| Paul Erdman is the author of two best-sell-ing novels about high finance, internationalintrigue, sex and money: The Billion DollarSure Thing and The Silver Bears. His new novel, The Crash of 79, is evenmore exciting--a book so real that its plotreads like today s headlines. The centralfigure is that world traveler, playboy, des-pot, and winter-sports enthusiast Hisimperial Majesty the Shah of Iran, whosegrandiose and megalomaniacal dreams,nurtured in secret and financed by oilmoney, engulf the lives of Erdman s char-acters, each of whom, unknowingly, is con-tributing to the event that will bring aboutthe Crash of 79 and the demise of theindustrial West. Bill Hitchcock, the hero, is a successfulbanker, divorced skirtchaser, confirmedcynic and financial genius. It is Hitchcockwhom the Saudi Arabians pick to managetheir vast hoard of accumulated oil profits(an estimated 400 billion dollars today)and to fire a warning shot across the bowsof the Western financial community. |
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