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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780751563399

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ON SALE: 22nd October 2015

Genre: Biography & True Stories / Biography: General

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When Leeson was arrested in 1995 for bringing Barings Bank to its knees, it initially seemed as if he had single-handedly crushed the company. Indeed, it was he alone who found himself in the dark confines of a Singapore jail, from where he wrote Rogue Trader. Now updated for the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of Barings, this is his story of a broken system; of a cast of characters blind to anything but profits – whatever the cost.

Leeson’s tale of boom and bust is an important reminder of the immense power the banking system held and, worryingly, still holds.

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