really known true fear. She did now and knew that the heart-pounding terror she’d experienced in those handful of moments when a gun was pointed at her brother...

Jimmy Smith has been immersed in violence since he was 17 when his beloved missionary mother was murdered in Cameroon by a roving gang from the Congo. For the next few years Jimmy hunted down the renegades and exterminated hundreds of them while earning the feared title "White Death." Jimmy later came to a tiny village in Mexico where he was forced to kill four cartel recruiters who came looking for young girls to abduct into the sex trade in the USA. Jimmy sneaks into America where circumstances put him in the path of a Peruvian gang operating in Louisiana. This is Jimmy's harrowing story ...

Illicit Financial Flows & Worldwide Money Laundering Practices will help guide and protect your business from illegal activities by teaching you how to intervene before they can happen. You have probably read online or seen news reports about white and blue-collar crimes, corporate crimes, or anti-money laundering practices. and wish to learn more about what they mean and how to protect your business from similar illegal activities.

While trying to complete a top-secret corporate acquisition project at National Airlines, Lonny Jones’ life is turned upside down as sensitive negotiating information is leaked to the competition and his boss begins to exhibit questionable behavior. Lonny’s life is further complicated by his former best friend, Jack Heygood, who parlays the promise of testimony in the retrial of a Tropical Investment, Inc. kingpin — previously convicted of orchestrating a Ponzi scheme — into release from prison. Once on the loose, Jack’s suspicious business dealings wind through Dallas, the ...

Seven years after a financial crisis nearly topples America, traders chafe at government regulations on Wall Street, racial tensions are rising, and corrupt financiers make backdoor deals with politicians.... 1799 was a hell of a year. When young lawyer Justy Flanagan returns to prove his father's innocence, he exposes a massive fraud that has already claimed lives, and one the perpetrators are determined to keep secret at any cost.

At the height of the roaring 20s, Swedish émigré Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression. Yet after Kreuger's suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged.

Become an elite sales professional by learning proven lessons from the warriors who set the global standard for operational excellence: the American military elite. Drawing on exclusive interviews with former members of the US Special Forces and leading sales professionals from a variety of industries, executive coach Bill Hart shows you how to develop the mindset, habits, and disciplines to elevate your sales performance to become the elite of your industry.

Manhattan. FBI Special Agent Silver Cassidy, the head of a task force that's on a collision course with disaster, finds herself fighting impossible odds to stop a serial killer before he can kill again. Struggling to balance the hunt for a savage predator with the challenges of being a single mom, Silver finds herself thrust into a nightmare of brutality that will demand every ounce of determination she possesses to survive. ----- Q&A with Russell Blake Q: Silver Justice is a departure from your usual action/adventure thrillers. Why a police procedural/serial killer epic featuring a female ...

A rollicking good mystery and witty tale of an international finance, Wall Street, money markets, espionage, kidnapping, bankers on the run, archeology, and far more.

Angel or assassin? Tall, blond, and effortlessly elegant, Helen has the world at her fingertips. Literally. One wrong move, one mistyped key, and millions of lives could be at stake. Collin Frey tracks her every step, uncertain whether she’s destined to save the world…or shatter it. He reaches out to her, but Helen trusts no one. Deep undercover, she discovered a conspiracy so lethal it threatens to destroy the world as we know it. Danger lurks behind every corner, and anyone could be compromised. Time is running out. Neither Helen nor Collin can avert the disaster alone—but a secret ...

Winner of the 2020 Electric Eclectic Novella Prize Lauren West and Ben Hughes are saving frantically for their forthcoming marriage and mortgage deposit. When Lauren sees an advert online from a firm of brokers extolling the profits to be gained by buying and selling Bitcoins, she is interested enough to pursue it further. Lauren clicks on the advert. She is soon contacted by Paul Cash, a knowledgeable stockbroker whom Lauren trusts straight away. He is affable, plausible, and seemingly genuinely interested in her welfare. Lauren looks forward to making enough money to be able to surprise ...