Pressure, pace, error: ROGUE TRADER grippingly tells the inside story of how the greatest gamble ever made rocked the City of London to its foundations. Crackling with tension, in a narrative as crisp as any thriller, Nick Leeson's autobiographical account reveals how he 'lost' £800 millions as General Manager of Baring Futures Singapore through foolhardy speculations on behalf of his employer, Barings Brothers - the world's first merchant bank. As Leeson's audacity escalated, so did his losses while London continued to pour money down the drain. ROGUE TRADER is a dazzlingly revealing story of a man shaped by events that proved beyond his control.
- 'Hair-raising…as revealing a document about contemporary Britain as all 2,000 pages of the Scott Report' - OBSERVER
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- 'The story of Leeson and his bride has it all: filthy lucre, brazen abuse of power, and boy-meets-girl romance' - SUNDAY TIMES
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- 'Simultaneously entertaining and appalling' - FINANCIAL TIEMS
Paperback:
£7.99
Published 24/06/1999
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