The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI

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Beard Books, 2004 - Business & Economics - 428 pages
From the two Time correspondents who cracked the story, the definitive book on the Bank of Credit and Commerce International: an explosive, fast-paced expose of one of the largest criminal conspiracies in history. Beaty and Gwynne's riveting first-person account not only puts all the pieces together for the first time, but brings to life the cloak-and-dagger intrigue that surrounded their investigation. 16 pages of photos.
 

Contents

BACK CHANNELS
3
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER
15
INTO THE LOOKING GLASS
31
PIERCING THE SCAMS HEART
48
TO ABU DHABI AND BEYOND
65
END OF EMPIRE
93
THE RISE OF THE OUTLAW BANK
123
OUT OF THE BLUE
125
ROCK AND ROLL
221
THE BANK THAT CAN GET YOU ANYTHING
257
THE HIDDEN ALLIANCE
278
MR CASEYS BANK
298
THE COVERUP
321
THE BIG SLEEP
323
BEYOND ZERO
345
EPILOGUE
359

GILT BY ASSOCIATION
147
THE BLACK RAJ
190
BANKERS GUNS AND MONEY
219
NOTES
363
INDEX
373
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Jonathan Beaty, a senior correspondent for Time Magazine, gained a national reputation for his investigative reporting unraveling financial and political conspiracies ranging from the Vatican Banking scandal to the BCCI affair. Now retired and living on a remote cattle ranch in New Mexico, he is writing a book about the CIA and Middle Eastern arms dealing. S.C. Gwynne is a journalist who worked for Time and Texas Monthly. He has written several books including Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History and Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson.

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