Meltdown

In a world where your hiding places are suddenly exposed, where do you put your skeletons? This is more than the story of Credit Suisse, a bank that failed. It's a shocking and brutally honest deep dive into a shady world of greed, lies and unrelenting human ambition.Credit Suisse was a 166-year-old bastion of Swiss banking, amongst the most important and influential financial institutions in the world – but a veneer of high-class service disguised a darker, dirtier reality. From its sterile Zurich headquarters, the bank catered to a clientele that included dictators, drug dealers and former Nazi officers, and helped fleece its own clients out of billions of dollars. This continued for decades, even as Credit Suisse continued to expand, acquiring smaller banks and granting its own executives lucrative bonus contracts.Meltdown is the story of how the house of cards fell apart. Bloomberg investigative journalist and bestselling author of Pyramid of Lies Duncan Mavin takes readers inside the bank’s hushed marble corridors, detailing its secretive culture and the series of increasingly selfish decisions, made by a handful of men at the top, which ultimately led to disaster. This is the fascinating history of one of the biggest financial institutions of our times, which forces the question: in a modern world of free information, will big banks ever be allowed to survive again? And, more importantly, should they be?

Unputdownably delicious . . . the British version of Bad Blood . . . [but] better, Terrific . . . shows the emptiness behind the bombast, A meticulously researched and enjoyably lively account, Forensic and riveting, An incredible book, transforming a complex financial scandal into a rich character drama

Duncan Mavin is a seasoned international financial journalist, having started his career as a chartered accountant in the City and in Toronto. He has been a reporter and editor for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, and was the Journal’s Financial Editor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He has also been Managing Editor for Barron’s Group and a reporter for Canada’s National Post, and he's the bestselling author of "Britain's version of Bad Blood", the Lex Greensill exposé Pyramid of Lies. He lives with his family in the UK, and is a long-suffering fan of Sunderland football club.

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