Greed
The page-turning thriller that warned of financial melt-down
$26.91
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
23 September 2020
Summary
The page-turning international thriller that warns us about unbridled human greed and excess, with a truly groundbreaking solution for freewheeling capitalism.
‘CORRUPT BIG BUSINESS, ECONOMY IN MELTDOWN, THE THRILLER THAT WARNED US ALL’ ‘Marc Elsberg is nothing if not prescient’ GUARDIAN
It’s the near future: the world economy is in freefall. Mass unemployment and hunger rage as banks, corporations and countries go bankrupt. But one group are doing just fine: the super-rich.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784163471 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784163473 |
| Author: | Marc Elsberg, Simon Pare |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 23 September 2020 |
| Weight: | 314g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 127mm x 198mm |
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Marc Elsberg
Marc Elsberg (Author)
Marc Elsberg is a former creative director in advertising. His debut thriller, the high-concept disaster thriller BLACKOUT, became a bestseller and one of the most successful thrillers of its kind in Germany. He has also given a TEDx talk on the subject of the horrors of an electrical grid failure. BLACKOUT and his follow-up, CODE ZERO, were selected as Scientific Book of the Year in Germany. BLACKOUT was named Thriller of the Month by The Times. His latest bestselling thriller, GREED, contains cutting-edge research on the economy. He lives in Vienna, Austria.
Simon Pare (Translator)
Simon Pare was born in Pembury, England, in July 1972. He grew up in Shropshire and studied French and German at Cambridge University. After an MSc in Sustainable Agriculture, Simon worked in Fairtrade in Paris before becoming a literary translator in 2006. His published translations include Atlas of an Anxious Man by Christoph Ransmayr (2016), the bestselling The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George (2015), and Richard von Schirach’s The Night of the Physicists (2015).
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