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Goldbug; Teg's Last Case

By: Robert Andre
Narrated by: Andre Clark
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Join quirky detective Teg Warner as he pits his wits against Nazi turned Stasi, Rosemeyer. Luckily for Teg he’s finally joined forces with übermensch Kat “who better to be overman than a woman?” And given that MI5 are also involved, what could possibly go wrong?

There is a genuine mystery at the heart of this book, and it’s not how a Nazi could become a Stasi agent; ex-Nazis were recruited on both sides of the Iron Curtain. No, it’s bigger than that. Much bigger. It’s about the whole economic shape of the World. That’s what the Goldbug refers to; Goldbugs are economists who feel that breaking the link between Gold and money has skewed the World in favour of rich countries who can create paper assets, while screwing the rest who can’t.

What really broke the link was when Britain overexpanded its money supply in the mid 1960’s and rather than simply raising inflation this propelled Britain up the growth charts and made London the pre-eminent place for trading money and all its derivatives. Other countries followed that lead and today the World’s money supply is so big and complex that managing it takes up more of the Earth’s resources than farming. The really curious thing is that no one knows what caused that initial boost to the money supply and in this novel I propose a solution to this mystery -a massive counterfeiting attack on Britain.

My explanation is consistent with the data and is supported by the fact that fake British notes from the ‘60’s were far superior to the counterfeits found in other countries, even though it was harder to manage since we used various security devices that other currencies didn’t; such as little metal threads that wouldn’t be used in dollars until the 1990’s. Other events that inspired parts of this novel are the mystery surrounding the sinking of the tramp-steamer Louric, the escape in ’66 of the spy George Blake from Wormwood Scrubs, and the rising recruitment of women into the UK security and police services in the ‘60’s.

©2024 Andre Clark (P)2024 Andre Clark
Crime Fiction Literature & Fiction
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