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Montecristo

Author(s): Martin Suter

Location(s): Zurich

Genre(s): Thriller

Era(s): Modern

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Video journalist Jonas Brand is on a rail journey from Zurich to Basel when stock trader Paolo Contini appears to throw himself from the train to his death. Brand sets his footage of the aftermath of the incident aside to investigate a strange coincidence: two 100-Swiss-franc banknotes bearing the same serial number have come into his possession. Sensing an opportunity to graduate from celebrity journalism to serious investigation, he has the banknotes analysed, with bizarrely contradictory… and fatal results.

 

Set in the tangled world of finance, politics and the media, Montecristo is a pacy conspiracy thriller full of betrayal and underhand tactics – a sharp and entertaining demonstration of the topical maxim that some banks are simply ‘too big to fail’.

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As the book opens, a Swiss train on its way to Basel comes to a grinding halt due to a customer incident. A body has been seen flying from the train. Jonas Brand, a...

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