Het mysterie van Albert I

Johan Op de Beeck

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A LEGAL THRILLER. A FINANCIAL CRIME MYSTERY. A CONSPIRACY INVOLVING MONEY LAUNDERING, MARKET MANIPULATION, AND MASS SURVEILLANCE THAT REACHES THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF POWER.

For fans of legal dramas, financial crime fiction, and murder mysteries, The Bank delivers a high-stakes whistleblower thriller built on the real mechanics of Wall Street corruption.

Young lawyer Jim Bentley has everything: a prestigious career at Bolton Sayres investment bank, a powerful father-in-law, and a life most would envy. Then he discovers a decades-old diary belonging to a murdered gold vault manager. What begins as curiosity becomes a deadly obsession. The diary exposes an $11 million gold fraud, a sophisticated money laundering operation, and evidence of something far more sinister: a secret banking cartel manipulating global gold markets, protected by corrupt bankers and professional assassins.

Now Jim is a target — and a whistleblower whether he wants to be or not. A former KGB/FSB Russian assassin is hunting him. A covert mass surveillance system called THEATRES tracks his every move through the streets of Manhattan. On the run, with his family in danger and billions of dollars at stake, Jim uncovers a web of market manipulation and corporate corruption that stretches from Wall Street's hidden vaults to the forests of upstate New York and across the Mediterranean. The deeper he investigates, the clearer it becomes: this conspiracy reaches the highest levels of American finance and government — and some people will do anything to keep their secrets buried.

With two unlikely allies — a New York hacker expert in defeating surveillance systems, and a widow whose murdered husband holds the final pieces of the puzzle — Jim races against the clock in a gold fraud investigation that could bring down the entire system. But in a world where monstrous power and billions of dollars collide, the system has a way of protecting itself.

A financial thriller that blends legal drama with murder mystery, The Bank exposes the chilling reach of the surveillance state, Wall Street intrigue, ruthless contract killers, and an audacious gold heist in one unputdownable page-turner. Essential reading for fans of corporate corruption thrillers, courtroom drama, and intelligent crime fiction.

PERFECT FOR FANS OF: John Grisham's legal thrillers like The Firm, Robert Harris's financial crime fiction like The Fear Index, the conspiracy suspense of Dan Brown, the Wall Street exposés of Michael Lewis, and the corporate corruption investigations of Sheelah Kolhatkar's Black Edge.

"An original and deftly crafted story blending financial technologies and crime... a compulsive page-turner... unreservedly recommended for personal, community, and academic libraries." —Library Bookwatch

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A. B. Goodman is a practicing attorney concentrating in complex litigation. He is very experienced in Wall Street securities law. As a FINRA arbitrator, he adjudicates disputes between securities firms and their clients — a role that gives him professional insight most people never acquire.

The Bank is not fantasy. The book's surveillance scheme exists. Gold fraud, market manipulation, and corrupt financial cartels also exist. Authenticity transforms The Bank from an exciting thriller into something more and rarer: a novel that knows exactly what it's talking about!

A. B. Goodman is also the author of the Singularity Trilogy, a near-future science fiction saga that reunites the characters of The Bank in a world where artificial intelligence threatens the global financial system, and the dark fantasy series House of Atreus.

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