Too Big to Jail, 9781529065077
Paperback
HSBC’s dark secret: laundering money for drug lords, nobody jailed.

Too Big to Jail

hsbc and the banking scandal of the century

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    9 October 2023

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Summary

Too Big to Jail: HSBC, El Chapo, and the Blood Money Scandal

‘Packed with insights and details that will both amaze and appal you’ - Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland and Butler to the World

From journalist Chris Blackhurst, Too Big to Jail unveils how HSBC facilitated mass money laundering schemes for brutal drug kingpins and rogue nations - and thereby helped to grow one of the deadliest drugs empires the world has ever seen.

While HSBC likes to sell it…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529065077
ISBN-10:1529065070
Author:Chris Blackhurst
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Macmillan
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:9 October 2023
Weight:224g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 21mm
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Critics Review

The sheer hubris, greed and arrogance of bankers is laid bare in shocking, and at times hilarious, detail. Blackhurst takes them on and pricks their bubble of self-congratulatory entitlement – Andrew Neil, broadcaster and former editor of The Sunday TimesPacked with insights and details that will both amaze and appal you. This is the inside story of how the City of London really operates and if it doesn’t make you angry, you need to check your pulse – Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland and Butler to the World

Full of extraordinary revelations. Epic story-telling about a shocking scandal. Read this!

– Iain Martin, author of Making It HappenBlackhurst’s tale would make an exciting novel. But alarmingly, this is a true story, carefully researched and told with gusto – Baroness Patience Wheatcroft, former editor of The Sunday TelegraphBlackhurst’s attention to detail is excellent, as is his lucid analysis * The Australian *Highly entertaining … told with pace, gusto, and a strong sense of moral outrage * The Critic Magazine *

About The Author

Chris Blackhurst

Chris Blackhurst is an award-winning business writer and commentator. He is a former editor of The Independent and for ten years was City editor of the Evening Standard. Before that he worked for The Sunday Times on its business pages and Insight investigative team. He covered Westminster for several years for The Independent, and for twenty years conducted the main interviews in Management Today magazine with senior business and financial figures. His journalism has appeared in many of the world’s major publications. Too Big to Jail is Blackhurst’s first book.

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