Stolen sports cars, brilliant casino heists, and the brazen kidnapping of a prince: only shadowy spy for hire Simon Riske can stop the mastermind behind it all.

Monte Carlo's lavish casinos have become the target of a sophisticated and brutal team of professional gamblers; a casino dealer has been beaten to death; a German heiress's son has been kidnapped. Who better to connect the crimes and foil a daringly brilliant plot than Simon Riske, freelance industrial spy? Riske -- part Bond, part Reacher -- knows Monte Carlo well: it's where he was once a thrill-seeking thief himself, robbing armored trucks and leading police on dangerous car chases across the Côte d'Azur, until he was double-crossed, served his time, and graduated as an investment genius from the Sorbonne.

Now Riske is a man who solves problems, the bigger and "riskier" the better. From the baccarat tables of Europe's finest casinos to the superyachts moored in Monaco's Port Hercule to a secluded chalet deep in the Swiss Alps, Riske will do what he does best: get in over his head, throw himself into danger, and find a way to outthink and outmaneuver villains of every stripe.

In one of the most clever, enjoyable, and entertaining series to come along in years, this sequel to The Take gives readers what they want most: a hero we can root for, locales we wish we were in, and a plot that never lets up.

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Title: Fifteen discourses on the marvellous works in nature, delivered by a father to his children: calculated to make mankind feel, in every thing, the very presence of a Supreme Being, and to influence their minds with a permanent delight in, and firm reliance upon, the directions of an almighty, all-good, and all-wise Creator, and Governor.Author: Charles Christopher ReichePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02868800CollectionID: CTRG99-B438PublicationDate: 17910101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Collation: 4], 180 p.; 17 cm

Hailed as "the John Grisham of Wall Street" by the "New York Times," Christopher Reich returns to the world he knows so well--the dangerous, dazzling world of high finance and international intrigue. In this ingeniously crafted thriller, the bestselling author of Numbered Account and The First Billion introduces his most complex and engaging hero yet: forensic accountant Adam Chapel--and paints a frightening scenario where terrorism is big business and money is the ultimate weapon of war...
The explosion that shatters the smart Parisian apartment reverberates around the globe. In an instant, a suspected terrorist is dead and half a million dollars has vanished. Within days, the CIA is certain it has found a connection between the dead man and a planned terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Determined to avert another 9/11, they have assembled an elite counterterrorist task force, code name: Blood Money. Its mission: to follow the money trail. Its secret weapon: forensic accountant Adam Chapel. A man who trusts numbers more than people, Chapel has his own reasons for wanting to get the job done-- four of his colleagues were killed in the Paris blast. Now Chapel is thrust back into the line of fire when he teams up with British intelligence agent Sarah Churchill. The two are assigned to hunt down a shadowy mastermind who is moving vast sums of money from country to country, from bank to bank, leaving no tracks--as he prepares for an Armaggedon of his own devising.
As Chapel follows a disappearing money trail from Paris to Munich to the deserts of Saudi Arabia, Sarah uses her elite training to stalk the "shadow" and his elusive network. Meanwhile, their quarry is auditing their every move, laying a twisting trail of false clues and shocking surprises. With the clock ticking down, soon Chapel and Sarah have only days, hours, minutes to avert disaster as a master terrorist plots to unleash the first strike in a brilliantly orchestrated conspiracy--with an almost unimaginable goal.
Hurtling us from the winding alleys of Pakistan to the elite banking houses of Europe, The Devil's Banker creates an adrenaline-fueled world where following the money has never been more dangerous, and evil has never been harder to unmask.

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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich VWL - Finanzwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena (Lehrstuhl fur Volkswirtschaftslehre), 27 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der Vergangenheit ist es schon an allen wichtigen Borsenplatzen der Welt zu grossen Kurseinbruchen innerhalb kurzer Zeit, so genannten Crashs," gekommen. Als das letzte markante Ereignis dieser Art lasst sich wohl das Platzen der Internet- und New Economy Blase an den Finanzmarkten um die Jahrtausendwende anfuhren. Die klassische Finanztheorie mit ihrem Modell der informationseffizienten Markte, auf denen rationale Akteure optimale Entscheidungen treffen, ist nicht in der Lage gewesen solche Vor-kommnisse in der Vergangenheit zu erklaren. Insbesondere die von der Okonomie so vielfach verwendete Annahme des homo oeconomicus" ist zunehmend in die Kritik geraten, da Menschen in der Wirklichkeit haufig die geforderte Rationalitat nicht an den Tag legen. Insofern war es an der Zeit uber neue Erklarungsansatze fur die an den Finanzmarkten auftretenden Anomalien nachzudenken. Als Ergebnis dieser Bemuhungen kann die Begrundung der Behavioral Finance angesehen werden. Sie versucht das von den klassischen Annahmen abweichende Verhalten der Akteure, mit Hilfe psychologischer Verhaltensmodelle zu erklaren. Ein wichtiger Baustein in den Modellen der klassischen Theorie ist das Prinzip der Arbitrage. Sie garantiert, dass rationale Akteure Kursentwicklungen, die eventuell von Fundamentalwerten abweichen, uber die Moglichkeit von risikolosen Arbitragegewinnen wieder in die Richtung der realistischen Werte bewegen. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit soll es sein zu zeigen, wie die Arbitrage als das zentrale Instrument zum Erreichen von Gleichgewichten an den Finanzmarkten, im Rahmen der veranderten Modellannahmen der Behavioral Finance, an die Grenzen ihrer Wirksamkeit stosst. Dazu gilt es in einem ersten Teil die Behavioral Finance von der klassischen Finanztheorie ab

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich BWL - Rechnungswesen, Bilanzierung, Steuern, Note: 2,3, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, 20 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat sich in vielen entwickelten Volkswirtschaften ein Wandel von einer Industrie- zu einer Dienstleistungsgesellschaft vollzogen. Damit einhergehend verschob sich auch die Bedeutung von physischen, produktiven Unternehmenswerten zugunsten von nicht greifbaren und nicht monetaren Werten wie Marken, Humankapital und Innovationsfahigkeit. Einen Uberblick uber die Vielzahl dieser immateriellen Werte gibt der Vorschlag zur Kategorisierung und Erfassung immaterieller Werte der Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft fur Betriebswirtschaft, indem sie die Aufteilung in ver-schiedene Kategorien vornimmt. Der zunehmende Einfluss dieser immateriellen Vermogenswerte als wichtige Werttreiber im Unternehmen, spiegelt sich jedoch in den meisten Rechnungslegungssystemen noch nicht ausreichend wider. Meist durfen selbsterstellte immaterielle Werte in der Bilanz nicht aktiviert werden, weil ein zukunftiger Nutzen nicht oder nicht ausreichend sicher quantifizierbar ist. In diesem Zusammenhang spricht man bei einer engen Auslegung des Vorsichtsprinzips auch von Konservatismus. Es lassen sich zwei Formen der konservativen Bilanzierung unterscheiden: ex ante und ex post Conservatism. Ex ante Conservatism verlangt fur die Bilanzierung von Verpflichtungen einen geringeren Wahrscheinlichkeitsgrad als fur die Bilanzierung von Vermogen. Daraus resultiert eine dauerhafte Unterbewertung des Unternehmens. Ex post Conservatism hingegen bezieht sich auf die Ansetzung von Verlusten, sobald sie absehbar sind und die Ansetzung von Gewinnen erst dann, wenn sie realisiert sind. Betreibt ein Unternehmen eine konservative Bilanzierungspolitik, so stellt sich dies insbesondere fur die, mit grossen Unsicherheiten behafteten, immateriellen Vermogenswerten wegen der unzureichenden Erfassung a