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Gold
Drew, a young reporter for an international financial news service, gets an incredible tip from a stringer in South. revolutionaries have blown up all the major mines - in that country, the largest producer of gold in the world. If released, the news will cause havoc in the financial community, and Drew tries desperately to find verification. He gets it, sends the story across the world, and watches - as the enormous repercussions begin. But then strange things start to happen. The South African stringer disappears; one of Drew's colleagues is murdered- there is a secret meeting between the financial minister of South Africa and his Russian counterpart (Russia is the second largest producer of gold); a shady international banker named Marcus seems to have come into a sudden fortune; and an attempt is made on Drew's life. Can it be, he asks himself in horror, that he has unwittingly been a-major perpetrator of a calamitous hoax? There is only one way to find out-Drew himself must investigate even though he knows that finding the answer may cost him his life. From this dazzling premise, Darrell Delamaide, himself -a former - reporter for an international financial news agency has fashioned a story that is as intriguing and exciting as it is plausible. Totally accurate in its financial detail, it is also a wonderful novel of character, moral dilemma,- and above all of surprise and suspense. Gold raises big issues, asks important questions. But its primary purpose is to entertain.
215 pages, Hardcover
First published November 8, 1989
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About the author
Darrell Delamaide
5 books10 followersDarrell Delamaide is a writer and editor in Washington, D.C. He has published three previous books, including the financial thriller Gold. As a journalist specializing in business and economics, he has reported from five continents.
A native of Pittsburg, Kan., Delamaide lived in Paris, France for 10 years and spent another decade in Europe in various cities in Germany. He is fluent in French and German and has traveled throughout Europe. He has also visited various countries of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Ivory Coast, South Africa and Australia.
In the course of a long career, Delamaide has been on the staff of Dow Jones, International Herald Tribune, Institutional Investor, Bloomberg, and America Online. He has also written for Barron’s, Euromoney, MarketWatch and numerous other publications.
He currently writes a weekly column, “Darrell Delamaide’s Political Capital,” for MarketWatch, a Dow Jones online publication. He also writes for publications of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum in London and is engaged in a number of other writing and editing projects.
Delamaide received his bachelor’s degree from Saint Louis University and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Munich, Germany.
His earlier novel, Gold, was published by Dutton in 1989. Dutton also published his 1994 nonfiction book, The New Superregions of Europe. An earlier nonfiction work, Debt Shock: The Full Story of the World Credit Crisis, was published by Doubleday in 1984.
A native of Pittsburg, Kan., Delamaide lived in Paris, France for 10 years and spent another decade in Europe in various cities in Germany. He is fluent in French and German and has traveled throughout Europe. He has also visited various countries of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Ivory Coast, South Africa and Australia.
In the course of a long career, Delamaide has been on the staff of Dow Jones, International Herald Tribune, Institutional Investor, Bloomberg, and America Online. He has also written for Barron’s, Euromoney, MarketWatch and numerous other publications.
He currently writes a weekly column, “Darrell Delamaide’s Political Capital,” for MarketWatch, a Dow Jones online publication. He also writes for publications of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum in London and is engaged in a number of other writing and editing projects.
Delamaide received his bachelor’s degree from Saint Louis University and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Munich, Germany.
His earlier novel, Gold, was published by Dutton in 1989. Dutton also published his 1994 nonfiction book, The New Superregions of Europe. An earlier nonfiction work, Debt Shock: The Full Story of the World Credit Crisis, was published by Doubleday in 1984.
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April 12, 2011
This was a grab from the shelf to fill in a gap with no book to hand. It’s a suspense novel revolving around the international commodities market, world banking and the gold supply. Drew is a reporter for a news organization providing information for traders in the commodities markets and when he gets a flash form a stringer in South Africa, (pre Apartheid) that some of the gold mines have been sabotaged, he puts the info out on the wire causing a total disruption of the market and world banking in general. He then begins to suspect that the news might have been a hoax and begins to investigate when he runs into threats and stonewalling from South Africa as he uncovers a plot to capture the gold market. Interesting but a slow read for me with a lot of technical international banking and market information.
April 28, 2013
Nicely written book! My timing of reading this (April 2013) was ironical as I saw Gold crash from 1650 to 1325 over three days!
Started off very well. I was a bit disappointed with the way the book ended - seemed hurried and incomplete.
A good read, nevertheless!
Started off very well. I was a bit disappointed with the way the book ended - seemed hurried and incomplete.
A good read, nevertheless!
June 6, 2012
Absolutely stunning what-if write which feels more like a real-time event. Who's to trust in this huge but tightly-knit world we inhabit? Startling and plausible. A fine read!
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