Crash, Lawrence Light
Crash, Lawrence Light
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Crash

Author: Lawrence Light, David Hagberg

Narrator: Graham Winton

Unabridged: 9 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/28/2020


Synopsis

The second Great Depression is coming. The world’s economies are groaning under too much debt. If one thing goes wrong, the entire rickety system collapses. Now, acclaimed award-winning New York Times bestselling novelist David Hagberg and renowned financial reporter Lawrence Light have combined forces to dramatize?hour by hour?how this all-too-real catastrophe could go down in Crash.

With debt-burdened governments and businesses worldwide about to go bust, a cabal of Wall Street big shots plot to destroy the globe’s stock exchanges. To provide that one thing that goes wrong. In 24 hours, a powerful computer worm will smash the exchanges and spark an international panic, pushing a debt-laden world into the abyss. The Wall Street gang’s investment bank will be the last one standing, able to make a killing amid the ruins.

But one person, who works for their bank as a computer expert, spots the worm embedded deep in its network. Cassy Levin invents a program to destroy the cyber-intruder. Angered by Cassy’s discovery, her bosses order her kidnapping.

Her boyfriend, a former Navy SEAL, is alarmed at Cassy’s disappearance and unravels the plot. Ben Whalen only has until the next morning to save the woman he loves and prevent the economic apocalypse.

This story is based on the genuine threat posed by towering debt, which will make the 2008 financial crisis look puny.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on May 02, 2020

Good Story With Annoying Flaw The story is interesting and timely. The ”Debt Bomb” is a real problem, especially after recent events. Where I have problems is with the description of how financial markets work. Treasury auctions are nothing like described in the book. Also, when a stock begins trading......more

Goodreads review by Tony on November 06, 2020

This book had me hooked from the beginning, but that said, I'm fascinated by the mechanisms of the stock market and was looking forward to a thriller that promised an inside look at how bad things could go with the worldwide debt being as huge as it is. The book mostly delivered on that promise. I t......more

Goodreads review by Anne on January 01, 2021

Novel set over 48 hours within the environment of America's financial institutions, markets and a New York based bank. The recidivist schemers who survived the crash of 2008 are back with an even bigger scam to bring down the world's markets, re-set the globe's insurmountable "debt bomb" and come ou......more

Goodreads review by Peacejanz on July 09, 2020

This is a mystery book about an effort to crash the world economy by high flying economic "experts" and evil wall street barons. The mystery is no big deal - a special computer virus and a lowly employee who notices some weird trades. The Russian mafia is involved; one of the powerful men is a true......more