{"product_id":"the-spider-network-by-david-enrich","title":"The Spider Network by David Enrich","description":"\u003cspan\u003eListed as an FT book of the month`Anyone with an interest in financial services and in what has gone wrong will find The Spider Network compelling.' - Daniel Finkelstein, The Times`Will snare you in its web of deceit, lies, corruption, manipulation and colourful characters. [a] brilliant investigative expose' - Harlan Coben, bestselling thriller author `A gripping narrative ... impressive reporting and writing chops are on full display ...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereads like a fast-paced John le Carre thriller, and never lets up' - New York Times book review `A feat of reporting, and much of it reads like a novel' - Leigh Gallagher, Washington Post `A model of investigative financial writing... a more satisfying read than THE BIG SHORT by Michael Lewis' - Literary Review `Remarkable', Sunday Times `Jaw-dropping', Financial TimesIn 2006, an oddball group of bankers, traders and brokers from some of the largest financial institutions made a startling realization: Libor-the London interbank offered rate, which determines the interest rates on trillions in loans worldwide-was set daily by a small group of easily manipulated administrators, and that they could reap huge profits by nudging it fractions of a percent to suit their trading portfolios. Tom Hayes, a brilliant but troubled mathematician, became the lynchpin of a wild alliance that included a prickly French trader nicknamed \"Gollum\"; the broker \"Abbo,\" who liked to publicly strip naked when drinking; a nervous Kazakh chicken farmer known as \"Derka Derka\"; a broker known as \"Village\" (short for \"Village Idiot\") who racked up huge expense account bills; an executive called \"Clumpy\" because of his patchwork hair loss; and a broker uncreatively nicknamed \"Big Nose\" who had once been a semi-professional boxer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis group generated incredible riches -until it all unraveled in spectacularly vicious, backstabbing fashion. With exclusive access to key characters and evidence, The Spider Network is not only a rollicking account of the scam, but also a provocative examination of a financial system that was crooked throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"The Week Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":54037957378324,"sku":"nul1789765087970","price":13.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/7627\/9316\/files\/the-spider-network-by-david-enrich_1.jpg?v=1789765091","url":"https:\/\/straphemfit.shop\/products\/the-spider-network-by-david-enrich","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}