Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the
former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to
get back to the top of the financial pile. When his powerful
brother, the government minister Eugene Rougon, refuses to help
him, he forms a partnership with the engineer Hamelin and founds
the Banque Universelle, which speculates on public works in the
Middle East. But as his greed and desire to outplay his rivals gets
the better of him, the dashing and ruthless Saccard perilously
begins to inflate the value of his enterprise using rumour,
intrigue, financial manipulation and all the other tricks in the
book. Inspired by real events and meticulously researched by Zola,
Money is, in the wake of recent financial scandals, an
all-too-topical exploration of the dynamics of greed, the excesses
of capitalism and its dangerous relationship with politics and the
press.
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