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Gold
A crucial telex disappears from a newsroom in London and an editor turns up dead outside Geneva. Terrorists sabotage gold mines in South Africa, throwing global markets into a tailspin while the price of gold itself soars. American journalist Drew Dumesnil must follow the trail of a possible conspiracy from London to Switzerland to Kuwait and on to the rich mines of the Rand as he tries to prevent a global financial collapse. Aided by economist Carol Connor at the New York Federal Reserve and thwarted by a shadowy metals trader in Zurich, Drew finds his own life at stake as he tries to dig out the truth. Gold is a classic financial thriller in the tradition of Joseph Finder, Christopher Reich and Stephen Frey. Though it first appeared two decades ago, it is as current as today’s headlines.
272 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 8, 1989
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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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