Undermoney

By Jay Newman and Jay Newman

Book Overview

From a seasoned insider of global finance comes a "stimulating, relevant, and dramatic" (The Wall Street Journal) financial and geopolitical thriller about a group of American operatives who secretly take over the world's largest dark money fund--"a gripping thriller that takes you into the world of New York hedge funds, Russian money launderers, and DC power politics that] makes you feel like you're actually there" (Bill Browder, author of Red Notice).

When a US airdrop of billions of dollars disap-pears in the desert sands of Syria, only a small group of military operatives knows its ultimate destination or why it has been stolen. Their goal is no less than the restoration of America's geopolitical dominance on the global stage. Essential to this scheme are Greta Webb, a sophisticated CIA operative who is an expert on dark money, not to mention lethally skilled in hand-to-hand combat, and Elias Vicker, the damaged, dangerous soul who runs the world's largest hedge fund.

To achieve its goals, the group must form dangerous alliances. One is with the hidden family that manages the largest private pool of capital that has ever existed. Another is with Fyodor Volk, the ruthless founder of Russia's most successful private military company, a mercenary with ties to Vladimir Putin. Volk has his eye on Greta. She would be wise to avoid him but cannot.

Arcing from Manhattan's finest apartments to Washington, DC, from Middle Eastern war zones to private European bank vaults, Jay Newman's Undermoney follows the Americans as they are enmeshed in the world of dark money and confront ever-increasing danger. Ultimately, they must decide whether their objectives are worth the cost of sacrificing not just a few but potentially many human lives. "Unexpectedly timely" (The New Yorker), Undermoney is a "wildly entertaining peek behind the curtain of American politics, financial skullduggery, and high-stakes global conflict" (Nelson DeMille).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982156023
• ISBN13: 9781982156022
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Dirty Money Makes the World Go Round

Jay Newman's Under Money is fiction, but it reads like a document someone wasn't supposed to release. The convergence it maps is real enough to be unsettling: hedge fund capital looking for yield, governments that can't act, private military that can, criminal enterprises that move faster and more decisively than any legitimate institution. Newman's statistic, that criminal activity may account for roughly ten percent of the global economy, lands less as data point than as threshold crossed. At that scale, crime isn't the shadow economy. It's load-bearing. What the novel does well is refuse the comfortable separation between clean hands and dirty ones. The people trying to do good here get compromised. Not because they are weak, but because the system requires it. At some point, everyone in the room has crossed a line to get there. Enjoyable is the wrong word. Clarifying is closer.