The Minerva System

ISBN-13: 9781909411180 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 326 str.

Simon Leighton-Porter

Opis

Part one of the Death to Bankers series. Tom Mansell, City trader turned IT developer, has created Minerva, a world-leading electronic trading system. Its success attracts the wrong kind of attention and Mansell finds himself caught up in a battle for ownership, pitting an American Investment Bank against the sovereign wealth authority of the republic of Nashyastan, owner of the world's largest non-OPEC oil reserves and the West's new best friend in the darker side of The War Against Terror. Neither has a single scruple between them. As the bitter struggle intensifies, the stakes are raised and coercion gives way to violence. Betrayed by those he trusts to protect him, Mansell faces a race against time to save all he holds dear from destruction. In the City, no one cares if you scream...