Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction

Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction

by David Enrich
Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction

Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction

by David Enrich

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#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 

New York Times finance editor David Enrich's explosive exposé of the most scandalous bank in the world, revealing its shadowy ties to Donald Trump, Putin's Russia, and Nazi Germany

“A jaw-dropping financial thriller” —Philadelphia Inquirer

On a rainy Sunday in 2014, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was found hanging in his London apartment. Bill Broeksmit had helped build the 150-year-old financial institution into a global colossus, and his sudden death was a mystery, made more so by the bank’s efforts to deter investigation. Broeksmit, it turned out, was a man who knew too much.

In Dark Towers, award-winning journalist David Enrich reveals the truth about Deutsche Bank and its epic path of devastation. Tracing the bank’s history back to its propping up of a default-prone American developer in the 1880s, helping the Nazis build Auschwitz, and wooing Eastern Bloc authoritarians, he shows how in the 1990s, via a succession of hard-charging executives, Deutsche made a fateful decision to pursue Wall Street riches, often at the expense of ethics and the law.

Soon, the bank was manipulating markets, violating international sanctions to aid terrorist regimes, scamming investors, defrauding regulators, and laundering money for Russian oligarchs. Ever desperate for an American foothold, Deutsche also started doing business with a self-promoting real estate magnate nearly every other bank in the world deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next twenty years, Deutsche executives loaned billions to Trump, the Kushner family, and an array of scandal-tarred clients, including convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Dark Towers is the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality—the corporate equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction. It is also the story of a man who was consumed by fear of what he’d seen at the bank—and his son’s obsessive search for the secrets he kept.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062878823
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 02/18/2020
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 432
Sales rank: 501,714
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

David Enrich is the Business Investigations Editor at the New York Times and the #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers. He previously was an editor and reporter at the Wall Street Journal. He has won numerous journalism awards, including the 2016 Gerald Loeb Award for feature writing. His first book, The Spider Network: How a Math Genius and Gang of Scheming Bankers Pulled Off One of the Greatest Scams in History, was short-listed for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award. Enrich grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, and graduated from Claremont McKenna Collee in California. He currently lives in New York with his wife and two sons.

Table of Contents

Author's Note xv

Prologue 1

Part I

Chapter 1 A Criminal Enterprise 13

Chapter 2 Edsok and Bill 27

Chapter 3 Wall Street's Great Migration 42

Chapter 4 Forces of Darkness 51

Chapter 5 Project Osprev 63

Chapter 6 Trump's Bankers 68

Chapter 7 Riptide 81

Chapter 8 The Last Day 87

Chapter 9 Ackermann 97

Chapter 10 The Mar-A-Lago Prize 112

Chapter 11 Der Inder 122

Chapter 12 Fireman 133

Chapter 13 "This Guy is a Danger" 143

Chapter 14 The Pendulum Swings 146

Chapter 15 Clueless Old Man 157

Chapter 16 Rosemary Vrablic 166

Chapter 17 Anshu Ascendant 178

Chapter 18 Dumping Ground 186

Chapter 19 5,777 Requests for Information 191

Chapter 20 Stress 203

Part II

Chapter 21 Valentin 213

Chapter 22 Life Extinct 22!

Chapter 23 Everything Is Upside Down 223

Chapter 24 No Reason For Concern 231

Chapter 25 Poor Brilliant Bill 241

Chapter 26 The North Koreans 251

Chapter 27 No Confidence 258

Chapter 28 Trump Endeavor 12 LLC 269

Chapter 29 The Damage I Have Done 279

Chapter 30 Person of Interest 287

Chapter 31 Siena 298

Chapter 32 Rosemary is the Boss 305

Chapter 33 Do Not Utter the Word "Trump" 314

Chapter 34 Spycraft 323

Chapter 35 A Note From The President 334

Epilogue 351

Afterword: The Case Is Submitted 363

Acknowledgments 375

Endnotes 379

Index 403

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