The Ropespinner Conspiracy

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MICHAEL M. THOMAS
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"Capitalism will sell us the rope with which we will hang it." —Lenin
In Green Monday, Michael M. Thomas dramatized the manipulation of the American economy by the oil price wars. In Someone Else's Money, he portrayed the collapse of an investment empire through an ingenious bond scam. In Hard Money, he followed the politically motivated takeover bid of a powerful broadcasting network. All three books bore the author's unique brand of uncanny prophetic insight, as well as gripping, superb storytelling.
Now, The Ropespinner Conspiracy marks Mr. Thomas' boldest, most stunning achievement to date. In this riveting adventure spanning three decades, America is driven to the brink of financial ruin by a brilliant Soviet conspiracy. The key to the plot is devastatingly simple: launch a banking revolution inside Wall Street that will carry within it the seeds of crisis and collapse. The code name of the plan is Ropespinner, echoing Lenin's faith... Tovább

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MICHAEL M. THOMAS
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"Capitalism will sell us the rope with which we will hang it." —Lenin
In Green Monday, Michael M. Thomas dramatized the manipulation of the American economy by the oil price wars. In Someone Else's Money, he portrayed the collapse of an investment empire through an ingenious bond scam. In Hard Money, he followed the politically motivated takeover bid of a powerful broadcasting network. All three books bore the author's unique brand of uncanny prophetic insight, as well as gripping, superb storytelling.
Now, The Ropespinner Conspiracy marks Mr. Thomas' boldest, most stunning achievement to date. In this riveting adventure spanning three decades, America is driven to the brink of financial ruin by a brilliant Soviet conspiracy. The key to the plot is devastatingly simple: launch a banking revolution inside Wall Street that will carry within it the seeds of crisis and collapse. The code name of the plan is Ropespinner, echoing Lenin's faith in the compulsion of capitalism to destroy itself through its own unrestrained greed.
Grigoriy Menchikov, celebrated Russian thinker, is Ropespinner's guiding genius, a complex, foreboding figure with a passion for poetry and a flair for economic forecasting. Waldo Chamberlain, his American accomplice and soul mate, is a scion of one of America's first families, a gifted Harvard
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Business School professor who sees Ropespinner as a coup that promises to overshadow even his own Nobel prize. Their chosen instrument is Manning Mallory, Waldo's most dazzling disciple. The charismatic leader of a generation of New Businessmen, Mallory has only one motive—the sheer, epic excitement of a dangerous game. Between Ropespinner and its dark, ultimate victory stands an unlikely duo: Francis Mather, an Episcopal priest and one-time investment banker, thrust unexpectedly back into a world of high financial intrigue; and Elizabeth Bennett, a glamorous art investment manager whose conscience forces her reluctantly into the fray.
An electrifying, cautionary tale and an enthralling reading experience, The Ropespinner Conspiracy delves richly and knowingly into a world familiar to the many fans of Michael Thomas, a world of big money, high art, and globe-sweeping power a world whose self-destructive drives may rob us of the very prosperity it helped create.
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