The Bank: A Wall Street Financial & Legal Thriller. Singularity, #0

EVERY BANK HAS SECRETS. SOME ARE WORTH A FEW MURDERS.A high-stakes international financial thriller. A global banking conspiracy that could shake the entire financial system. Dive into a gripping legal drama where financial corruption, money laundering, and market manipulation collide in relentless suspense. Jim Bentley, a young lawyer with a promising career at Bolton Sayres Investment Bank, seems to have it all: a prestigious career, an influential father-in-law, and a perfect life.
But everything changes when he discovers a decades-old journal linked to the murder of a gold vault manager. The journal reveals a shocking crime: an $11 million gold bullion heist, covered up by a secret network of corrupt bankers and ruthless hitmen. As Jim digs deeper, he becomes ensnared in a mass surveillance system, tracked by a former FSB Russian assassin, and drawn into a secret government plot.
Gold market manipulations, corporate crime, and financial wrongdoing intertwine as he descends into a world where power and money rule all. Two unlikely allies join him: A hacker from Silicon Alley, an expert in evading digital surveillance. A widow whose murdered husband held the key to everything. From the skyscrapers of Manhattan to hidden Wall Street vaults and remote forests of New York State, Jim races against time to uncover the truth.
Every discovery shows that some secrets are too dangerous to reveal. The author, A. B. Goodman, is a lawyer engaged in complex litigation and Wall Street financial markets law. As a FINRA arbitrator, he resolves disputes between different brokerage firms, sales associates and between the brokers and their clients, giving him direct insight into the mechanics and pressures of the modern financial world.
This expertise gives The Bank its authenticity, with plots based on financial crimes and the hidden workings of the surveillance state. He is also the author of the science-fiction saga Singularity and the mythological series House of Atreus. A must-read for fans of financial thrillers, legal dramas, and banking conspiracies inspired by real-life events. If you enjoy Michael Lewis, Dan Brown, or John Grisham, The Bank is a good fit."An original and deftly crafted story blending financial technologies and crime...
a compulsive page-turner... unreservedly recommended for personal, community, and academic libraries." -Library BookwatchPrequel to the Singularity Trilogy (set in 2034), taking place in the same universe and featuring the same core characters twenty years earlier.