description: Can a lone American lawyer stop Japan from bringing down the US?Matthew Walton, a freelance corporate 'takeover' lawyer, is hired by a mysterious Japanese industrialist to purchase a New York office building and begin a massive 'hedging' in the financial markets. Two weeks later, off an island in the Inland Sea, divers working for the industrialist's organization, recover the original Imperial Sword, given to Japan's first Emperor by the Sun Goddess, Japan's 'Excalibur', and lost in a sea battle in 1185. He forms an '800-Year Fund' and billions of yen flow to his fingertips. He then dumps all the Treasuries Japan had acquired and devastates the American economy.As the story rushes to its stunning conclusion, Matt Walton goes to Japan and determines that the 'Imperial Sword' is, in fact an unusual antique he once owned himself.Bantam 1988 A financial thriller right out of the headlines. Adam Smith. A high-finance, high-tech thriller of Wall Street, murder, and currency manipulation.A high-finance, high-tech thriller that correctly predicted the 1987 stock market crash. It was the first fictional treatment of a major international concern of the Eighties. Set in locales as diverse as Wall Street and the offices of Japan's powerful Trade Ministry, THE SAMURAI STRATEGY describes a scenario of murder, worldwide currency manipulation, a revival of Japan's smoldering nationalism, and is set against a background of a new high-tech computer milieu.
language: German
title: Wallstreet Samurai. Thriller.
titlecomplete: Wallstreet Samurai. Thriller.
genres: Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Japan, Amazon
ratings_count: 338
publisher: Lübbe