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The cheap credit available from 2002 to 2008 radically transformed societies worldwide, with Icelanders tossing aside their fishing gear to become bankers, for instance. Then the crunch came, and many of these societies are stumbling about as part of the new Third World.' As a greedy debtor nation, we're not so far behind.--"Library Journal."
2) Stone's fall
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2009.
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In this dazzling historical mystery, John Stone, financier and arms dealer, dies falling out of a window at his London home. The quest to uncover the truth behind his death plays out against the backdrop of high-stakes international finance, Europe's first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century's arms race.
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Former U.S. marine and Harvard Business School graduate Nicholas Neumann leaves behind everything he holds dear in order to take a job at the United Swiss Bank in Zurich, an institution that he believes is somehow connected to his father's murder seventeen years earlier.
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