The panic of '89 /
Paul Erdman
- 1987, Great Britain.
- 308 pages ; 18 cm.
It's a world where sleep is wasted time, where digital screens are constantly flashing the latest prices and only the quickest lock into the lucrative main chance with a predatory instinct as deadly as the eagle's eye on a silver dollar. It's the whizz-kid world of international high finance where profit and power are the only principles...and wtih the money market on the brink of a massive collapse, the heat is really on! The Swiss, the Russians and the Latin Americans are conspiring to bring the United States' economy to its knees. A combination of ruthless financial machination, searing political power-play and suicidal terrorism is threatining to trigger the greatest economic catastrophe the world has ever known. Across the globe the PANIC of '89 is about to begin...