Recommended Books Related to Financial Crime in 2022
Ian Messenger
Several years ago I wrote a post detailing my 12 recommended book related to Financial Crime, now is time for an updated list.
Below are a collection of my favourite books related to Financial Crime. They cover a wide range of different financial crime types, from bribery and corruption to fraud to money laundering to soccer match-fixing.
(Clicking on the images will take you to their Amazon listing)
1. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Covering the rise and fall of the firm Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup headed by Elizabeth Holmes
2. Secrecy World by Jake Bernstein
Exploring the shadow economy and how it evolved, drawing on millions of leaked documents from the files of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca―a trove now known as the Panama Papers―as well as other journalistic and government investigations
3. Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope
The story of 1MDB and Jho Low
4. The Fix: How Bankers Lied, Cheated and Colluded to Rig the World’s Most Important Number by Liam Vaughan and Gavin Finch
The inside story of the Libor scandal
5. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
The Enron scandal brought down one of the most admired companies of the 1990s.
6. Fools’ Gold: The Making of Global Market Fraud by Brian Hutchinson
The biggest fraud ever perpetrated by a Canadian company, Bre-X
7. Full Service Bank: How BCCI Stole Billions Around the World by James Ring Adams and Douglas Frantz
Two veteran journalists go behind the scenes to reveal the intrigues and machinations that led to the biggest bank fraud in history, detailing BCCI's rise and fall, as well as the personalities involved
8. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System-and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Chronicling the events of the 2008 financial crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers
9. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
The build-up of the United States housing bubble during the 2000s.
10. Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac
The story behind the rise of Uber
11. Out of the Shadows by Timea Nagy
The story of human trafficking survivor Timea Nagy’s experiences in Canada – the foundation of Project Protect
12. Total Risk: Nick Leeson and the Fall of Barings Bank by Judith Rawnsley
The story of rogue trader Nick Leeson whose actions led to the collapse of Barings Bank
13. Public-Private Partnerships: An Examination of the Dynamics of Multi-Agency Arrangements in Different Cultural and Legal Contexts by Ian Messenger
An examination of different Public-Private Partnership models and how they work in practice.
14. Wilful Blindness: How a network of narcos, tycoons and CCP agents infiltrated the West by Sam Cooper The controversial best-seller outlines how business tycoons and China set out for a power grab 40 years ago. The quiet cities of Toronto and Vancouver played important strategic roles. What followed was a flood of narcos, corrupt officials, and hockey bags of money.
15. The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime by Declan Hill
The Fix is the most explosive story of sports corruption in a generation. Intriguing, riveting, and compelling, it tells the story of an investigative journalist who sets out to examine the world of match-fixing in professional soccer.