Financial Fiction

The terrorist Guy Fowle has escaped from prison. Jude Lyon of MI-6 has been saved from a Syrian ambush by his lover - and enemy? - Julia Ermolaeva. A mysterious Russian has been murdered in London and his thumb cut off. The chancellor of the Exchequer has made an unfortunate social connection at a party, which he hopes he can keep secret. And suddenly, the world is literally going up in flames. Jude needs to start putting together the pieces of this jigsaw and quickly, because someone is putting into play a terrifying Russian plan to disable and destroy the UK.

Discover Financial Fives, the game-changing book that revolutionizes personal finance with its refreshingly engaging approach, providing you with a treasure trove of practical advice, money-saving strategies, and invaluable tips to take control of your financial future.

This financial geopolitical thriller deals with Paul Sense, a portfolio manager entrapped by a rogue CIA agent, looking to destabilize the Islamic Republic of Iran. The unwanted mission takes the hero from London, New York, and Geneva to Dubai. The novel mixes the espionage genre with a financial backdrop and romance with tragic setbacks. Most characters are everyday individuals rising to unwilling hero status for seeking to do the right thing.

This volume explores how financial literacy can enhance peoples' ability to make informed economic choices. It proposes that financial literacy determines how well people make and execute saving, investing, borrowing, and planning decisions. It examines causality using controlled settings to disentangle whether financial literacy causes saving or vice versa, and demonstrates that financial education programs do indeed enhance financial decision-making and asset accumulation.

It's the spring of 2000, and Alex Vane is living the dream. He's brilliant, handsome, driven, and he has just landed his first major reporting job: covering New York's biggest trials for the city's second-biggest daily, The New York Standard. As if his luck couldn't get any better, Alex befriends a top prosecutor who helps him uncover a secret about a legendary defense attorney. When he breaks the story, the trial of the East Coast's most deadly drug kingpin falls into turmoil. But as he digs deeper, the story begins to unravel.

Tom and Annie's kids have grown up, the mortgage is do-able, and they're about to get a gorgeous new, state-of-the-art French stove. Life is good - or so it seems. Beneath the veneer of professional success and domestic security, their marriage is crumbling, eaten away by years of resentment, loneliness, and the fall out from the estrangement of their daughter, and they've settled into simply being two strangers living under the same roof. Until the economy falls apart....

This fourth Wall-Street mystery starring John Putnam Thatcher by Emma Lathen focuses on the car industry, the anti-trust department, and IPOs.

It's been five weeks since the coronal mass ejection wiped out the power grid, and Cole's town is beginning to see what it's like to witness depletion of food and water. When nearly twenty-five hundred violent offenders break out of a nearby prison, things only get worse. The world is in a state of pandemonium, and the townspeople are getting increasingly desperate for supplies, even resorting to threatening each other. Cole knows that the town's best chance for survival depends on their ability to work together. But in a world where no one trusts each other, it becomes a lone struggle for ...

Struggling to find resources that truly cater to your 10-year-old's learning style? Frustrated with the lack of accessible resources for teaching your child about money? Look no further! Age is just a number when it comes to financial wisdom! Our book is designed with simple analogies that make complex terms a breeze for even 10-year-olds. Watch your child effortlessly understand and navigate the world of money with confidence!

Is there really a global financial ruler? One that dictates policy to the central banks of the world? Is there a central bank of central banks that is senior to the US Federal Reserve Bank, the Bank of England, and the other national banks that control interest rates, inflation, deflation, prosperity, and depression? Such a bank not only exists, but John Truman Wolfe exposed this heretofore unseen hand in the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and their plans for the next one. No "conspiracy theorist", Wolfe names names, dates, places, and actions.

Zachary Blake returns. And who stands between his client and justice? The President of the United States! In this second heart-stopping installment of the Zachary Blake legal thriller series, Zack is fresh off his epic legal battle with the church’s clandestine evil forces in Betrayal of Faith. If you enjoyed the political angst of All the President’s Men or the realistic courtroom scenes of The Verdict, you will love this political-legal action thriller, where super trial lawyer Zack Blake takes on new, even more powerful foes.

Wall Street and the Black world are agitated by a distinguished Atlanta Black banker being proposed for a seat on the Exchange. Much turmoil about those issues, though the issue, comes back to money, which John Putnam Thatcher is expert at. The usual cast of characters at the Sloan, and elsewhere on Wall Street, show up and participate.

An Ex-Cop Who Lost Everything. A Killer Who Will Stop At Nothing. In the exclusive enclave of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a woman who builds custom guitars is murdered. A disgraced ex-cop turned private investigator is hired by the dead woman's father and immediately becomes the target of a violent ex-convict. An enigmatic music star performs damage control on her links to the dead woman. And a professional killer who idolizes Keith Richards is brought into town by a mysterious employer. Dead Wood is what great mysteries are all about: love, hate, faith and vengeance, all wrapped up in an ...

Endlich auch als Hörbuch verfügbar: der große Debütroman von Jeffrey Archer. Harvey Metcalfe ist hochintelligent, reich – und ein Betrüger. Sein jüngster Coup: Mit leeren Versprechungen und vorgetäuschten Geschäften hat er vier wohlhabende Männer über Nacht um ihr Vermögen gebracht. Doch diesmal hat er sich die Falschen ausgesucht. Seine Opfer haben sich verbündet, um Metcalfe mit seinen eigenen Waffen zu schlagen. Gemeinsam wollen sie ihn exakt um den Betrag erleichtern, den sie zuvor verloren haben: eine Millionen US-Dollar. Ein gewagtes Spiel beginnt.

Research shows that money habits are set by age seven, yet this important topic is often neglected. The Moneytopia series is designed to help teach invaluable money habits and concepts in easy-to-understand, child-friendly terms. This fun story follows along with a bunny, a bear, and a fox as they’re given a school assignment to earn “Topians”, the book’s fun term for money. Your child will learn the three key elements to earning money—a lesson that’ll last a lifetime.

This book tackles the concept of saving money to start children on the path to a bright financial future. Research shows that money habits are set by age seven, yet this important topic is often neglected. The Moneytopia series is designed to help teach invaluable money habits and concepts in easy-to-understand, child-friendly terms. This fun story follows along with a bunny, a bear, and a fox as they’re given a school assignment to save “Topians”, the book’s fun term for money. Your child will learn the three key elements to saving money—a lesson that’ll last a lifetime.

“Fast-paced, original, engaging…” New York Times bestselling author Thomas Perry Private Investigator John Rockne is determined to find out who is responsible for the brutal murder of a young man in Grosse Pointe. A contract killer known only as The Spook wants to keep the truth buried forever. Rockne quickly uncovers a series of dark secrets with ties to his own tortured past. HARD ROCK is a thrilling conclusion to the bestselling crime novel DEAD WOOD. “The first private eye novel in a long time that just swept me along for the ride.” Edgar-nominated author Craig McDonald

IT WAS A SIMPLE INSURANCE INVESTIGATION -- UNTIL THE LIES AND BODIES STARTED PILING UP! Alton Rhode starts out in a Northern nursing home and winds up in a Southern town, where a military academy may be more soiled than local Civil War statues covered in bird droppings. He uncovers a twisty financial conspiracy involving radioactive isotopes, sex, and murder. "ALTON RHODE MYSTERIES ARE IN A CLASS BY THEMSELVES.” (John Crudele, New York Post); “A LAWRENCE DE MARIA TITLE GIVES YOU MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK THAN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING IN THE BOOK MARKETPLACE TODAY.” (Florida Weekly); “A ...

In the beginning was Jacqueline, and crossings on the Star Ferry with warm Hong Kong breezes blowing strands of long, black hair across her face as her eyes gazed into his. When investment banker Alexander “Dusty” Street returns to Hong Kong 20 years later, everybody wants him to save a huge acquisition, stabilize panicking financial markets, and return home to New York. The choice is obvious, until the love of his life reappears.

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.