**The second Great Depression is coming. The world's economies are
groaning under too much debt. If one thing goes wrong, the entire
rickety system collapses.
**
Now, acclaimed award-winning New York Times bestselling novelist
David Hagberg and renowned financial reporter Lawrence Light have
combined forces to dramatize--hour by hour--how this all-too-real
catastrophe could go down in Crash.
With debt-burdened governments and businesses worldwide about to go
bust, a cabal of Wall Street big shots plot to destroy the globe's stock
exchanges. To provide that one thing that goes wrong. In 24 hours, a
powerful computer worm will smash the exchanges and spark an
international panic, pushing a debt-laden world into the abyss. The Wall
Street gang's investment bank will be the last one standing, able to
make a killing amid the ruins.
But one person, who works for their bank as a computer expert, spots the
worm embedded deep in its network. Cassy Levin invents a program to
destroy the cyber-intruder. Angered by Cassy's discovery, her bosses
order her kidnapping.
Her boyfriend, a former Navy SEAL, is alarmed at Cassy's disappearance
and unravels the plot. Ben Whalen only has until the next morning to
save the woman he loves and prevent the economic apocalypse.
This story is based on the genuine threat posed by towering debt, which
will make the 2008 financial crisis look puny.
