Dark Towers, David Enrich
Dark Towers, David Enrich
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Dark Towers
Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction

Bestseller

Author: David Enrich

Narrator: BJ Harrison

Unabridged: 13 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/18/2020


Synopsis

“In Dark Towers, David Enrich tells the story of how one of the world’s mightiest banks careened off the rails, threatening everything from our financial system to our democracy through its reckless entanglement with Donald Trump. Darkly fascinating and yet all too real, it’s a tale that will keep you up at night.”
   — John Carreyrou, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of Bad Blood
A searing exposé of the most scandalous bank in the world, including its shadowy ties to Donald Trump’s business empireOn a rainy Sunday in 2014, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was found hanging in his London apartment. Bill Broeksmit had helped build the 150-year-old financial institution into a global colossus, and his sudden death was a mystery, made more so by the bank’s efforts to deter investigation. Broeksmit, it turned out, was a man who knew too much.In Dark Towers, award-winning journalist David Enrich reveals the truth about Deutsche Bank and its epic path of devastation. Tracing the bank’s history back to its propping up of a default-prone American developer in the 1880s, helping the Nazis build Auschwitz, and wooing Eastern Bloc authoritarians, he shows how in the 1990s, via a succession of hard-charging executives, Deutsche made a fateful decision to pursue Wall Street riches, often at the expense of ethics and the law.Soon, the bank was manipulating markets, violating international sanctions to aid terrorist regimes, scamming investors, defrauding regulators, and laundering money for Russian oligarchs. Ever desperate for an American foothold, Deutsche also started doing business with a self-promoting real estate magnate nearly every other bank in the world deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next twenty years, Deutsche executives loaned billions to Trump, the Kushner family, and an array of scandal-tarred clients, including convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Dark Towers is the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality—the corporate equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction. It is also the story of a man who was consumed by fear of what he’d seen at the bank—and his son’s obsessive search for the secrets he kept.

About David Enrich

David Enrich is the Business Investigations Editor at the New York Times and the bestselling author of Dark Towers and Servants of the Damned. The winner of numerous journalism awards, he previously was an editor and reporter at the Wall Street Journal. His first book, The Spider Network: How a Math Genius and Gang of Scheming Bankers Pulled Off One of the Greatest Scams in History, was short-listed for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award. Enrich grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, and graduated from Claremont McKenna College in California. He currently lives in New York with his wife and two sons.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on March 13, 2024

With Trump in the White House there would presumably be extensive digging into every deal he’d ever done, every partner he’d ever worked with, every loan he’d ever received—many of which involved Deutsche. And the facts that Trump’s election was under a cloud because of Russia’s efforts to sway t......more

Goodreads review by Donald on February 21, 2020

This book is all about Deutsche Bank. The Donald Trump material is mostly added to get you to buy the book. There are no revelations about Trump's relations with the bank that have not already been disseminated; however, it is presented in clear and coherent prose and that was worth the price of the......more

Goodreads review by Emma on July 20, 2020

Throughout reading this book, I was very confused by all the different people and the role they played at Deutsche Bank. I really missed an overarching story and the point that the author tried to make. Although the situation itself is interesting, the writing style reminded me a lot of the book ’Ba......more

Goodreads review by Jill on February 18, 2020

Germany’s Deutsche Bank has a long history of some, frankly, “odd” financial dealings that began when the bank was created from putting together many banks to make one large one. Some of these shenanigans involve Donald Trump’s business loans, but David Enright looks at the bank in its history in hi......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on September 09, 2020

This is the book Trump should have tried to ban. Forget Bolton et al. It reveals the incestuous relationship between a bank, Russia, money laundering, and its most famous client. The bank that Donald Trump came to rely on to subsidize his shrinking empire after banks in the US refused to loan him m......more