Private Banker: Behind the Secret Curtain

By Jan Ziemecki Sr.

What happens when hundreds of Russian trained intelligence agents are unleashed on the unsuspecting new economies and the budding business community of the ex-Soviet Block? The Berlin Wall has fallen, and billions are slated for privatization in the CEE. The battle to reap the bounty that the shift from communism to capitalism has brought forth, has begun. The Soviet era puppet masters from the now disbanded and outlawed intelligence agencies are forced underground, but continue to use intimidation, kidnapping, and murder, to control business leaders and politicians in their effort to tear every scrap from the carcasses of the economies they have controlled for decades. This will be the largest and most important operation of their careers, and they'll pull out all the stops to win what they see is rightfully theirs. As fortunes are born, predatory Swiss banks scrambles to provide unlawful services to the Ultra High Net Worth, and Richard Dunin Borkowski, a young hard partying stock broker from Philadelphia is lured to cover Easter Europe for a suspect old line Swiss Bank. Richard's a dreamer. His obsession with obtaining great wealth and beautiful women lead him to a massive atomic energy transfer deal, and a love affair with one of the sexiest, and most dangerous women he will ever meet. He finds himself on the wrong side of forces that will stop at nothing to take control of the most lucrative private transactions in the regions living memory, and must team up with underworld figures to save his own life. This often humorous satirical story depicts the lavish lifestyles of the new rich. Extravagant parties in Palaces, hunts in the wilds near the Lithuanian border, Polo, castles, and affairs with beautiful women fill out the narrative. But on a deeper level, Private Banker describes the wholesale systematic plunder of assets, mass privatization fraud, and historic manipulation of the masses, all through the eyes of an ordinary guy fighting for his place on a dangerous stage, in a country and system he struggles to understand.The author is a veteran private banker who covered Forbes 100 clients for Merrill Lynch Bank Suisse during the violent period that saw the end to some of the most powerful business leaders ever to emerge in the region. He currently lives in Casablanca, where he's writing the second book in this series titled PRIVATE BANKER: THE CLUBS of MOHAMMEDIA.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1977096050
• ISBN13: 9781977096050
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"