A Banker for All Seasons
Bank Of Crooks And Cheats Incorporated
Ali, Tariq
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
In this never before published screenplay, A Banker for All Seasons dramatically presents the rise and fall of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), a third world bank that became an international empire. BCCI pioneered a mode of operation based on deception and included money laundering, arms trafficking, smuggling, and the covert sale of nuclear technologies. Tariq Ali was one of the first public voices to warn that the Bank was not all it seemed to be. Indeed, many of its own employees called BCCI the "Bank of Crooks and Cheats Incorporated". The Bank finally imploded amidst a welter of scandal. By combining screenplay and political essay, Ali reveals how BCCI lasted so long, how financial regulators failed to see what was going on and how it prepared the way for other financial cataclysms in the decades to come.
AUTHOR BIO
Tariq Ali is a writer, and filmmaker, long-time political activist and campaigner. He has written over a dozen books on world history and politics including The Clash of Fundamentalisms and Bush in Babylon, Rough Music, Pirates of the Caribbean, five novels, and scripts for both stage and screen.
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BOOK REVIEWS
Reviews for The Leopard and the Fox,
"Ali broadens our horizons, geographically, historically, intellectually and politically. His mode of history telling is lyrical and engaging, humane and passionate." --The Nation
"Just reading the script, you feel his [Ali's] command of the political subject matter." --Morning Star
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1905422652
ISBN(13-digit): 9781905422654
Dewey Decimal: 822.914
Library of Congress: 2008371060
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 254
