#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
New York Times finance editor David Enrich's explosive
exposé of the most scandalous bank in the world, revealing its shadowy
ties to Donald Trump, Putin's Russia, and Nazi Germany
"A jaw-dropping financial thriller" --Philadelphia Inquirer
UPDATED WITH NEW REVELATIONS FOLLOWING THE SUPREME COURT'S LANDMARK
RULING ON TRUMP V. DEUTSCHE BANK
On a rainy Sunday in 2014, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was found
hanging in his London apartment. Bill Broeksmit had helped build the
150-year-old financial institution into a global colossus, and his
sudden death was a mystery, made more so by the bank's efforts to deter
investigation. Broeksmit, it turned out, was a man who knew too much.
In Dark Towers, award-winning journalist David Enrich reveals the
truth about Deutsche Bank and its epic path of devastation. Tracing the
bank's history back to its propping up of a default-prone American
developer in the 1880s, helping the Nazis build Auschwitz, and wooing
Eastern Bloc authoritarians, he shows how in the 1990s, via a succession
of hard-charging executives, Deutsche made a fateful decision to pursue
Wall Street riches, often at the expense of ethics and the law.
Soon, the bank was manipulating markets, violating international
sanctions to aid terrorist regimes, scamming investors, defrauding
regulators, and laundering money for Russian oligarchs. Ever desperate
for an American foothold, Deutsche also started doing business with a
self-promoting real estate magnate nearly every other bank in the world
deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next twenty years,
Deutsche executives loaned billions to Trump, the Kushner family, and an
array of scandal-tarred clients, including convicted sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein.
Dark Towers is the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became
the global face of financial recklessness and criminality--the corporate
equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction. It is also the story of a
man who was consumed by fear of what he'd seen at the bank--and his
son's obsessive search for the secrets he kept.