- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Headline Book Publishing (1 Sep 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0755306244
- ISBN-13: 978-0755306244
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,956,044 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'It is difficult to walk casually with USD 500,000 taped to your belly.' The man with the money is being tailed by Sarah Churchill, MI6 agent. She's in the smuggler's bazaar in Peshawar, Pakistan, and very soon everything is going to explode all around her. In Paris, Nick Neumann, special agent for the US Foreign Terrorist Tracking Centre, has his eyes on a man carrying a scuffed briefcase containing half a million dollars of booby-trapped terrorist cash. Before Nick can get his hands on it, four US government agents will be dead. We are in a new era of the war against terrorism. It's a war against terrorist money. BLOOD MONEY. Christopher Reich's new thriller is a white knuckle ride through the back corridors of the elite counterterrorist agencies as they attempt to disrupt and dismantle the financial networks that sustain terrorist organisations throughout the world. It is his most brilliant, most gripping, most-bang-up-to-date thriller yet.
About the Author
Christopher Reich worked for a major Swiss bank in Geneva before joining its department of mergers and acquisitions in Zurich. In 1995 he decided to pursue writing full-time. He lives in California and Switzerland with his wife and children.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Familiar and Cliché,
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This review is from: The Devil's Banker (Hardcover)
Christopher Reich has written some good novels, most notably, “Numbered Account”. With his first book he started to carve himself a place by writing contemporary thrillers that were driven by his own background in international finance. With his newest work he unfortunately has joined many of his peers in the genre, by taking the easiest way out and borrowing his adversaries from current events. Others may still enjoy yet another take on stereotyped Arabic adversaries; I find the subject to be cliché and to read like it is being recited from too many other tales I have recently been through.Another annoying aspect of these stories is that they trade on the very real tragedy that was September 11. Continually reusing the concept of, “preventing another 9-11”, is beginning to read like tabloid news and opportunistic talk shows that skim their subject matter off the lowest depths. Mr. Reich even borrows the real life name of a Prime Minister’s daughter that is both obvious and heavy handed. A writer that feels the need to be so patronizing to his readers should take a moment before structuring his next work. I have enjoyed his previous three books to varying degrees but, “The Devil’s Banker”, sets a new level for this writer’s work that I hope he does not revisit.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An Intelligent Thriller,
By C. Green "happily low brow" (Quenington, Glos, UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Devil's Banker (Hardcover)
In the post-9/11 world nearly every new thriller that deals with the threat of global terrorism seems to follow a similar template. Namely that the bad guys are fanatical followers of Islam bent on the destruction of the west, and those who fight them are either dogged FBI agents seeking to prevent another terrorist atrocity or CIA/MI6 agents hunting down a worldwide terrorist network.It is refreshing therefore, to find in Christopher Reich's new thriller the current conventions being turned on their collective heads. From the lead protagonists, where the stereotypical male & female roles are reversed so that the man is gunshy and bookish and the woman tough and resourceful, to the 'bad-guys', who are motivated not by a desire to destroy western civilisation but to rebuild their own, this book delights in rewriting the rules. And it does it very well. For a story that relies on tracing bank accounts & money transfers rather than guns or people to drive it the narrative cracks along at a good pace. It is well researched, the major characters are well drawn and whilst it contains enough twists and turns to keep you entertained it never becomes so convoluted as to confuse you. It is a taught, original thriller which will keep the reader gripped from start to finish. Of course it isn't perfect mind you. Squeezing all the action into a relatively short period of time whilst at the same time having characters jumping around Europe, South America and USA does make you question how far you could travel in the time available. And whilst the major characters are well drawn and complex some of the minor figures are little more than cardboard cutouts, their to move the story along. Compared to Reich's previous books it is up there with Numbered Account and comes close to The First Billion, but it lacks the taught, linnear feel of The Runner that made the latter book so enjoyable. Still, if nothing else it is good to read a book from this genre where, just for once, it is not the American hero who saves the day and the girl but the otherway round.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Your average thriller, full of cliches,
This review is from: The Devil's Banker (Paperback)
I read The Devil's Banker in about a day, that says a lot about it. It is your average run-of-the-mill thriller that totters along at a pretty rapid pace, bypassing subtlety and depth, and heading straight towards overblown drama. None of the characters are believable, particularily Sarah Churchill, and the baddies are cliched Arab terrorists. Throw in a few predictable red herrings and you've got "The Devil's Banker". The plotline is a much repeated 'post Sept 11th terrorist attack somewhere in the US - who will stop it?' type with nothing new, original or different added. On the plus side, it is quite well-written, albeit with cliches galore. Furthermore, the plot does run at a pretty rapid pace, so all is not lost.So basically, this is not a boring book, but don't expect any originality either.
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