num_pages: 432
description:  New York Times finance editor David Enrich's explosive expos of the most scandalous bank in the world revealing its shadowy ties to Donald Trump Putin's Russia and Nazi GermanyA jaw-dropping financial thriller Philadelphia InquirerOn a rainy Sunday in 2014 a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was found hanging in his London apartment. Bill Broeksmit had helped build the 150-year-old financial institution into a global colossus and his sudden death was a mystery made more so by the banks efforts to deter investigation. Broeksmit it turned out was a man who knew too much.In Dark Towers award-winning journalist David Enrich reveals the truth about Deutsche Bank and its epic path of devastation. Tracing the banks history back to its propping up of a default-prone American developer in the 1880s helping the Nazis build Auschwitz and wooing Eastern Bloc authoritarians he shows how in the 1990s via a succession of hard-charging executives Deutsche made a fateful decision to pursue Wall Street riches often at the expense of ethics and the law.Soon the bank was manipulating markets violating international sanctions to aid terrorist regimes scamming investors defrauding regulators and laundering money for Russian oligarchs. Ever desperate for an American foothold Deutsche also started doing business with a self-promoting real estate magnate nearly every other bank in the world deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next twenty years Deutsche executives loaned billions to Trump the Kushner family and an array of scandal-tarred clients including convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Dark Towers is the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminalitythe corporate equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction. It is also the story of a man who was consumed by fear of what hed seen at the bankand his sons obsessive search for the secrets he kept.
language: English
title: Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
publisher: Custom House